As history - f964/02 - cold war in asia

What did people argue for the last question were you for or against the interpretation that the US wanted to distance itself?

Oh I was in support because I kept to the time period and said they wanted wished to distance themselves but could not because they felt morally obliged to help the South Vietnamese and theui especially after the assassination of diem. Do you think I will be marked down?

I got really confused on question b and had to think about what the question was asking for far too long - i didn't know what distance itself from the problem meant
..... I wrote about

Distancing itself: escalating the war without addressing the PROBLEM which was the lack of support for the regime

Against the interpretation: the US didn't distance itself but wanted to help the Vietnamese people with aid and freedom etc



I'm really worried I did it completely wrong ... Do you think that this will get credit? Thanks

Thanks !!! I'm so worried though because I only spent about 35 minutes writing because I didn't understand the question! Yes I am sure that's what it meant now but I didn't realise at the time

No Pitt to peel! Also about Cold War do you know what other people wrote for the b question? Thanks so much!

Conclusion of part a) was that Source B was more helpful


Groupings of part b) Sources B and (Some of) A agree, and Sources C, D and E (and some of A) disgree


Conclusion of part b) The sources and my own knowledge Disagree with the statement


People at my school had a range of different interpretations and groupings, a fair few had mine, but others had completely different groupings


Realised I missed a few pieces of own knowledge(e.g. Agent Orange and Escalation of Advisers), but felt what I said was good enough (e.g. Agrovilles, Strategic Hamlets, The Coup, Communist controlled South Vietnam, Support for Diem, American escalation of bombing, and military escalation after the time period)


Obviously some of that own knowledge isn't directly related to the context of the question but helps to prove reliability and provenance of the source


Thoughts?

I really like the way you answered the question. I did mine exactly the same way regarding question A (Source B being more helpful) & question B (regarding the grouping of the sources, I said sources A&B support the interpretation of the US distancing itself & sources C, D & E opposing the interpretation)

Yeah, I though A was more towards the agree

Yeah, aah forgot to mention to an extent it opposes it, cos it said "the only option is for the US to start full
Scale war" or something like that but he said personally it'll be the wrong thing to do so opposed it

That's exactly the quotes I used, but it can be interpreted either way, hence why groupings have been so varied

i've got the paper if we all want to review it more- anyone doing the tudors paper this wednesday?

yess i'd love to & yhh i'm doing tudors.

check it out, http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3326993

no one seems to be tho

ok i've attached the 2015 cold war paper and it's like no one cares ahaha i cant find any threads for it but i think i'll be ok on Wednesday