DP History Questionbank

Using the sources and your own knowledge, examine the reasons for the rise of ethnic nationalism in Kosovo during the early 1990s.

How, according to Source Q, were Albanians portrayed by Serbian propaganda?

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source S for an historian studying the rise of ethnic tensions between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians during the 1990s.

What does Source R suggest about the perceptions some Serbian high school students had of Albanians in 1986?

Compare and contrast what Sources S and T reveal about the relations between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo.

What does Source T suggest about Slobodan Milosevic’s actions in Kosovo?

Using the sources and your own knowledge, discuss the challenges faced by the Rwandan government in finding justice and reconciliation from the end of 1994 through to the end of 1998.

What does Source R suggest about the situation of Rwandan refugees in 1996?

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source S for an historian studying the Rwandan refugee crisis.

What, according to Source Q, were the difficulties faced by Rwanda after the civil war and genocide in 1994?

What does Source R suggest about the living conditions of Rwandan refugees in camps?

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source Q for an historian studying the Rwandan refugee crisis of 1994–1996.

Using the sources and your own knowledge, to what extent do you agree with the view that Rwandan refugees found security and aid in camps during the period 1994–1996?

How, according to Source T, did the Hutu power structure impose its authority in refugee camps?

What does Source R suggest about the impact of the conflict in Rwanda by July 1994?

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source Q for an historian studying the conflict in Rwanda in 1994.

What, according to Source Q, were the causes of violence and conflict in Rwanda in 1994?

Using the sources and your own knowledge, to what extent do you agree that the actions of the RPF intensified the violence in Rwanda in 1994?

Compare and contrast what Sources S and T reveal about the actions of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the Rwandan government during the conflict in 1994.

Compare and contrast what Sources S and T reveal about Ibrahim Rugova’s methods to achieve Kosovar independence.

What, according to Source Q, were the aims of Ibrahim Rugova’s Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK)?

Using the sources and your own knowledge, discuss the view that Ibrahim Rugova’s methods contributed to the origin of war in Kosovo.

What does Source R suggest about Ibrahim Rugova’s relationship with western powers?

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source Q for an historian studying the aims and methods of Rugova’s LDK.

With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value and limitations of Source S for an historian studying the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY’s) indictment and arrest of Slobodan Milosevic.

How, according to Source Q, did the international community view the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic?

What does Source T suggest about the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic?