Cameroon GCE A/L June 2011 HISTORY paper 3

G.C.E A/L HISTORY 2011 PAPER 3

SECTION A: AFRICA 1800 – 1945.

1. Examine the effects of the abolition of Slave Trade on the West African coast in the 19^th
2. Assess the impact of the early Christian missionary activities in Sierra Leone or Nigeria between 1800 and 1850
3. To what extent was Uthman dan Fodio’s Jihad in West Africa motivated by religious and political reasons?
4. How far did the Berlin West Conference of 1884 – 1885 provide solutions to European rivalry in Africa.
5. Why and with what consequence did Abyssinia successfully resist Italian imperialism in the 1880s and 1890s?

SECTION B: 1945 TO PRESENT DATE

6. What role did Africans play in the second World War and with what consequences?
7. How do you justify the view that the “settler factor” was the most outstanding grievance of the National Liberation Front (FLN) in the struggle against French colonial rule in Algeria?
8. Account for the frequent military intervention in politics in Nigeria since independence.
9. Examine the role played by external factors In the dismantling of Apartheid in south Africa.
10. Analyze the reasons for the persistent civil wars in Africa with specific reference to either Rwanda or Liberia.

SECTION C: REVOLUTIONS AND DIPLOMACY 1700 – 1919

11. Did the outcome of the English revolution in 1688 satisfy the aspirations of the English people?
12. Assess the view that “no taxation without representation” was a pretext rather than the cause of the American War of Independence.
13. How successful was the Bismarck in isolating French between 1871 and 1890?
14. Estimate the significance of colonial rivalries in the outbreak of World War 1.
15. How far did the Paris peacemakers of 1919 respect the fourteen points of President Woodrow Wilson?

SECTION D: 1919 TO THE PRESENT

16. Account for the failure of collective Security in the 1930s.
17. Of what significance was the second World war in the world history?
18. How did the partition of Germany after World War Two and the Berlin Blockade signal the intensification of the Cold War?
19. Examine the view that the Francophonie is an instrument of Neocolonialism.
20. Why did the Cam David Accord of 1979 fail to bring lasting peace between the Arabs and the Jews?