YIJC Prelim 2025 QP

YISHUN INNOVA JUNIOR COLLEGE JC 2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Higher 1 CANDIDATE NAME CG INDEX NO HISTORY Paper 1 Shaping the International Order (1945-2000) No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST 8838/01 3 September 2025 3 hours An answer booklet will be provided with this question paper. If you need additional answer paper, ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. Write your name, class and question number on the answer booklet provided. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. The number of marks is given in the brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part

question. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page. ©YIJC 2 Section A You must answer Question 1. The Road to the End of Cold War 1 Read the sources and answer the questions which follow. Source A This treaty, and all that we have achieved during this summit is an understanding that will help keep peace as we work toward the ultimate goal of our foreign policy: a world where the people of every land can decide for themselves their form of government and way of life. We've dealt not just with arms control issues but also with fundamental problems such as Soviet expansionism, human rights violations, as well as our own moral opposition to the ideology that justifies such practices. Mr. Gorbachev and I agreed that we must redouble our efforts to reach agreements on reducing the levels of U.S. and Soviet long-range, or strategic, nuclear arms, as I have proposed in the START negotiations. Now, I believe deep reductions in these offensive weapons, along with the development of SDI, would do much to make the world safer. For that reason, I made it clear that our SDI program will continue which is a defense against offensive missiles, and by going for arms reduction rather than just arms control, we're moving away from the so-called policy of mutual assured destruction, by which nations hold each other hostage to nuclear terror and destruction. An extract from President Reagan’s address to the US public on 10 December 1987 after the Soviet-US Summit with Gorbachev in Washington. Source B Our aim is to prioritise disarmament, the elimination of the nuclear threat, the reduction of global tensions and confrontations, and the strengthening of new approaches to international relations. This was indeed achieved during the talks. The key outcome of the Washington visit was the signing of a treaty eliminating two classes of nuclear missiles. However, calls from some in the United States to halt the disarmament process are growing louder. Some even claim that the talks resolved differences over SDI, using this as a pretext to

accelerate work on the programme. These are dangerous tendencies that must not be underestimated, as they risk undermining the fragile progress towards demilitarising international relations. We hope that the United States, the Soviet Union, and all nations wil