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History/P1 2 DBE/November 2025
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QUESTION 1: HOW DID THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT CONTRIBUTE TO
COLD WAR TENSIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND THE SOVIET UNION IN 1947?
SOURCE 1A
The source below is an extract from the 'Iron Curtain' speech delivered by Britain's
former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in Fulton, Missouri in the USA on
5 March 1946. It was taken from Chambers Book of Great Speeches edited by A Burnet.
It highlights how communism had spread into Eastern Europe.
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. Nobody
knows what Soviet Russia and its communist international organisation intend to do in
the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytising
(persuasive) tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant (brave)
Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. There is deep sympathy
and goodwill in Britain – and I doubt not here also – towards the peoples of all the
Russias and a resolve (decision) to persevere (continue) through many differences and
rebuffs (rejections) in establishing lasting friendships.
We understand the Russian need to be secure on her Western frontiers by the
removal of all possibility of German aggression. We welcome Russia to her rightful
place among the leading nations of the world. We welcome her flag upon the seas.
Above all, we welcome constant, frequent and growing contacts between the Russian
people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. It is my duty, however – for I
am sure you would wish me to state the facts as I see them to you – to place before you
certain facts about the present position in Europe.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended
(fallen) across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of
Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade,
Bucharest and Sofia: all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in
what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only
to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of
control from Moscow …
[From Chambers Book of Great Speeches edited by A Burnet]
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SOURCE 1B 2025
The cartoon below titled 'WHAT WE'RE DRIVING AT' by SJ Ray appeared in the Kansas
City Star newspaper in the United States of America (USA) on 13 March 1947. It depicts
President Truman using a hammer called 'U.S. AID' to stop the ideological and political
threats posed by the communists.
WHAT WE'RE DRIVING AT
TURKEY
GREECE
[From the Kansas City Star newspaper, 13 March 1947]
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SOURCE 1C
The source below is from an article titled 'The Marshall Plan: Filling in Some Blanks' by
K Burk and it appeared in the journal Contemporary European History, published in
2001. It outlines how the US introduced the Marshall Plan to contain the spread of
communism across Europe.
Marshall Plan policymakers had two main concerns here. First of all, broken
economies might foster the growth of communism much like mulch (compost) fosters
mushrooms, a fear particularly prevalent (common) with regard to France, Italy, Greece
and *Trizone Germany. A second major goal of American policy was to contain the
Soviet Union, which was perceived (seen) as having embarked on active expansion
and as being irremediably (severely) hostile to the United States. A swift glance (look)
at a map made it clear why Turkey, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were
included: Turkey and Greece would guard the eastern Mediterranean;
Ireland would guard the approaches to the British Isles and the western Mediterranean;
Norway and Iceland were strategically placed athwart (diagonally); the routes across
the North Atlantic and Sweden lay across the Baltic Sea from the Soviet Union, its
entire south-eastern coast effectively ringed with Soviet military forces.
The need to contain the Soviet Union, plus the desire to rebuild the European
economy, came together in the third goal, which was the drive for European
integration. An integrated Europe working together politically as well as economically,
would constitute the strongest possible barrier to Soviet expansion, and certainly the
United States maintained constant pressure on the participants in the Marshall Plan to
move towards this goal.
[From 'The Marshall Plan: Filling in Some Blanks', Contemporary European History by K Burk]
*Trizone: Germany was divided into four zones of occupation (by the Allied powers),
namely the USA zone, the British zone, the French zone and the Russian
zone. 'Trizone' refers to the three zones of the Western countries, i.e. the
USA, Britain and France tied together by the ideology of capitalism.
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SOURCE 1D
The source below is from a book titled History of Western Civilization by J McLean.
It gives a detailed account of the Molotov Plan that was introduced by the Soviet Union
in 1947 to oppose the USA's containment policy.
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 to provide aid to
rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned
with the Soviet Union. It can be seen as the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan,
which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join
without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav
Molotov, rejected the Marshall Plan (1947), proposing the Molotov Plan – the Soviet-
sponsored economic grouping which was eventually expanded to become the
*COMECON. The Molotov Plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union's refusal to accept
aid from the Marshall Plan or allow any of their satellite states to do so because of
their belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite
states through the conditions imposed and by making beneficiary (receiving) countries
economically dependent on the United States.
The plan was a system of bilateral trade agreements that established the COMECON
to create an economic alliance of socialist countries. This aid allowed countries in
Europe to stop relying on American aid, and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to
reorganise their trade to the USSR instead.
[From History of Western Civilization by J McLean]
*COMECON: a Soviet-led economic organisation of communist states formed in
1949 to promote economic cooperation and integration among its
members
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History/P1 6 DBE/November 2025
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QUESTION 2: WHY DID THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) BECOME
INVOLVED IN THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR FROM 1975?
SOURCE 2A
The source below is an extract from the book Kissinger in Angola: The Influence of
Personality on Foreign Policy Working Paper by M Guta. It highlights how the United
States (US) Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, influenced American foreign policy
towards Angola during 1975.
The United States of America (USA) did not want the Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola (MPLA) to gain control of Angola, and under the direction of the
Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations in
Angola gained serious ground in 1975. Provisions for United States involvement in
Africa were intentionally vague and stated that CIA involvement in Africa was to be a
provision of material, support and advice to create a stable climate in newly independent
African countries, leaving out the mention of Angola specifically. With this flexibility, the
CIA provided over 22 million dollars in covert support to the National Liberation Front of
Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) by the
fall of 1975.
Beyond monetary aid for the FNLA and UNITA, Kissinger's plans for Angola culminated
(ended) into the covert CIA Operation known as IAFEATURE. IAFEATURE was in place
to secretly launch a paramilitary programme against the MPLA under the CIA, and was
kept top secret so that it did not have to be explained to the public in the aftermath of the
recent failure in Vietnam. On the flipside of the defeat in Vietnam, Kissinger wanted to
redeem American foreign policy from this failure and saw Angola as the place to do it; he
wanted to prove that the United States was still the global world power.
[From Kissinger in Angola: The Influence of Personality on Foreign Policy Working Paper by M Guta]
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SOURCE 2B
The source below is an extract from a book, The Silent War: South African Recce
Operations 1969–1994, written by P Stiff. It explains why the USA became involved in
the Angolan Civil War after 1975.
The US had poured uncounted millions of dollars into the bottomless pit of Mobutu's
corrupt military dictatorship over the previous ten years. It was a case of buying
popularity to ward off the possibility of Soviet influence making inroads into Zaire.
Gratitude by Mobutu was never a factor in their diplomatic relations and when world
copper prices plunged (fell) in early 1975 … Mobutu turned on his benefactors. In
June 1975 he accused the US of backing a coup to topple him. He expelled the
US ambassador … The US State Department, headed by the Secretary of State,
Henry Kissinger, anxious to get back in Mobutu's favour, decided to enhance its
support of his Angolan policy by lending weight to the FNLA's cause.
CIA Director, William Colby, told the National Security Council he needed $100 million
to ensure that Holden Roberto (FNLA leader) won, but this was too large a sum to
keep secret, so only $41,7 million was authorised. The CIA's task seemingly was not to
win but to prevent an easy victory for the Soviet-backed forces. The result, it was
hoped, would be that both the FNLA and UNITA would gain a major say in any future
Angolan government … The operation was to provide material, support and advice to
moderate nationalist movements to enable them to create a stable climate to allow
genuine self-determination in newly emerging African states. It did not mention Angola,
supposedly because this was only to be mentioned by the Director of the CIA in his
verbal briefings.
[From The Silent War: South African Recce Operations 1969–1994 by P Stiff]
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SOURCE 2C
The source below was taken from an interview that was included in the book,
Conflicting Missions: Washington, Havana, Africa 1959–1976 by P Gleijeses,
published in 2002. The interview was between Gleijeses and RW Hultslander who was
the last Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Station Chief in Luanda, Angola in 1988. It
explains the secret programme conducted by the CIA in Angola in the mid-70s.
PIERO GLEIJESES: What was your opinion about the CIA covert action programme
code, named IAFEATURE?
ROBERT W HULTSLANDER: Simply put, I was opposed to the covert action
programme in Angola because I was convinced it would not succeed, and would badly
damage our ability to work in the future with moderate elements throughout Africa. We
were not prepared to spend the necessary resources to assure victory. Or more fairly
put, we should have realised that our adversaries (enemies) – Moscow and Havana –
were more determined and much better positioned than we. And, they did not have a
hostile Congress controlling the purse strings. Kissinger was determined to challenge
the Soviet Union, although no vital US interests were at stake.
Instead of working with the moderate elements in Angola, which I believe we could
have found within the MPLA, we supported the radical, tribal, 'anti-Soviet right'. You
write that, 'Kissinger feared that an MPLA victory would have destabilising (disrupting)
effects throughout southern Africa.' Of course, the opposite proved true; it was our
policies which caused the 'destabilisation'. […]
I did my best to argue the US policy position and defend the covert action programme
during my all-night session with [Senator] Clark at Killoran's Luanda residence. My
heart was not in it, however, and I finally admitted that I personally thought our support
of Roberto and Savimbi would prove disastrous. This position, as you can imagine,
caused me problems with my own superiors, and infuriated (angered) Kissinger.
[From Conflicting Missions: Washington, Havana, Africa 1959–1976 by P Gleijeses]
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SOURCE 2D
The cartoon below was drawn by Portuguese cartoonist L Silva, published in 1993 in a
magazine, Angola & Cartoons Towards the Year 2000. It depicts American Secretary of
State, Henry Kissinger, mediating in the Angolan conflict.
KISSINGER … and my country as a party
involved in the mediation of
the conflict, promises to do
everything to bring it to a
definitive end.
UNITA
MPLA
[From Angola & Cartoons Towards the Year 2000 by L Silva]
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QUESTION 3: HOW DID THE NON-VIOLENT APPROACH ADOPTED BY
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHARACTERISE THE CIVIL SOCIETY
PROTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) DURING
THE 1960s?
SOURCE 3A
The source below is from an article titled 'Martin Luther King and the Philosophy of
Non-violence' written by C Risen and published in a journal, Bill of Rights in
Action, in 2017. It explains how Martin Luther King Jr was influenced by passive
resistance ideas introduced by Mahatma Gandhi.
King's earliest exposure to the ideas that would coalesce (blend) in his non-violent
philosophy occurred when he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College. It was not
until he began to study the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi that he began to see the
possibility of applying non-violence to the specific problems of African Americans,
especially in the South. As he later told it, in Philadelphia he listened to a sermon by
the president of Howard University, Mordecai Johnson, who spoke at length about the
teachings and actions of Gandhi, and in particular his use of non-violent mass protest
to challenge British control over India.
For King, the heart of Gandhi's non-violence was love, in the spiritual, transcendent
(divine) form of the word. In the face of coercive (intimidating), racist British rule,
Gandhi so loved his oppressors that he refused to take up arms against them.
What did King mean by non-violence? It was not merely the refusal to hit back, an
insistence on turning the other cheek. It was, in its own way, aggressive. It meant
putting oneself in the face of violence, of actively confronting it and, responding with
love to the jabs and punches.
It also meant organising thousands across the South in specific mass actions that
would force face-to-face encounters with white, racist power. Doing so, King thought,
would demonstrate both the impotence (weakness) of white violence and show the
country that the black community was not afraid to insist on its rights.
[From Bill of Rights in Action, Vol. 32, 2017]
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SOURCE 3B
The source below is extracted from Martin Luther King Jr's direct words taken from a
book titled The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr by H Walton, published in
1971. It gives an account of King's commitment to the philosophy of non-violence.
I think we have come to the point where there is no longer a choice now between
non-violence and riots. It must be militant, massive non-violence, or riots. The
discontent is so deep, the anger so ingrained (deep-rooted), the despair, the
restlessness so wide, that something has to be brought into being to serve as a
channel through which these deep emotional feelings, these deep angry feelings, can
be funnelled (directed). There has to be an outlet, and I see this campaign as a way to
transmute (change) the inchoate (underdeveloped) rage of the ghetto into a constructive
and creative channel. It becomes an outlet for anger.
Even if I didn't deal with the moral dimensions and question of violence versus
non-violence, from a practical point of view, I don't see riots working. But I am
convinced that if rioting continues, it will strengthen the right wing of the country and
we'll end up with a kind of right-wing takeover in the cities and a Fascist development,
which will be terribly injurious (harmful) to the whole nation. I don't think America can
stand another summer of Detroit-like riots without a development that could destroy the
soul of the nation, even the democratic possibilities of the nation.
I am committed to non-violence absolutely. I'm just not going to kill anybody, whether
it's in Vietnam or here. I'm not going to burn down any building. If non-violent protest
fails this summer, I will continue to preach it and teach it, and we at the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference will still do this. I plan to stand by non-violence
because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in
the struggle for racial justice but also my dealings with people, with my own self. I will
be faithful to non-violence.
[From The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr by H Walton]
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SOURCE 3C
The source below is a photograph taken from a book titled Parting the Waters: America
in the King Years 1954–63 by T Branch. It shows three students participating in a sit-in
at a lunch counter, in Jackson, Mississippi, on 28 May 1963. A member of the white
group is pouring a liquid substance over a seated student.
[From Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by T Branch]
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SOURCE 3D
The extract below is part of an interview that KB Clark conducted with
Martin Luther King Jr prior to the 28 August 1963 March on Washington. Clark was a
child psychologist who provided psychological data to support the Civil Rights
Movement. It focuses on the negative criticism of the non-violent approach and how
King Jr responded.
CLARK: He (Malcolm X) goes beyond that in some of the things I've heard him say –
to say that this is deliberately your philosophy of love of the oppressor which he
identifies completely with the non-violent movement. He says this philosophy and this
movement are actually encouraged by whites because it makes them comfortable.
It makes them believe that *Negroes are meek (submissive), supine (passive)
creatures.
KING: Well, I don't think that's true. If anyone has ever lived with a non-violent
movement in the South, from Montgomery on through the Freedom Rides and through
the sit-in movement and the recent Birmingham movement and seen the reactions of
many of the extremists and reactionaries in the white community, he wouldn't say that
this movement makes – this philosophy – makes them comfortable. I think it arouses a
sense of shame within them often – in many instances. I think it does something to
touch the conscience and establish a sense of guilt.
CLARK: James Baldwin (American Civil Rights activist) raises still another point of the
whole non-violent position, an approach. He raises the question of whether it will be
possible to contain the Negro people within this framework of non-violence if we
continue to have more of the kinds of demonstrations that we had in Birmingham,
wherein the police brought dogs to attack human beings. What is your reaction to
Mr Baldwin's anxiety?
KING: … we can be sure that the vast majority of Negroes who engage in the
demonstrations and who understand the non-violent philosophy will be able to face
dogs and all of the other brutal methods that are used without retaliating with
violence …
[From A TESTAMENT OF HOPE: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr,
edited by JM Washington]
*Negroes: a derogatory name used in the USA in the past to refer to African (black)
Americans
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Visual sources and other historical evidence were taken from the following:
Bill of Rights in Action, Vol. 32, 2017
Branch, T. 1988. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 (Simon and
Schuster Inc., New York)
Burnet, A. 2006. Chambers Book of Great Speeches (Harrap Publishers Ltd, UK)
Contemporary European History, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2001
Gleijeses, P. 2002. Conflicting Missions: Washington, Havana, Africa 1959–1976
(Chapel Hill, London)
Guta, M. 2016. Kissinger in Angola: The Influence of Personality on Foreign Policy
Working Paper (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Kansas City Star newspaper, 13 March 1947
McLean, J. 2003. History of Western Civilization (Simple Book Publishing, USA)
Silva, L. 1993. Angola & Cartoons Towards the Year 2000 (Edicao EDIPRESS, Luanda)
Stiff, P. 1999. The Silent War: South African Recce Operations 1969–1994 (Galago
Publishing, Alberton, South Africa)
Walton, H. 1971. The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr (Greenwood Press
Inc., UK)
Washington, JM. 1991. A TESTAMENT OF HOPE: The Essential Writings and
Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr (Harper Collins Publishers, New York)
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