Band

Band 4/5

Component: Option 21: Albert Speer 1905–1981

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.

Question 13bi

Written Paper Section II Question 13bi - 2002 HSC

Describe significant events in the career of Albert Speer.

Question 13bi

Written Paper Section II Question 13bi - 2001 HSC

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

Question 13bii

Written Paper Section II Question 13bii - 2002 HSC

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

Component: Option C - Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979

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.

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

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.

Component: World War I 1914-1919

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.