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AQA A-LEVEL HISTORY Component 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 QP JUNE 2023
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A-level AQA A-LEVEL HISTORY Component 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition,1906–1957 QP JUNE 2023
HISTORY
Component 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
A • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2M.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the minutes of a Cabinet meeting, 23 August 1931.
The Prime Minister informed the Cabinet that he was strongly in favour of accepting the
May Committee’s recommendations. The Bank of England needed to restore confidence
in sterling. He warned the Cabinet of the dreadful consequences that would inevitably
follow from a financial panic and a run on the pound. He was confident that a majority of
the Party was in favour. If the government inflicted spending cuts and tax rises but made 5
no significant reduction in unemployment benefit, it would alienate much middle-class
support and lose the Party its moral prestige, which was one of its greatest assets. In
conclusion, the Prime Minister admitted that the recommendations as a whole
represented the opposite of everything that the Labour Party stood for, and yet he was
absolutely satisfied that it was in the national interest to implement them if the country
was to be saved. He then pointed out that, if on this question there were any important 10
resignations, the government as a whole must resign.
Source B
From a diary entry of JCC Davidson, 23/24 August 1931. Davidson, a Conservative MP
and close friend and political ally of Baldwin, held several ministerial positions between
1920 and 1937.
MacDonald requested a meeting with Baldwin after his Cabinet meeting ended. Samuel
and Chamberlain were also present. MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet.
It was clear that he had declined the King’s request to form a coalition. Chamberlain
pressed him to consider the support in the country he would bring to such an
administration and the effect it would have in restoring confidence. His arguments
seemed to have no effect. To everyone at the meeting, it seemed certain that 5
MacDonald intended to resign. The next morning all was dramatically changed. The
party leaders met with the King at 10 am. The King again urged MacDonald not to
resign. Their discussions lasted for two hours. There was to be no coalition, but a so-
called cooperation of individuals to cope with the emergency. Once the required
measures had been passed, the parties would contest an election independently. 10
MacDonald set out for Downing Street to tell the Cabinet what had been decided.
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