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PP-DSE
HIST
PAPER 2
HONG KONG EXAMINATIONS AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY
HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION
PRACTICE PAPER
HISTORY PAPER 2
(1 hour 15 minutes)
This paper must be answered in English
INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper consists of seven essay-type questions, of which you may attempt any two.
2. Where a question is divided into a number of sub-questions, you MUST divide your answer into different parts accordingly. You risk mark penalties if you do not do so.
3. Write your answers in the answer book. Start each question (not sub-question) on a new page.
Not to betaken away before the end of the examination session |
PP-DSE-HIST 2–1 1
Answer any two questions.
1. ‘Hong Kong’s economic development in the second half of the 20th century was primarily shaped by the China factor.’ Do you agree? Explain your answer. (15 marks)
2. Account for the rise of militarism in Japan in the 1930s. (15 marks)
3. In what ways was the year 1949 a turning point of modern Chinese history? (15 marks)
4. Examine how the Paris Peace Settlements (1919-23) established a new international order. (15 marks)
5. Assess the significance of Gorbachev relative to other factors which brought about the end of the Cold War. (15 marks)
6. Discuss the roles the United Nations played in settling the racial conflicts in the Balkans and conflicts between Israel and the Arabs. (15 marks)
7. Choose any one country or region covered by the course, and discuss to what extent this country/region in the late 20th century was different from what it had been in the early 20th century. (15 marks)
END OF PAPER
Sources of materials used in this paper will be acknowledged in the Hong Kong Diploma Secondary Education Examination Practice Papers published by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority at a later stage.
PP-DSE-HIST 2–2 2
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Acknowledgements
本 專 輯 的 試 題 曾 引 用 下 列 刊 物 ∕ 網 站 的 資 料 :
Material from the following publications/web-sites has been used in question papers in this volume:
Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Hutchison Education
www.enotes.com
www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en
www.time.com
www.youtube.com
Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert M. Craig , Japan: Tradition and Transformation (Revised Edition), USA:1989
Peter Mantin, Questions of Evidence: The Twentieth Century World , USA: 1987
Nikita Khrushchev, ‘Excerpt from Nikita Khrushchev s’ “Peace and Progress Must Triumph in Our Time” published in Soviet Booklets’,
<http://www.enotes.com/cold-war-primary-sources/nikita-khrushchev-excerpt-fro m-peace-progress-must>, 1959
‘Cold War Cartoons – The World We Live in’,
<http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M965.199.9807>, 1950
Time Magazine,
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807086,00.html>,14 March 1955
「紅衛兵戰歌」, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ws8cKFVcM>
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