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Practice Paper 2 Authoritarian Exam QuestionsPaper 2 is an essay paper based on 12 world history topics of which students study?two??topics, Authoritarian States and the Cold War. Each topic gives you a choice of two questions to answer and you have to answer two exam questions, one?for the Cold War, and one for Authoritarian States.?Paper 2 is 1 hour 30 minutes in duration which gives you 45 minutes per essay question. The maximum mark for this paper is 30 marks, 15 marks per essay. To practice, try these exam essay questions from past papers:May 2018Compare and contrast the importance of propaganda to the emergence of?two?authoritarian states.?To what extent was authoritarian control achieved in?two?20th-century states?May?2017"The conditions in which authoritarian states emerged were mainly determined by economic factors." Discuss with reference to?two??authoritarian pare and contrast the methods used to maintain power in?two??authoritarian states, each from a different region.Nov 2017To what extent did economic factors contribute to the emergence of?two?authoritarian states, each from a different region?"The maintenance of power was dependent on the successful control of opposition." Discuss with reference to?two?authoritarian leaders.WARNING! The questions below are from the old specification. The new specification for students starting in 2015 will only give two question choices for each topic. New style questions WILL NOT refer to specific leaders! Instead, the questions will be more general and will allow you to use a range of case studies and leaders as evidence.2016To what extent did popular support for the aims and ideology of one authoritarian / single-party leader contribute to the rise to power of that leader??Compare and contrast the conditions that led to the rise to power of two authoritarian / single-party leaders.Evaluate the treatment of religious groups and minorities in two authoritarian / single-party states, each chosen from a different region.?To what extent did the structure and organization of government in Germany between 1933 and 1939 contribute to Hitler’s maintenance of power??Examine the role of education and propaganda in the maintenance of power in Mao’s China.?With reference to Castro (Cuba) or Nasser (Egypt), to what extent did the use of force contribute to his maintenance of power?2015Evaluate the importance of ideology, popular support and the weakness of the existing governmentin aiding the rise to power of?either?Mao?or?Peron.To what extent were existing social and economic problems the most significant factor in the rise topower of?two?authoritarian or single-party leaders?To what extent was Hitler’s Germany a totalitarian state?Compare and contrast the impact on the arts of?two?authoritarian or single-party states.With reference to Castro?or?Nasser?or?Stalin, to what extent did his domestic policies contribute tohis maintenance of power?Discuss the methods used to maintain political control by?two?authoritarian/single-party leaders,each chosen from a different region.2014Examine the importance of each of the following in the rise to power of?either?Stalin?or?Hitler:?popular support for their aims; underestimation by opponents; economic pare and contrast the economic and social policies of?two?of the following: Mao; Nasser; Castro.With reference to?two?authoritarian or single-party states, each chosen from a different region,evaluate the effectiveness of the methods used to deal with opposition.With reference to?two?authoritarian or single-party states, each chosen from a different region, evaluatethe impact of domestic policies on the status of women.To what extent was Nyerere successful in achieving his domestic policy aims in Tanzania?“The use of force was the most important factor in the maintenance of power of the authoritarian orsingle-party leader.” With reference to?two?authoritarian or single-party leaders, to what extent doyou agree with this statement?2013“Ideological appeal was less important than social and economic distress in the rise to power ofsingle-party leaders.” With reference to?two?single-party leaders, each chosen from a different region,to what extent do you agree with this statement?With reference to?one?totalitarian state, analyse the nature and extent of domestic opposition and the?methods used to deal with such pare and contrast the economic and social policies of?two?of the following: Nasser; Castro;Nyerere.Assess the importance of?each?of the following in the rise to power of Stalin: errors made by rivals;the use of propaganda; popular support.In what ways, and with what results, was the status of women affected by the policies of?eitherHitler?or?Mao?Analyse the impact of single-party rule upon the arts in?two?single-party states, each chosen from adifferent region.2012With reference to?two?leaders, each chosen from a different region, assess how ideology?and?popular support contributed to their rise to power.To what extent did social and economic policies help to maintain the power of?either?Nasser?or?Perón?Compare and contrast the treatment of minorities in?two?authoritarian or single-party states, each chosen from a different region.Define "totalitarianism" and assess the extent to which it was achieved in Hitler’s GermanyAnalyse the methods used by?either?Castro?or?Sukarno to deal with opposition."In the twentieth century, the rise to power of authoritarian and single-party leaders was due mainly to their use of force." To what extent do you agree with this statement2011In what ways, and with what success, did?either?Sukarno?or?Nasser deal with domestic challengesafter gaining power?In what ways, and with what success, did?one?authoritarian?or?single-party ruler deal with internaloppositionTo what extent was the maintenance of power by?either?Mao?or?Castro a result of successfuleconomic policies?“The rise to power of authoritarian or single-party leaders depended upon the use of force rather thanpopular support.” With reference to?two?leaders, each chosen from a different region, to what extentdo you agree with this statement?Compare and contrast the status and treatment of women?or?minorities in?two?authoritarian orsingle-party states, each chosen from a different region.Assess the role of each of the following in the rise to power of Stalin?and?Hitler: ideological appeal;underestimation by opponents; propaganda.2010Analyse the conditions that enabled?one?left-wing leader to become the ruler of a single-party state.Discuss (a) the ideology of, and (b) the support for,?one?right-wing ruler of a single-party pare and contrast the domestic policies of?two?of the following: Castro; Kenyatta; StalinEvaluate the methods used by?either?Perón?or?Nasser to maintain power.Examine the role of education in?one?single-party or authoritarian state.In what ways, and to what extent, was propaganda important in the rise and rule of Hitler?2009Analyse the methods used by?either?Castro?or?Perón to obtain power."The aims and policies of single-party state rulers rarely followed their declared ideology." To what extent do you agree with this assertion?Evaluate the domestic policies of?either?Hitler?orNasser.?For what reasons, and with what success, did rulers of single-party states use foreign policy to maintain their power? At least?two?rulers should be considered.In what ways did?two?rulers of single-party states, each chosen from a different region, (a) use, and (b) misuse, the arts and education??For what reasons, and with what results, did rulers of single-party states both support and censor the arts??2008Compare and contrast the rise to power of?two?rulers of single-party states, each chosen from adifferent region.To what extent was?either?Mussolini, between 1922 and 1945,?or?Nasser, between 1954 and 1970,successful in achieving his aims?In what ways did?one?ruler of a single-party state try to use education to support his regime?Analyse the successes and failures of the political career of?either?Lenin?or?Nyerere.Assess the importance of foreign policy for rulers of single-party states.To what extent was the ruler of?one?single-party state successful in achieving his aims? ................
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