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The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011 — exam questions
15 original Incandio exam-style questions on the changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011, 150 marks, about 225 minutes of writing. Each one carries the command word, the tariff and the specification statement it assesses, exactly as a paper presents them. This is an original Incandio practice question, written to reflect the structure and demands of the qualification. It is not an official Pearson Edexcel past-paper question.
This is the practice set for The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011 — the option that teaches it. Read the option first if the idea is new; come here when you want to find out whether you can turn it into marks. Completely free, no account needed to read.
What these questions ask of you
2 command words run through this set, and on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History each one means something precise. Answering the wrong command is the commonest way a candidate who understands the option still loses the mark.
- Explain (6–8 marks)
- TWO of whatever is asked for — effects, causes or ways — each analysed and shown to lead somewhere Misread as: one of them explained superbly, which is capped at 4 with no access to Level 3
- How (8–16 marks)
- a judgement on the EXTENT, built from both sides — agreement and disagreement, or three aspects and a criterion Misread as: agreement only on the source question (capped at 4), or the two printed bullets and nothing else on the sixteen-marker (held at 10)
Assessed on Paper 1 (4HI1/01) and Paper 2 (4HI1/02), against AO1, AO2.
Where these sit in the specification
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History (4HI1) — statements 4HI1 B5.2 AO1 · 4HI1 B5.2 AO2 · 4HI1 B5.5 AO1 · 4HI1 B5.5 AO2 · 4HI1 B5.3 AO1 · 4HI1 B5.3 AO2 · 4HI1 B5.1 AO1 · 4HI1 B5.1 AO2 · 4HI1 B5.4 AO1 · 4HI1 B5.4 AO2. Incandio is aligned to this specification; it is not published by, endorsed by or affiliated with Pearson, and it reproduces none of Pearson's wording.
The 15 questions
Answer them on paper, then open the option's exam practice to have them marked. The mark scheme, the accepted and rejected answers and the annotated model answer are in Incandio and are not printed here — an answer beside its question is not practice.
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which the League's response to Abyssinia was different from its response to Manchuria.
(Total for Question 1 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which the UN operation in Mozambique was different from the UN operation in Bosnia.
(Total for Question 2 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which the United Nations was different from the League of Nations.
(Total for Question 3 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which the League of Nations was different from earlier arrangements between states.
(Total for Question 4 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which UN peacekeeping after 1988 was different from UN peacekeeping before it.
(Total for Question 5 = 6 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the failure of sanctions against Italy in 1935–36.
(Total for Question 6 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the UN's failures in the 1990s.
(Total for Question 7 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the difficulties of the UN operation in the Congo, 1960–64.
(Total for Question 8 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the weaknesses of the League of Nations.
(Total for Question 9 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the success of the UN operation in Namibia.
(Total for Question 10 = 8 marks)
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(16)How
How significant was the Abyssinian crisis in the failure of the League of Nations, in the years 1919–46? • The sanctions of 1935 • The Hoare-Laval Pact (1935)
(Total for Question 11 = 16 marks)
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(16)How
How significant was great-power consent in the success of international organisations, in the years 1919–c2011? • The Hoare-Laval Pact (1935) • Mozambique (1990–94)
(Total for Question 12 = 16 marks)
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(16)How
How significant was the veto in the work of the United Nations, in the years 1945–c2011? • The Korean War (1950–53) • Namibia (1989)
(Total for Question 13 = 16 marks)
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(16)How
How far were the failures of the League of Nations caused by its own structure, in the years 1919–46? • The Covenant • The Abyssinian crisis (1935–36)
(Total for Question 14 = 16 marks)
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(16)How
How far were the UN's operations before 1989 limited successes? • The Congo (1960–64) • Resolution 242 (1967)
(Total for Question 15 = 16 marks)
Have them marked, then defend the answer
Practice tells you the mark; teaching it back tells you whether you understand it. On Incandio a topic counts as mastered only once you have taught it and defended it.
- Mark these questions — 15 questions, marked on Incandio against the authored scheme, with the mistake you actually made named.
- Teach it — explain the changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011 to Ember, an AI pupil who does not have it yet and asks the awkward question.
- Defend it — three rounds against the mind with the strongest claim on it, marked against descriptors you can read first.
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Back to the option
- The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011 — Option B5: the creation and successes of the League, 1919–29; the League challenged, 1930–39; setting up the United Nations Organisation and its work to 1964; the UN challenged, 1967–89; the UN at bay, 1990–2011.
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