Number Number June 2025 Pearson Edexcel: GCSE (9–1)
History 1HI0/33 – Paper 3: Modern Depth
Study – Option 33: The USA 1954–1975:
Conflict at Home and Abroad – Merged
Question Paper & Mark Scheme
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History 🟐 🟐
PAPER 3: Modern depth study
Option 33: The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home
and abroad
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
• InThen
centre number and candidate number.
Section A, answer Question 1 and EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
answer all questions in Section B.
• – there may
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
be more space than you need.
Information
•• The total mark for this paper is 52.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
• The
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
marks available for spelling, punctuation, grammar and use of specialist
terminology are clearly indicated.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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Answer Question 1 and then EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
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Study Source A below and then answer Question 1.
Source A: A photograph showing supplies being carried along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to
the Vietcong fighting in South Vietnam.
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, 1 Give two things you can infer from Source A about the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the
Vietnam War.
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Complete the table below to explain your answer.
(i) What I can infer:
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Details in the source that tell me this:
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(ii) What I can infer:
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Details in the source that tell me this:
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(Total for Question 1 = 4 marks)
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, Answer EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
EITHER
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2 (a) Explain why the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) was successful.
(12)
You may use the following in your answer:
• Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
• US Supreme Court
You must also use information of your own.
OR
(b) Explain why Black Power emerged in the 1960s.
(12)
You may use the following in your answer:
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• Stokely Carmichael
• Black culture
You must also use information of your own.
(Total for Question 2 = 12 marks)
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