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HISTORY 2
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INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
1. This question paper consists of SECTION A and SECTION B based on the
prescribed content framework as contained in the CAPS document.
SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1: THE COLD WAR: THE EXTENSION OF THE COLD WAR
QUESTION 2: INDEPENDENT AFRICA: CASE STUDY – ANGOLA
QUESTION 3: CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS FROM THE 1950s TO THE
1970s: THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS
QUESTION 4: THE COLD WAR: CASE STUDY – VIETNAM
QUESTION 5: INDEPENDENT AFRICA: CASE STUDY – THE CONGO
QUESTION 6: CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS FROM THE 1950s TO THE
1970s: THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
2. SECTION A consists of THREE source-based questions. The source material
that is required to answer these questions can be found in the ADDENDUM.
3. SECTION B consists of THREE essay questions.
4. Answer THREE questions as follows:
4.1 At least ONE must be a source-based question and at least ONE must
be an essay question.
4.2 The THIRD question can be either a source-based question or an essay
question.
5. You are advised to spend at least ONE hour per question.
6. When answering the questions, you should apply your knowledge, skills and
insight.
7. You will be disadvantaged by merely rewriting the sources as answers.
8. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this
question paper.
9. Write neatly and legibly.
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SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS
Answer at least ONE question but NOT more than TWO questions in this
SECTION. Source material that is required to answer these questions is contained
in the ADDENDUM.
QUESTION 1: HOW DID THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL AND INFLUENCE
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
SOVIET UNION CONTRIBUTE TO COLD WAR TENSIONS IN
EUROPE FROM 1947?
Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that follow.
1.1 Read Source 1A.
1.1.1 According to the source, when did Kennan’s ideas, which became the
basis of the Truman administration’s foreign policy, first come to public
attention? (1 x 1) (1)
1.1.2 Define the concept containment in your own words. (1 x 2) (2)
1.1.3 Explain what is implied by the statement, “he called for countering
‘Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world’” in
the context of the United States’ strategy. (2 x 2) (4)
1.1.4 Comment on why you think Soviet expansion was regarded as a
threat to the major centres of industrial power in the world. (2 x 2) (4)
1.2 Consult Source 1B.
1.2.1 According to the source, what does the foreign policy of the United
States reflect? (1 x 2) (2)
1.2.2 Quote THREE ways from the source that explain how the plans for
expansion by the United States were developed and implemented.
(3 x 1) (3)
1.2.3 Explain the concept foreign policy in the context of the USSR during
the Cold War. (1 x 2) (2)
1.2.4 Comment on the usefulness of this source to a historian researching
the expansionist policy of the United States. (2 x 2) (4)
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1.3 Refer to Sources 1A and 1B. Explain how the information in Source 1A differs
from the evidence in Source 1B regarding the USSR’s foreign policy. (2 x 2) (4)
1.4 Refer to Source 1C.
1.4.1 According to the source, what were the conditions in Europe like when
World War II ended in 1945? (2 x 1) (2)
1.4.2 Name the Act that President Truman passed in 1948. (1 x 2) (2)
1.4.3 Explain why you think President Harry Truman sent a message to
Congress to provide economic aid to Europe in December 1947. (1 x 2) (2)
1.4.4 Mention TWO provisions in the source that enabled European recovery.
(2 x 1) (2)
1.5 Use Source 1D.
1.5.1 Explain why you would consider the title: "Step on it, Doc?" to be an
appropriate caption for the cartoon. (1 x 2) (2)
1.5.2 Why do you think communism is depicted as a vulture in the cartoon?
(1 x 2) (2)
1.5.3 Use the information from the source and your own knowledge to explain
how the US Congress responded to the danger of communism as shown
in the cartoon. (2 x 2) (4)
1.6 Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write a
paragraph of about EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining how the struggle for
control and influence between the United States of America and the Soviet
Union contributed to Cold War tensions in Europe from 1947. (8)
[50]
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QUESTION 2: WHY WAS THE OUTCOME OF THE BATTLE OF CUITO
CUANAVALE SIGNIFICANT IN INFLUENCING THE POLITICAL
LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGION FROM 1987
TO 1990?
Study Sources 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D and answer the questions that follow.
2.1 Read Source 2A.
2.1.1 List the THREE colonels involved in the meeting known as "The Night
of the Three Colonels". (3 x 1) (3)
2.1.2 What according to the source, did General Rafael Del Pino Diaz regard
as the best tactic that needed to be used to stop FAPLA from
advancing to Mavinga? (1 x 2) (2)
2.1.3 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge, explain
why the CIA decided to assist the South African government at Cuito
Cuanavale. (1 x 2) (2)
2.1.4 Quote evidence from the source which suggests that the South African
government did not approve the colonel's first plan to stop the
Cuban/FAPLA forces from advancing. (1 x 2) (2)
2.1.5 Comment on how the international perception of South Africa’s policies
influenced its military decisions during the conflict. (2 x 2) (4)
2.2 Use Source 2B.
2.2.1 Identify the THREE areas that the Cuban/FAPLA front stretched
across. (3 x 1) (3)
2.2.2 Provide evidence from the source, explaining why Fidel Castro
exercised restraint and avoided marching into Namibia. (1 x 2) (2)
2.2.3 Define the term liberated in the context of the Angolan Civil War.
(1 x 2) (2)
2.2.4 Comment on the implication of the statement: “Reading the Cubans is
yet another art form. They are prepared for both war and peace.”
regarding the Cubans’ approach during the Angolan Civil War. (1 x 2) (2)
2.2.5 Explain why a historian would consider this source reliable regarding
the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. (2 x 2) (4)
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2.3 Refer to Source 2C.
2.3.1 Quote evidence from the source that indicates that this battle was the last
ideological conflict of the Cold War. (1 x 2) (2)
2.3.2 Using the information from the source and your own knowledge, explain
how the outcome at Cuito Cuanavale served as a turning point for the
following countries:
(a) Angola (1 x 2) (2)
(b) South Africa (1 x 2) (2)
2.3.3 Explain how Cuba can be seen as a reliable partner in the developing
world through its role in the Angolan Civil War. (1 x 2) (2)
2.4 Study Source 2D.
2.4.1 Define the term solidarity in your own words. (1 x 2) (2)
2.4.2 What message is the leaflet conveying regarding the outcome of the
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale? (1 x 2) (2)
2.5 Refer to Sources 2C and 2D. Explain how the information in Source 2C supports
the evidence in Source 2D regarding the political objectives of SWAPO for
Namibia. (2 x 2) (4)
2.6 Using the information from the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write
a paragraph of about EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining why the outcome
of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale was significant in influencing the political
landscape of the Southern African region from 1987 to 1990. (8)
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PLEASE DETACH THIS
ADDENDUM OF 14 PAGES.
PREPARATORY EXAMINATION
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ADDENDUM
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HISTORY ADDENDUM 2
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QUESTION 1: HOW DID THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL AND INFLUENCE
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
SOVIET UNION CONTRIBUTE TO COLD WAR TENSIONS IN
EUROPE FROM 1947?
SOURCE 1A
The source below is taken from US Department of State archives. It explains the
8 000-word telegram by George Kennan, an American diplomat living in Moscow,
which was sent to President Truman’s State Department. Kennan’s Long Telegram
formed the basis of American policy towards the Soviet Union from 1947.
George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of
“containment,” the basic United States strategy for fighting the Cold War (1947 – 1989)
with the Soviet Union. Kennan’s ideas, which became the basis of the Truman
administration’s foreign policy, first came to public attention in 1947 in the form of an
anonymous contribution to the journal Foreign Affairs, the so-called “X-Article.” “The
main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union,” Kennan wrote,
“must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian
expansive tendencies.” To that end, he called for countering “Soviet pressure against
the free institutions of the Western world” through the “adroit (skilful) and vigilant
(watchful) application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical
and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers (operations) of Soviet
policy.” Such a policy, Kennan predicted, would “promote tendencies which must
eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet
power.”
Kennan’s policy was controversial from the very beginning. Columnist, Walter
Lippmann, attacked the X-Article for failing to differentiate between vital and peripheral
(outlying) interests. The United States, Kennan’s article implied, should face down the
Soviet Union and its Communist allies whenever and wherever they posed a risk of
gaining influence. In fact, Kennan advocated defending, above all else, the world’s
major centres of industrial power against Soviet expansion: Western Europe, Japan,
and the United States …
[Source: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/17601.htm. Accessed on 28 March 2025.]
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SOURCE 1B
The source below is an extract from Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the
United States between April 1946 and October 1947. In September 1946 Novikov
reported to Moscow in response to George Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’.
The foreign policy of the United States, which reflects the imperialist tendencies of
American monopolistic (sole control) capital, is characterised in the post-war period by
a striving for world supremacy. This is the real meaning of the many statements by
President Truman and other representatives of American ruling circles: that the United
States has the right to lead the world. All the forces of American diplomacy – the Army,
the Air Force, the Navy, industry and science – are enlisted in the service of this foreign
policy.
For this purpose, broad plans for expansion have been developed and are being
implemented through diplomacy and the establishment of a system of naval and air
bases stretching far beyond the boundaries of the United States, through the arms
race, and through the creation of ever newer types of weapons …
The enormous relative weight of the USSR in international affairs in general, and in
European countries in particular, the independence of its foreign policy, and the
economic and political assistance that it provides to neighbouring countries, both allies
and former enemies, have led to the growth of the political influence of the Soviet
Union in these countries and to the further strengthening of democratic tendencies in
them. Such a situation [is] regarded by the American imperialists as an obstacle in the
path of the expansionist policy of the United States …
[Source: https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/novikov-responds-long-telegram-1946/
Accessed on 27 March 2025.]
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SOURCE 1C
The source below is from the general records of the United States government. It
outlines how the USA wanted to contain the spread of communism in Europe.
… When World War II ended in 1945, Europe lay in ruins: its cities were shattered;
its economies were devastated; its people faced famine. In the two years after the
war, the Soviet Union’s control of Eastern Europe and the vulnerability of Western
European countries to Soviet expansionism heightened the sense of crisis.
To meet this emergency, the Secretary of State George Marshall proposed in a
speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, that European nations create a plan
for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic
assistance.
On December 19, 1947, President Harry Truman sent Congress a message that
followed Marshall’s ideas to provide economic aid to Europe. Congress
overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948,
President Truman signed the act which became known as the Marshall Plan.
Over the next four years, Congress appropriated (allocated) $13,3 billion for
European recovery. This aid provided much-needed capital and materials that
enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.
For the United States, the Marshall Plan provided markets for American goods,
created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable
democratic governments in Western Europe. Congress’s approval of the Marshall
Plan signalled an extension of the bipartisanship (collaborating parties) of World War
II into the post-war years.
[Source: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/marshall-plan.
Accessed on 29 March 2025.]
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SOURCE 1D
The cartoon below is titled “STEP ON IT, DOC!” by Roy Justus. It appeared in the
Minneapolis Star newspaper on 29 November 1947. It depicts the US strategy of the
policy of containment.
[Source: https://moorhistory.weebly.com/development--impact-of-the-cold-war-containment.html.
Accessed on 28 March 2025.]
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QUESTION 2: WHY WAS THE OUTCOME OF THE BATTLE OF CUITO
CUANAVALE SIGNIFICANT IN INFLUENCING THE POLITICAL
LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGION FROM
1987 TO 1990?
SOURCE 2A
The source below is taken from a book by a British foreign correspondent, F
Bridgland, titled The War for Africa – Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent. It
outlines why the South African government decided to assist UNITA at Cuito
Cuanavale, Angola.
It was at this stage – late June, early July – that SADF operational commanders
submitted proposals to Defence Headquarters, Pretoria to counter the
FAPLA/Cuban build-up. The meeting, between Harris, Oelsig and the officer
commanding the SADF’s north-west Namibian sector, Colonel Piet Muller, at
Harris’ field HQ south of the Lomba River, became known as ‘The Night of the
Three Colonels’. It was a long and traumatic night with a lot of heavy arguing. The
favoured plan of the ’three colonels’ involved sending a major battle group from
Namibia northwards along the western bank of the Cuito River, attacking Cuito
Cuanavale from behind, and controlling the narrow road from Menongue along
which logistics were being ferried to the brigades.
By now the CIA was sending the SADF intelligence assessments on the
FAPLA/Cuban build-up, based on the debriefing of General Rafael Del Pino Diaz,
in Virginia, after his defection from Cuba which was almost concluded. Del Pino’s
advice was that cutting the Menongue-Cuito Cuanavale supply road was the best
and most logical way of stopping the offensive.
That decision was made at the highest level by the State President P W Botha.
His fear, and that of his cabinet, was of the international outcry that would follow if
regular South African troops were perceived to be fighting several hundred
kilometres inside Angola. South Africa was already under heavy international
pressure, in the form of sanctions, disinvestment and boycotts of various kinds,
over its domestic race laws and the denial of the vote to the black majority. Few
countries would be disposed (willing) to understand the presence of a major South
African military force in the territory of a sovereign black African state: instead, it
would be used as another stick to beat a country trying desperately to re-establish
international respectability. The South African cabinet instead approved the
commanders’ secondary plan: a thrust into the area east of the Cuito River to
prevent FAPLA from capturing UNITA’s strategic stronghold of Mavinga.
[Source: The War for Africa – Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent
by F Bridgland]
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SOURCE 2B
This source is an extract from an article from the magazine Monthly Review - An
Independent Socialist Magazine. The article is titled – Cuito Cuanavale, Angola
25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle (1 April 2013). It was written by Ronnie
Kasrils, a South African politician, former guerrilla and military commander. He
attended the Seventh Congress of the SACP that was held in Cuba in April 1989.
On his table-top model, Castro pointed out the amazing feat of a 40 000-
strong Cuban, FAPLA, and SWAPO troop deployment, a front that stretched from
Namibia on the coast, along a railway line through Lubango and Menongue, and
to Cuito Cuanavale in the east. The SADF forces at Cuito were sidelined, like a
major piece on a chessboard that has prematurely advanced, as powerful forces
(armed with the latest Soviet weaponry and under superior air cover) moved
west towards the Namibian border. Angola’s southern Cunene and
Mocamedes provinces were liberated after years of SADF control.
The Cubans could have marched into Namibia but exercised restraint. All parties,
including the United States and the Soviet Union, sought compromise and a way
forward in negotiations that had previously been going nowhere. Castro was not
looking for a bloody encounter, that would have cost many lives on both sides, and
neither were apartheid’s generals and political leaders. They could afford casualties
even less than the Cubans, considering the popular mass struggle, escalating armed
operations within South Africa by the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear
of the Nation), and a growing resistance among young white conscripts against
military service.
Because of the embargo, Chester Crocker, chief negotiator for the United States,
had to be given a special exemption to meet with Jorge Risquet, head of the Cuban
delegation. Crocker confided: “Reading the Cubans is yet another art form. They are
prepared for both war and peace. We witness considerable tactical finesse (skill) and
genuinely creative moves at the table.” His opinion of the South Africans was that
“they confused military power with national strategy.” He was dead right. For years
a military mindset had become prevalent in South Africa with the SADF generals
enjoying strong influence over the politicians. Although the generals strove to cover
up the extent of the Angolan setback and bragged about a false victory, confidence
in the SADF’s prowess (effectiveness) amongst South Africa’s political and economic
elite was ebbing (move away).
[Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/cuito-cuanavale-angola/
Accessed on 28 December 2024]
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SOURCE 2C
The source is an extract from Scientia Militaria, South African Journal of Military
Studies, Vol 37, Nr 2, 2009. The article explains the outcomes of the Battle of Cuito
Cuanavale and the impact it had on Angola, South Africa and Namibia.
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1987 and 1988 was one of the final and most significant
battles of the Cold War. The battle permanently changed the political and strategic
landscape of the Southern African region. The peace negotiations that followed in the
wake of this battle led to the withdrawal of the South African military from Angola and
Namibia, which resulted in the independence of Namibia and a negotiated settlement in
South Africa. The outcomes of the military campaigns in Angola paved the way for a
series of events that led to the achievement of the political objectives of liberation
movements in South Africa, Angola and Namibia, supported by the international
community.
These outcomes aligned with the foresight of all the major role-players in the conflict.
The apartheid regime foresaw that military involvement in Angola could not continue
forever and that Namibia had to become independent. However, peace had to be
guaranteed for this to take place.
For the liberation movements of South Africa, it was the start of fulfilling a vision of the
end of apartheid, a new democratic dispensation in South Africa, and the probability of
an end to armed hostilities.
For SWAPO and its allies, the outcomes were exactly as foreseen. Maybe some had
expected a more radical transformation towards Marxism and retribution, but most
people in Namibia were grateful for a peaceful outcome. For the major powers involved
in the Cold War, it was also an ideal outcome. Peace in Angola and Namibia contributed
to a peaceful end to the Cold War. In addition, Cuba, as a major military role-player,
could now withdraw from a situation that required extreme sacrifice from its people, but
that allowed Cuba to present itself as a reliable partner in the context of the developing
world.
[From: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0235/171d674c07cd89de1dc9482b909cc6fee1a2.pdf.
Accessed on 5 January 2025.]
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SOURCE 2D
This leaflet was designed and created by the Anti-Apartheid Movement after the Battle
of Cuito Cuanavale. The Namibia Emergency Campaign was launched by the AAM
and the Namibia Solidarity Committee to campaign for free and fair elections in
Namibia.
[Source: https://www.aamarchives.org/archive/history/namibia/nam33-namibia-on-the-road-
to-freedom.html. Accessed on 5 January 2025.]
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QUESTION 3: HOW DID THE CHILDREN’S MARCH OF BIRMINGHAM GAIN
PUBLICITY FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA (USA) IN 1963?
SOURCE 3A
The source below highlights how the Children’s Crusade changed the course of the
Birmingham Campaign of 1963.
In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was “the most segregated city in the South,” which
strictly enforced the separation of black people and white people in public spaces.
The Civil Rights Movement had lost some momentum and was in need of a victory,
so Fred Shuttlesworth’s local Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
invited Dr Martin Luther King Jr. to collaborate in “The Birmingham Campaign” or
“Project C”. The “C” stood for confrontation, nonviolent action to demand
desegregation and equal employment opportunities for the black residents of
Birmingham.
The first month saw marches, lunch counter sit-ins, “kneel-ins” at white churches,
nightly rallies, and boycotts of downtown businesses. However, the campaign was
slow to gain momentum. Police were deliberately low-key in their arrests so the
actions generated little media attention. There were also major divisions within the
community. Only 10% of black ministers supported the campaign, others actively
opposed it. With a lack of widespread involvement, the campaign was fizzling out
(failing).
This changed with the “Children’s Crusade” when youth began to march by
the thousands. Over the course of a week, more than 3 400 young
people were arrested. With the jails overflowing, the Commissioner of
Public Safety, Bull Connor, ordered the police to use dogs and fire
hoses, and shocking images of young people being attacked spread
around the world. Suddenly, the floundering (struggling) local campaign was
a national crisis, and power shifted to the protesters. Project C and the
Children’s Crusade marked a turning point for the American Civil Rights
Movement.
[Source: https://s7712.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/
BirminghamEngFinalFinal2018.pdf. Accessed on 28 December 2024.]
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SOURCE 3B
The source below is an extract from an article written by Alexis Clark entitled “The
Children’s Crusade: When the Youth of Birmingham Marched for Justice”. It explains
why children joined the Birmingham Campaign.
James Bevel, a member of SCLC, came up with the idea to include schoolchildren
in protests to help desegregate Birmingham. Janice Kelsey was 15 when she
attended her first meeting for the Children’s Crusade. “I knew what segregation and
separation was, but I didn’t understand the extent or the level of the inequities in that
separation,” recalls Kelsey. Bevel posed questions to the students who discovered
that hand-me-down books and football helmets were not what white students used.
Nor was there just one typewriter in the entire school, like Black students had, but
rooms with typewriters at the white schools, says Kelsey. “Things like that became
personal to me and I decided I wanted to do something about it”, she says.
Rev Martin Luther King Jr, along with other activists was adamantly opposed to
involving children in marches because of the threats of violence from white mobs, as
well as from policemen led by Eugene “Bull” Connor, the Commissioner of Public
Safety in Birmingham notorious for his racist policies. More than 1 000 students
skipped school to participate in the protest. “We were told what to expect”, says
Kelsey. “We were told that if you decide to participate that this is a nonviolent
movement, so you can’t fight back”.
As the children bravely took to the streets, the Birmingham police were waiting to
arrest them, putting them in paddy wagons and school buses. Kelsey says she was
arrested on her first day of marching and remained in jail for four days. Although the
police were mostly restrained on the first day, that did not continue. Law enforcement
brought out water hoses and police dogs. More than 2 000 children were reportedly
arrested during the days-long protest.
“I think we served as a catalyst for change,” says Kelsey.
[Source: https://www.history.com/news/childrens-crusade-birmingham-civil-rights.
Accessed on 28 December 2024.]
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SOURCE 3C
The article below titled “Brace in Birmingham’’ was taken from the ‘Birmingham News’
which downplays the Civil Rights Protests of 1963. It highlights the police response to the
protesters.
[Source: https://newseumed.org ‘Birmingham News’ Downplays Civil Rights Protests,1963.
Accessed on 04 January 2025.]
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SOURCE 3D
The following extract is an article written by Rebecca Sherman, an American
researcher. It discusses President John F. Kennedy’s support for Civil Rights
legislation following the Children’s Crusade in June 1963.
At a mass meeting, Dr King responded to the Children’s Crusade with a speech
stating, “I have been inspired and moved …If they think today is the end of this, they
will be badly mistaken”. Bevel became the hero for his idea to use the students, as
Birmingham succeeded in showing the world the violence experienced in the South
against black men, women and children. Newspapers, magazines and television
programmes around the nation were highlighting the Birmingham campaign to the
point where “the press had drawn the whole world’s attention to Birmingham”.
Immediately after the photos were seen, Congress and the President began
discussing legislation that would finally give African Americans equal rights. The
images in newspapers and on television embarrassed the federal government,
especially President John F. Kennedy, because they were being featured not only in
the US but around the world as well. President Kennedy also feared that more
conflict would erupt, resulting in him putting pressure on Congress for civil
rights legislation starting with a speech on national television. Congress
realised “the country couldn’t solve the conflict over civil rights one city at a
time. The United States needed a national solution”. So the Birmingham
campaign, especially the Children’s Crusade, played a key role in the passing of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
American historian and journalist, David Halberstam found in his research
that “historians have long argued that the SCLC’s …’children’s crusade’… [was]
decisive in forcing the Kennedy Administration to act in favour of greater civil
rights’’. Adults tried to shield their children from the Civil Rights Movement, but the
children defied them, showing no fear in making their own change.
[Source: Sherman, Rebecca, “The Birmingham Children’s Crusade and the Renewed Civil
Rights Movement’’ https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/pell_theses/119.
Accessed on 04 January 2025.]
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Visual sources and other historical evidence were taken from the following:
Bridgland F. 1990. The War for Africa – Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent
(Ashanti Publishing Limited, Gibraltar)
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/17601.htm
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/novikov-responds-long-telegram-1946/
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/marshall-plan
https://moorhistory.weebly.com/development--impact-of-the-cold-war-containment.html
https://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/cuito-cuanavale-angola/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0235/171d674c07cd89de1dc9482b909cc6fee1a2.pdf
https://www.aamarchives.org/archive/history/namibia/nam33-namibia-on-the-road-to-
freedom.html
https://s7712.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/BirminghamEngFinalFinal2018.pdf.
Accessed on 28 December2024.]
https://www.history.com/news/childrens-crusade-birmingham-civil-rights
https://newseumed.org ‘Birmingham News’ Downplays Civil Rights Protests,1963
Sherman, Rebecca, “The Birmingham Children’s Crusade and the Renewed Civil
Rights Movement’’ https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/pell_theses/119
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QUESTION 3: HOW DID THE CHILDREN’S MARCH OF BIRMINGHAM GAIN
PUBLICITY FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) IN 1963?
Study Sources 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D and answer the questions that follow.
3.1 Read Source 3A.
3.1.1 Why, according to the source, was Birmingham the most segregated
city in the South? (1 x 2) (2)
3.1.2 List FOUR strategies from the source, that the protesters used in the
first month of the Birmingham Campaign (4 x 1) (4)
3.1.3 Define the term non-violent action in your own words. (1 x 2) (2)
3.1.4 Comment on why you think only 10% of black ministers supported
the Birmingham campaign. (1 x 2) (2)
3.1.5 Using the information from the source and your own knowledge,
explain why the floundering local campaign was a national crisis.
(2 x 2) (4)
3.2 Refer to Source 3B.
3.2.1 Who, according to the source, came up with the idea to include
school children in the protests? (1 x 2) (2)
3.2.2 Give TWO reasons from the source why Martin Luther King Jr and
other activists were opposed to involving children in the marches.
(2 x 1) (2)
3.2.3 Quote evidence from the source suggesting how the actions of the
children support the philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement. (1 x 2) (2)
3.2.4 Explain what is implied by the statement: “I think we served as a
catalyst for change” in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.
(1 x 2) (2)
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3.3 Study Source 3C.
3.3.1 Explain the messages conveyed by the article regarding the reaction of the
police in the Birmingham campaign. (2 x 2) (4)
3.3.2 Comment on the limitations of this source for a historian researching the
Children’s Crusade organised by the Civil Rights Movement. (2 x 2) (4)
3.4 Refer to Source 3A and 3C. Explain how the information in Source 3A supports the
evidence in Source 3C regarding the events of the Children’s Crusade in
Birmingham in 1963. (2 x 2) (4)
3.5 Consult Source 3D.
3.5.1 Comment on whether one can consider King’s statement: ‘if they think today
is the end of this, they will be badly mistaken’ as justified in the context of
the Civil Rights Movement. (1 x 2) (2)
3.5.2 Define the concept crusade in the context of the Birmingham Campaign in
the USA. (1 x 2) (2)
3.5.3 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge explain how
the Children’s Crusade was decisive in forcing the Kennedy administration
to act in favour of greater civil rights in the USA. (1 x 2) (2)
3.5.4 Quote TWO pieces of evidence from the source that indicate that adults
could not shield their children from the Civil Rights Movement. (2 x 1) (2)
3.6 Using the information from the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write a
paragraph of about eight lines (about 80 words) explaining how the children’s
march of Birmingham gained publicity for the Civil Rights Movement in the United
States of America in 1963. (8)
[50]
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SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS
Answer at least ONE question, but NOT more than TWO questions in this section.
Your essay should be about THREE pages long.
QUESTION 4: THE EXTENSION OF THE COLD WAR: CASE STUDY – VIETNAM
The United States of America (USA), as a superpower, was able to defeat the Vietcong
in the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1975.
Do you agree with this statement? Support your line of argument with relevant
evidence [50]
QUESTION 5: INDEPENDENT AFRICA: CASE STUDY – THE CONGO
‘Mobutu Sese Seko attempted to reduce the Congo's dependence on Western
powers through his political and economic policies.’
Critically discuss this statement, using relevant historical evidence to support your line
of argument. [50]
QUESTION 6: CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS FROM THE 1950s TO THE 1970s:
THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
Explain to what extent the Black Power Movement emerged as a radical form of
protest among African Americans in the United States of America during the 1960s.
Support your line of argument with relevant evidence. [50]
TOTAL: 150
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