OCR A-Level History Unit 2 non-British period study overview quiz quiz

AO2 only

AO1 only

AO3 only

All three AOs

A source enquiry comparing four contemporary primary sources

Two thematic essays selected from a choice of three options

One two-part question chosen from two

A coursework essay submitted as non-examined assessment

Because the Tsar voluntarily abdicated the throne in both 1905 and again in 1917

Because there was no organised political opposition to the regime at all in 1905

Because the October Manifesto was a complete failure that satisfied nobody at all in 1905

Because the army stayed loyal in 1905 but the war had destroyed its loyalty by 1917

'Peace, Bread, Land' and 'All Power to the Soviets'

'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' borrowed from the French Revolution

'Socialism in One Country', the slogan Stalin adopted years later

'Workers of the World Unite' taken from the Communist Manifesto

The Five Year Plans for rapid heavy industrialisation

Collectivisation and forced grain procurement

The Great Terror and the mass purges of the party

The Russo-Japanese War of the early twentieth century

By decisively winning an outright majority of all the seats in the Reichstag elections

By a violent armed seizure of power and a coup against the state

Through the intrigue of conservative elites who thought they could control him

By a nationwide popular referendum that directly elected him to office

The army to take direct control over the running of the government

The immediate banning and dissolution of the Nazi Party in Germany

A guarantee of free, fair and regular multiparty elections to continue

Hitler to legislate without the Reichstag or the President

Whether it relied on terror alone or on a combination of terror and consent

Whether it relied chiefly on the regular army or on the German navy

Whether the regime was actually ruled by Hitler or in fact by Goebbels

Whether the Nazi state was genuinely a functioning parliamentary democracy at heart

An evaluation of a set of contemporary primary sources

An assessment of the significance of one named factor

An essay comparing two competing historical interpretations

A detailed plan for the non-examined coursework essay

Split the hour exactly equally between the two parts of the question

Spend the entire hour on part (a) and leave part (b) unanswered

About a third on part (a) and two thirds on part (b)

Spend the whole hour on part (b) and skip part (a) altogether