ARC :: Modern History

Component: Option 21: Albert Speer 1905–1981

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Question 13

Written Paper Section III Question 13 - 2006 HSC

Outline the main features in the background and rise to prominence of a twentieth- century personality. Evaluate the extent history presents us with a balanced interpretation of this personality.

Student Responses (15)

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Question 13bi

Written Paper Section II Question 13bi - 2002 HSC

Describe significant events in the career of Albert Speer.

Student Responses (3)

Band 4/5 response 1 Band 2/3 response 1 Band 1/2 response 1

Question 13bi

Written Paper Section II Question 13bi - 2001 HSC

Outline the major events in the career of Albert Speer from 1931 to 1945.

Student Responses (15)

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Question 13bii

Written Paper Section II Question 13bii - 2002 HSC

Assess Speer's role in the Nazi war effort from 1941 onwards.

Student Responses (3)

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Question 13bii

Written Paper Section II Question 13bii - 2001 HSC

Assess Albert Speer's role in the Nazi war machine.

Component: Option A - Anglo-Irish Relations 1968–1998

Question 14b

Written Paper Question 14b - 2006 HSC

To what extent did conflict produce an effective popular movement in support of the peace process in the 1980s and 1990s?

Question 26b

Written Paper Section III Question 26b - 2002 HSC

Discuss the consequences of British Government policies in Northern Ireland on the Provisional IRA (Provos) and/or Loyalist forces between 1972 and 1998.

Component: Option B - Conflict in Europe 1935–1945

Question 15a

Written Paper Section IV Question 15a - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that Hitler and Mussolini were primarily responsible for the tensions that led to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939.

Question 15b

Written Paper Section IV Question 15b - 2006 HSC

To what extent was the Soviet Union (Russia) responsible for the Allied victory in the conflict in Europe?

Component: Option B: China 1927-1949

Question 5a

Written Paper Question 5a - 2006 HSC

Account for the difficulty in achieving political stability and national unification in China in the period 1927–1937.

Question 5b

Written Paper Question 5b - 2006 HSC

Assess the impact of the development of Maoism on China in the period 1934–1949.

Question 9b

Written Paper Section II Question 9b - 2002 HSC

Describe the significant events in the career of Zhu De (ChuTeh) between 1920 and 1949. Assess the contribution made by Zhu De to the success of the communist forces in the years 1934-1949.

Component: Option C - Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

Student Responses (16)

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Question 16b

Written Paper Section IV Question 16b - 2006 HSC

Assess the significance of the 1968 Tet Offensive as part of North Vietnam's strategy in achieving victory in the Second Indochina War.

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Question 25a

Written Paper Section III Question 25a - 2002 HSC

Assess the importance of anti-communism in shaping the policies of the United States towards Indochina between 1954 and 1979.

Student Responses (15)

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Question 25b

Written Paper Section III Question 25b - 2002 HSC

Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics used by soldiers in Vietnam between 1960 and 1975.

Component: Option C: Germany 1918-1939

Student Responses (16)

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Question 6a

Written Paper Section II Question 6a - 2006 HSC

Assess the importance of nationalism as a cause of the failure of democracy in Germany 1918-1934.

Question 12a

Written Paper Section II Question 12a - 2002 HSC

Assess the impact of the Nazi Party on German Society up to and including 1933.

Question 13b

Written Paper Section II Question 13b - 2002 HSC

Describe significant events in the career of Albert Speer. Assess Speer's role in the Nazi war effort from 1941 onwards.

Component: Option D - Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951

Question 17a

Written Paper Section IV Question 17a - 2006 HSC

Account for the defeat of Japan in 1945 despite its dominant strategic position in 1942.

Question 17b

Written Paper Section IV Question 17b - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that the aims of the Allied powers were achieved successfully in the Occupation of Japan in the period up to 1951.

Component: Option D: India 1919-1947

Question 7b

Written Paper Question 7b - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that communalism in the 1930s and 1940s ensured the Partition of India in 1947.

Component: Option E - The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996

Question 18a

Written Paper Section IV Question 18a - 2006 HSC

Assess the impact of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on the development of conflict in the Middle East in the period 1948–1967.

Question 24b

Written Paper Section III Question 24b - 2002 HSC

Discuss how Palestinian refugees and their organisations have responded to policies of the Israeli governments between 1964 and 1996.

Component: Option F - The Cold War 1945–1991

Question 19a

Written Paper Section IV Question 19a - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that the Korean War was the most significant crisis affecting superpower relations in the period 1948–1962.

Question 19b

Written Paper Section IV Question 19b - 2006 HSC

Assess the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on the development of the Cold War in the period 1979–1991.

Question 21a

Written Paper Section III Question 21a - 2002 HSC

Assess the importance of the American fear of communism in the development of any one Cold War crisis between 1948 and 1989.

Component: Option F: Japan 1904-1937

Question 6b

Written Paper Section II Question 6b - 2002 HSC

Account for the failure of political parties to maintain a liberal democracy in Japan from 1918 to 1932.

Component: Option G: Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1941

Question 10a

Written Paper Section II Question 10a - 2006 HSC

How significant was military victory in the Civil War for the Bolshevik consolidation of power in the period up to 1924?

Question 10a

Written Paper Section II Question 10a - 2002 HSC

Assess the impact of War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP) on both the peasantry and proletariat in Russian society between 1918 and 1928.

Question 10b

Written Paper Section II Question 10b - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that Stalinism produced positive changes for Soviet society.

Question 11a

Written Paper Section II Question 11a - 2002 HSC

Describe the significant events in the career of Alexandra Kolontai in achieving social reforms for women.

Component: Option H: South Africa 1960-1994

Question 11a

Written Paper Section II Question 11a - 2006 HSC

Evaluate the view that the apartheid ‘vision for democracy’ necessitated state terror and repression.

Question 11b

Written Paper Section II Question 11b - 2006 HSC

How significant was the role of Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement in the development of resistance to apartheid?

Question 23b

Written Paper Section III Question 23b - 2002 HSC

Evaluate the impact of the international anti-apartheid movement upon South African Society from 1962 to 1994.

Component: Option I: USA 1919-1941

Question 5b

Written Paper Section II Question 5b - 2002 HSC

Describe the significant events in the life of J Edgar Hoover from 1917 to 1941. Assess Hoover's effectiveness in combating the growing influence of gangsters in American society in the 1920s and 1930s.

Student Responses (1)

Exemplary response 1

Question 12a

Written Paper Section II Question 12a - 2006 HSC

To what extent was the Great Depression a result of Republican economic policies in the 1920s?

Student Responses (1)

Exemplary response 1

Question 12b

Written Paper Section II Question 12b - 2006 HSC

How accurate is it to describe America’s foreign policy as isolationist in the period 1919–1941?

Component: World War I 1914-1919

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Question 2

Written Paper Section I Question 2 - 2001 HSC

Extent of success by Allies and Germans in using technology to break the stalemate on the Western Front.

Student Responses (16)

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Question 2-3

Written Paper Section I Question 2-3 - 2006 HSC

Source material: reason for USA's declaration of war on Germany; Germany's ability to send massive reinforcements to the west; Lloyd George's view on the war at crisis point; significance of US entry into World War 1; usefulness of sources for an historian studying the impact of total war on the home fronts during World War 1.

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Question 3

Written Paper Section I Question 3 - 2001 HSC

Assessment of usefulness of sources for an historian studying the Allies' approaches to Germany at the Paris Peace Conference.

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Question 7

Written Paper Question 7 - 2010 HSC

Using own knowledge and source material, explain why it was difficult to evacuate wounded men from the trenches.

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Question 8

Written Paper Section I Question 8 - 2010 HSC

Using own knowledge and source materials, outline how experiences of trench warfare changed soldiers' attitudes to the war over time.

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Question 9

Written Paper Section I Question 9 - 2010 HSC

Evaluate the usefulness and reliability of source material for an historian studying the different goals of Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson in creating the Treaty of Versailles.