EXAM QUESTIONS

January 2006 Exam Questions.

Nazi Germany module ( 2582)

Theme was anti-semitism and the Final Solution

Personal Rule and Civil War 1629 (2583)

1. Who was more responsible for the outbreak of the civil war in 1642, Charles1 or the parliamentary opposition? Explain your answer

      2.  Assess the claim that the most important reason for the execution of Charles 1 ( 1649) was his unwillingness to compromise with his opponents from 1646.

USSR 1924-53

1. How successful were the Five Year Plans?
2. How successfully did Stalin organize the defence of the USSR in the period from 1939 to 1945?

CROMWELL 

1. Compare the views in the passages on Cromwell as a politician before and during the First Civil War.
2. Using the passages and own knowledge assess the qualities that brought Cromwell to prominence during the First Civil War.
3. How far do you agree that, for the years 1648-1653 Cromwell should be remembered as a ‘brave, bad man’.
4. To what extent did Cromwell’s rule become increasingly conservative from 1653 to 1658?

RUSSIAN SYNOPTIC PAPER

1. How far do you agree that the assassination of Tsar Alexander 11 in 1881 was the most important turning-point in the development of Russian government in the period from 1855 to 1956?

2.‘The need to modernize their backward economy was the most important reason why the rulers of Russia introduced reforms.’  How far do you agree with this view of the period from 1855 to 1956?

3.  How far do you agree that a study of Russian governments in the period from 1855 to 1956 suggests that Russia simply exchanged one form of autocracy for another after 1917?