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GCSE History · AQA style · Conflict and tension 1918-1939
Appeasement and the outbreak of war (16 marks)
AO1AO216 marks · about 20 minutes

'The policy of appeasement was the main reason for the outbreak of war in 1939.' How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.

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AO1 (published assessment objective): Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas; select and synthesise evidence from different texts (English Language). For Literature: read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style, developing an informed personal response, and using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations. For Geography: demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes, environments and different scales. For History: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied.

AO2 (published assessment objective): Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views (English). For Geography: demonstrate geographical understanding of concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes, and the interrelationships between places, environments and processes. For History: explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second-order historical concepts.

Assessed against AO1, AO2 using Revision Robin's own level descriptors below. These are not the exam board's mark scheme. Every quotation in the feedback is checked against your answer before you see it, and a teacher's mark overrides ours.

Level 4 · 13 to 16Complex, sustained and well-supported argument. Analyses the issue in the question with precise, relevant knowledge; considers more than one side and weighs them; reaches a substantiated judgement that follows from the argument.
Level 3 · 9 to 12Developed, explained argument. Explains relevant factors with accurate knowledge; some weighing of different views; a judgement is reached and supported.
Level 2 · 5 to 8Simple explanation. Identifies relevant factors with some accurate knowledge; explanation is basic; judgement is asserted rather than argued.
Level 1 · 1 to 4Basic, descriptive response. Generalised or narrative; little explanation; no real judgement.