Edexcel History Unit 3 A2

Amyone do PCE and the end of the Cold War?

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Original post by Sonwusiri95

omg I did the same paper! i did peaceful coexistence and the end of the cold war. the sources were so weird and confusing. what did you put for the peaceful coexistence question pls? What did they mean end the cold war? I was so confused but just answerred it as if they asked why did peaceful coexistence fail.. i hope we did well! :biggrin:

Sorry, about late reply, computer messed up :colondollar:

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a fellow cold war person

Yeah I found the sources a little weird but I did the best I could do, I mean we were only given a 4 year time period, which i thought was a little weird.

Anyway for the peaceful coexistence I interpreted it as what what were the factors that caused peaceful coexistence to fail. So i talked about Eisenhower New Look, Third World, Unwillingness to negotiate and all then I said how these resulted in the cold war not ending in the time period they said. Then i concluded by saying which i thought was the most important factor (Dunno if it was necessary to do that) but i was glad the question was just the failures I had no clue about successes :tongue:

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Original post by Smarticus

Amyone do PCE and the end of the Cold War?

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No, but i did do PCE. How you find it?

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MAGYEI

yeahh i did both
PCE was a causes question though?!

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MAGYEI

Original post by Sonwusiri95

how did you think the sources went? it was so confusing for me! and what points do you recall making please

For PCE it was a causes question
on one side you could argue that peaceful co-existence was never intended to end the cold war, just to ease tensions. You could say about al the summits like Geneva e.t.c and Eisenhower's new look policy + Khruschev and Malenkov's desire not to follow Stalin.

Causes for failure:
Tension of arms race- economies tied up e.t.c
Nuclear capability- by 55 both sides have H bomb e.t.c
Neither side were fully commited to the end of the war
e.g. Khruschev was so persistent about PCE yet in NOV 58 he released an ultimatum, Eisenhower-by declining- was willing to risk nuclear war rather than peace, when Khruschev confronted Eisenhower about the U2 spy planes, Eisenhower still persisted and refused to stop using them instead of stopping it

For the sources, end of cold war was interesting. They were a bit $£@$£ but still...

tons of own knowledge to use there too like Evil Empire, SDI, Glasnost & Perestroika, Geneva 1985, Reykjavik 1986, INF and START 1, 1989 revolutions, Sinatra Doctrine, Malta 1989 :smile:

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Original post by Gorganite

No, but i did do PCE. How you find it?

Well for the PCE. I thought it was alright but I was pushed for time and I was sad it only stopped at 61 and not 62 for the Cuban Missile crisis :frown:

I wrote about increasing international conflict so NATO/Warsaw Pact, East Berlin incident with Walter Ulbrict, Korea, Hungarian rising, the Vienna summit that consequently led to the Berlin Wall being erected. Then I talked about increasing arms so how US had 200+ atomic Bombs that in 1955 increased to 2,422, New look (massive retaliation, use of CIA (bay of pigs incident 61), brinkmanship and how it was an aggressive policy and the increase in the red army and MAD. I also talked about the other side like Austrian state treaty, the soviet withdrawal from Finland, how PC increased soviet industrial production by 1.949% so it was beneficial in sustaining good relations, the good media image that was perceived and summit diplomacy (geneva). Then I did mention briefly about stalin's death, malenkov and Khrushchev.

How did you find Section B?

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Original post by Smarticus

Well for the PCE. I thought it was alright but I was pushed for time and I was sad it only stopped at 61 and not 62 for the Cuban Missile crisis :frown:

I wrote about increasing international conflict so NATO/Warsaw Pact, East Berlin incident with Walter Ulbrict, Korea, Hungarian rising, the Vienna summit that consequently led to the Berlin Wall being erected. Then I talked about increasing arms so how US had 200+ atomic Bombs that in 1955 increased to 2,422, New look (massive retaliation, use of CIA (bay of pigs incident 61), brinkmanship and how it was an aggressive policy and the increase in the red army and MAD. I also talked about the other side like Austrian state treaty, the soviet withdrawal from Finland, how PC increased soviet industrial production by 1.949% so it was beneficial in sustaining good relations, the good media image that was perceived and summit diplomacy (geneva). Then I did mention briefly about stalin's death, malenkov and Khrushchev.

How did you find Section B?

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I don't think you needed to talk about the positives of it. It was specifically asking why it failed. My teacher said that was what it was. But I dunno

I did mostly the same but didn't do the events in Europe as in Hungary. But I did Berlin

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Original post by Gorganite

I don't think you needed to talk about the positives of it. It was specifically asking why it failed. My teacher said that was what it was. But I dunno

I did mostly the same but didn't do the events in Europe as in Hungary. But I did Berlin

Well I did it just incase and what about section B I did the end of the Cold War

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Original post by Smarticus

Well I did it just incase and what about section B I did the end of the Cold War

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I did the origins one. Sources were alright but they said so many knowledge it was hard to include any. But it was obvious what they were asking about I guess.

I dunno :biggrin:

How did yours go

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Original post by Gorganite

I did the origins one. Sources were alright but they said so many knowledge it was hard to include any. But it was obvious what they were asking about I guess.

I dunno :biggrin:

How did yours go

What was the factor? The end of the Cold War was good I guess the sources did have three/four factors you could clearly argue e.g. Reagan (carter+ neo-conservatism), soviet internal problems and technological backwardness, satellite problems and Gorbachev. I argued that Reaganomics and military pressure underpinned all other factors. The sources were easy to compare, the first source was a bit awkward and the info they really gave was Brezhnev doctrine, INF treaty and SDI. So there was plenty to talk about especially people power, the policies of new economic thinking, soviet inability to compete with nuclear parity and a rival system of SDI. It was good that they added carter so you could add some detente knowledge as well and there was some points you could disagree on.

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Sonwusiri95

Original post by Gorganite

Sorry, about late reply, computer messed up :colondollar:

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a fellow cold war person

Yeah I found the sources a little weird but I did the best I could do, I mean we were only given a 4 year time period, which i thought was a little weird.

Anyway for the peaceful coexistence I interpreted it as what what were the factors that caused peaceful coexistence to fail. So i talked about Eisenhower New Look, Third World, Unwillingness to negotiate and all then I said how these resulted in the cold war not ending in the time period they said. Then i concluded by saying which i thought was the most important factor (Dunno if it was necessary to do that) but i was glad the question was just the failures I had no clue about successes :tongue:

ok thanks you've made me feel a bit better! sorry about all the questions but around how much did you write for both parts? what grade didd you get last year and what are u predicted?? :redface:

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Original post by Sonwusiri95

ok thanks you've made me feel a bit better! sorry about all the questions but around how much did you write for both parts? what grade didd you get last year and what are u predicted?? :redface:

Well I'm glad to help that's what matters doesn't matter how many questions you ask :biggrin:

Ummm I wrote about 4 pages for Section A and i think 5-6 pages for Section B. Not too sure though for Section B but it was definitely more than A.

But last year I got a B in my exam.
This year I got an A in my coursework, and I am predicted an A. Although my teacher was like I think you can get an A* and I'm like uhh... no I cant :colondollar:

What about you, what are your grades like, if you don't mind me asking :colone:

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Sonwusiri95

Original post by Gorganite

Well I'm glad to help that's what matters doesn't matter how many questions you ask :biggrin:

Ummm I wrote about 4 pages for Section A and i think 5-6 pages for Section B. Not too sure though for Section B but it was definitely more than A.

But last year I got a B in my exam.
This year I got an A in my coursework, and I am predicted an A. Although my teacher was like I think you can get an A* and I'm like uhh... no I cant :colondollar:

What about you, what are your grades like, if you don't mind me asking :colone:

thats so good! I got a B and C last year but it totalled to a C. I got 30/50 for my coursework which is D and God forbid but i really think i flopped this exam. Im predicted a B and need at least a C to get into my uni. I keep check mark schemes and grade boundaries to see around what I got and God forbid but its looking like a D overall, ive beenso uppset since the exam and im reallly just hoping im just exaggerating or my coursework gets moderated higher! You probally will get the A*!!

I need at least 37/70 for a C
Ive had really bad experiences with edexcel in my other subjects. last yr i was with aqa for history so i dont know know about edexcel marking system but they seem so harsh. would u say they're lenient with marking? pleasee be honest and dont say yes just to make me feel better :colondollar:

thanks for all your help and good luck on your other examsss :biggrin:

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What do you reckon the grade boundaries might be like this year?

It's like for:

A*- 53
A- 47
B-43

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Original post by Smarticus

What do you reckon the grade boundaries might be like this year?

It's like for:

A*- 53
A- 47
B-43

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Would they really be that low?
I mean that means you could lose over 20 marks to get a B

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Original post by Sonwusiri95

thats so good! I got a B and C last year but it totalled to a C. I got 30/50 for my coursework which is D and God forbid but i really think i flopped this exam. Im predicted a B and need at least a C to get into my uni. I keep check mark schemes and grade boundaries to see around what I got and God forbid but its looking like a D overall, ive beenso uppset since the exam and im reallly just hoping im just exaggerating or my coursework gets moderated higher! You probally will get the A*!!

I need at least 37/70 for a C
Ive had really bad experiences with edexcel in my other subjects. last yr i was with aqa for history so i dont know know about edexcel marking system but they seem so harsh. would u say they're lenient with marking? pleasee be honest and dont say yes just to make me feel better :colondollar:

thanks for all your help and good luck on your other examsss :biggrin:

What are the grade boundaries like for the past exams? And the mark schemes i thought were really vague and don't really help. And I don't think I can get an A* I would have to have done really well in this exam. You might have done better in your exam than you think, I mean you did know what you were writing right.

How did you change your exam board anyway. And ummm for me edexcel are fine, really in the past I have never had anything wrong with them. I have them for RE as well and like any other exam board they can be really good or bad. But for this year and including AS as well edexcel do seem to be good this year.

So really, they are not bad really I actually prefer edexcel to OCR

Hope that helped :smile:

If not message me again

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Original post by Gorganite

Would they really be that low?
I mean that means you could lose over 20 marks to get a B

Yeah, I was shocked too but if you check the last grade boundaries for this exam you can see this.

I'm just hoping I get an A this year I was cheated last year, I thought the questions were really good too.

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Original post by Smarticus

Yeah, I was shocked too but if you check the last grade boundaries for this exam you can see this.

I'm just hoping I get an A this year I was cheated last year, I thought the questions were really good too.

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Yeah that means that it would be possible to get an A for a lot of people. Although maybe the grade boundaries are low because the paper is quite difficult?

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