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What is 1 thing you learnt about analysing and explaining a comparison source-based question?

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What is 1 thing you learnt about analysing and explaining a comparison source-based question?

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What was 1 thing that surprised you / cause you to re-evaluate your former assumptions in this tutorial?

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What was 1 thing that surprised you / cause you to re-evaluate your former assumptions in this tutorial?

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What is 1 question that you would like to clarify for the next lesson?

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What is 1 question that you would like to clarify for the next lesson?

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look out for key evidences link it back to the question (for both similarity and differnece)

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i learnt about how to utilise the content of each source and compare with the others to show similarities and differences as well as how to use information from the provenance to show similarities and differences in motive and origin

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the criterion for comparison are causes, process, and impact

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could we have sample essays so that we get familiarised with the formats and writing style please?

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where/when do i use the triangle of agency, forces and context?

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I learnt about the different possible criteria's for comparison of similarities and differences and how to link the explanations back to these criteria

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One thing that surprised me is how much more specific you have to be to argue your point

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How do we write better essays with enough justification as well as finishing in time

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I learnt that it is important to understand the context of the source to know the author’s pov and why he said what he said before making a comparison to the other source.

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Context is really important to understand the sources properly and context is needed to do a more in-depth analysis of the sources.

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What is the recommended amount of time needed to analyse one source during exams?

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1. using the method of causes, process and structure to analyse the sources carefully in order to find the similarities and differences clearly.

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2. It is easier to identify and compare after scribbling down those important steps instead of just directly finding the evidence from the source.

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is it possible to revisit the different structures for sbs?

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there must be a key similarity or difference

example: apple needs to compared to another fruit and not a table

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I learnt the criterias for comparison and how to extract important info from the provenance

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Which key CW development did your table choose to explain WHY the sources were similar? (USA felt threatened by USSR's aggressive expansionism?)

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Mikhail, Matthew, Kasper, Feng Shuo [EDIT]

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Mikhail, Matthew, Kasper, Feng Shuo [EDIT]

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Intensified Sovietisation of Eastern European States (June 1947) expanding their influence. This opposition move was seen as a threat, hence felt threatened that their sphere of influence was being undermined by USSR.

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deborah, mill, janelle, daphne, ming liang 

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deborah, mill, janelle, daphne, ming liang 

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In 1947 with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, it triggered the Soviets to set up COMECON and COMINFORM in 1947-49. Stalin indoctrinated and reinforced communist ideology, influence and manipulated the Eastern European satellite states (through the use of salami tactics). this thus threatened US national ideology and influence as Stalin was aggressively countering and encroaching on the US

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Berlin blockade and airlift 1948-1949

Stalins attempt to blockade west berlin aimed to assert control over the city and weaken western influence , leading to a significant escalation of tensions and highlighting the threat posed by soviet expansionism gi western interests and security

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COMINFORM (SEP 1947),COMECON(JAN1949) - USSR securing it's own Communist sphere of influence that it's in direct contrast to US's democratic ideals

USSR first exploding of nuclear bomb (Aug 1949) - USSR becoming the second Nuclear superpower besides the US itself, hence they both have equal power to annihilate each other.

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Soviet union signs treaty of friendship and alliance with china in 1950. with communism now growing in Asia, creating the east communist bloc , resulting in USA fear of the domino effect with communism spreading in SEA. This was a security threat to USA and the increase of the communist sphere of influence

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• Berlin Blockade 24 June 1948

Explanation: Stalin deprived the people in the region of necessities. This was seen as aggressive and expansionistic to the USA

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Berlin blocked and airlift Stalin's aggressive and expansionistic tendencies threatening US national security is the Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-1949). Stalin's attempt to blockade West Berlin aimed to assert control over the city and weaken Western influence, leading to a significant escalation of tensions and highlighting the threat posed by Soviet expansionism to Western interests and security.

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Hashita, jovann, jothiee, Zhong Xian, Kelly 

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Hashita, jovann, jothiee, Zhong Xian, Kelly 

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The key development is Berlin blockade. The Soviet Union only started the Berlin blockade in protest of France Britain and USA merging their German controlled areas to form West Berlin. this pushed the USSR to start the Berlin blockade in order to prevent West Germany from being formed and the Deuchmark to be introduced.

By starting the Berlin blockade it showed that the ussr was pushing around the other allies and trying to bully their way to gaining west berlin

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Source A: Berlin Blockade, June 1948-May 1949, and Alliance with China, February 1950.

Treaty of Friendship and Alliance w China: Strengthening communist influence by allying with each other, which makes it easier for communism to spread in Asia.

Berlin blockade: USSR wants to curb democracy by depriving East Berlin of food, water and electricity to make them desperate and make them listen to USSR.

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How would you include the context of schools of thought into your Para 4: Explaining WHY Different? Choose either Source A to explain fully.

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Source A held an orthodox view and was published in 1950 , at that time relationship between USSR and USA was deteriorating, thus the author wanted to sway public opinion as Americans felt emphatic towards the soviets casualties during WW2 , the author wanted to paint USSR as the villain , so that Americans would oppose USSR and support the current government’s policy.

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Source B is part of the Post Revisionist interpretation.

The source claims that both sides were to blame through a mutual tit for tat response that escalated and perpetuated the cold war.

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Post 1991 SOT where Stalin’s insecurities when it comes to USSR’s security led him to establish his own economic and political bloc. in other words, in order to combat USA’s agreesuve actions, Stalin felt compelled to defend his state with distruptuve and harsh actions

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Source A: Megan, Leanne, Sonia, Amalya, Krystal

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Source A: Megan, Leanne, Sonia, Amalya, Krystal

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Source A was a political cartoon published in 1950, the era of Orthodox school of thoughts. The Orthodox school of thought had only considered the American perspective of the conflict and therefore does not have the insights on the SU's insecurity that Source B has.

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B post revisionist

both have responsibility as

there was misunderstandings between each other because of their policies. They questioned and became suspicious of the intentions behind each other’s policies, believing that the other was antagonistic towards each other

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Source A represents the orthodox / traditionalist school of thought as Stalin was the one portrayed to be aggressively spreading his communistic ideas due to the prominence of soviet aggression in the 1950s. One example was the Berlin blockade in 1949 which asserted the US antagonist opinion of USSR. Hence, source A is vastly biased against the USSR making it different from source B.

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The sources are different as B blames both USSR and the USA for the Cold War due to their hostile treatment to the other. Source B was published in the post 1991 interpretation period. During which, Soviet archives were accessible to journalists and this provided a clearer understanding towards Soviet foreign policy. Through this revelation, the historian's writing Source B concluded that both the superpowers' differences in national interests, development of strong opposition to the other by having suspicions, hostile implementations and retaliations are the reason for the start of Cold War.

When the USA established Marshall plan in order to give support to poorer countries after WW2 so that they would not be propelled to support communism, USSR took this as a direct threat to its security since it would be surrounded by hostile democratic countries and therefore established its own economic (COMECON 1949) and political bloc (COMINFORM 1947) so as to safeguard itself by creating a buffer zone between itself and other western countries.

Consquently, the USA felt threatened by USSR after WW2 as USSR had prevented free and open elections in Poland, betraying the ahreement at Potsdam Conference as well as restricting access to the world market to prevent US capitalist influence upsurge in Eastern european states. This led the US to perceive that the USSR was actively and campaigning for communist influence towards other regions, which would mean that the US would have to trade to communist states hostile to the US, thus threatening the US sense of security.

Soviets were at fault for retaliating which worsened the situation through being more aggressive as an act of self defense to protect their national interest of communism

whereas USA should have been more willing to give in to USSR through communication to accept both ideological differences instead of creation of Marshall Plan which triggered Stalin’s sense of insecurity, worrying Eastern Europe will be influenced by USA .

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The sources are different as B blames both USSR and the USA for the Cold War due to their hostile treatment to the other. Source B was published in the post 1991 interpretation period. During which, Soviet archives were accessible to journalists and this provided a clearer understanding towards Soviet foreign policy. Through this revelation, the historian's writing Source B concluded that both the superpowers' differences in national interests, development of strong opposition to the other by having suspicions, hostile implementations and retaliations are the reason for the start of Cold War.

When the USA established Marshall plan in order to give support to poorer countries after WW2 so that they would not be propelled to support communism, USSR took this as a direct threat to its security since it would be surrounded by hostile democratic countries and therefore established its own economic (COMECON 1949) and political bloc (COMINFORM 1947) so as to safeguard itself by creating a buffer zone between itself and other western countries.

Consquently, the USA felt threatened by USSR after WW2 as USSR had prevented free and open elections in Poland, betraying the ahreement at Potsdam Conference as well as restricting access to the world market to prevent US capitalist influence upsurge in Eastern european states. This led the US to perceive that the USSR was actively and campaigning for communist influence towards other regions, which would mean that the US would have to trade to communist states hostile to the US, thus threatening the US sense of security.

Soviets were at fault for retaliating which worsened the situation through being more aggressive as an act of self defense to protect their national interest of communism

whereas USA should have been more willing to give in to USSR through communication to accept both ideological differences instead of creation of Marshall Plan which triggered Stalin’s sense of insecurity, worrying Eastern Europe will be influenced by USA .

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1.	How does this 'continuum' activity helped you to understand the element of ‘critical insight’ required for Part A SBS?

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1.	How does this 'continuum' activity helped you to understand the element of ‘critical insight’ required for Part A SBS?

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2.	How has this activity helped you to understand why history is a ‘construct’ ?

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2.	How has this activity helped you to understand why history is a ‘construct’ ?

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there’s always more than one side to history other than the winner’s side

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We have to be exact, cannot be explicit and sloppy

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I learned how to be able to answer the questions with four paragraphs and how to effectively find a similarity/difference (context/purpose/nature/who was the blamed etc.)

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there’s no one ‘bad guy’ ; everyone was a bad guy

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there’s no one ‘bad guy’ ; everyone was a bad guy

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its impt to contextualise

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Look out for the time that the source was taken from and make appropriate links

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One thing that made me re-evaluate how I write is writing the last two paragraphs on why are the sources similar or different by using contextual knowledge of context

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How everything has a reason and how one side can seem 'good' but can actually be the provocative one that instigates the other side and causes them to look evil

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How long should it take us to write SBS (a)

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there was no right or wrong party in the whole cold war

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Truman as most responsible for the outbreak

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Truman as most responsible for the outbreak

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Stalin as most responsible for the outbreak

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Stalin as most responsible for the outbreak

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Mao as most responsible for the outbreak

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Mao as most responsible for the outbreak

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Was the most willing to go into war.

He provided nk with military training and equipments, allowing north korea to have enough military to fight in the war

idk

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We still believe that the one most responsible for the Korean War was Kim Il Sung as the swift advance of North Korean forces alarmed the United States, leading President Truman to authorise military intervention. This shows his hostility and eagerness to unify Korea he was the one who caused the start of the Korean War.

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Stalin was responsible

Due to the eventual agreement from Stalin to support NK to invade SK

by agreeing to give aid to NK he caused the outbreak of the KW

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Deborah Valerie Daphne Aapeksha Kelly Jothiee Hashita

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Deborah Valerie Daphne Aapeksha Kelly Jothiee Hashita

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We still believe that it is Stalin. He helped North Korea launch a surprise attack on South Korea in 1950,and what the video shows corroborates with our previous argument that Stalin was most responsible for the outbreak of Korean War. Stalin had indeed provided military aid that enabled North Korea to effectively invade the south and gave the green light to Kim Il Sung despite initial hesitancy

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We still believe that Kim II Sung is the still the cause of the outbreak of Korean War. Kim II Sung launched the surprise attack on South Korea with the motivation to reunify Korea under his own rule.As well as pestering Stalin for his support and approval of the invasion.

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sygman rhee

he instigated tensions around the border like the one at the nk border where nk warships sunk. Although not successful ,These actions provoked north korea as such lead to their retaliations as the sk actions perceived as hostile and hence nk actions towars sk are one of defence . As such if they werent gonna take action, it may result in furthur continueous attacks which undermine their security

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We still believe Kim Il-sung is the most responsible for the outbreak of the Korean War. “On the morning of June 25th, 1950, as the sun rose over Mount Top Tybek, 75,000 troops from the Korean People's Army, accompanied by a cavalry of 120 Soviet T-34 tanks, descended from North Korea into South Korea.” and “With Stalin's eventual support, the Korean People's Army launched a surprise attack on South Korea in 1950, catching the world off guard.” This augments the assertion. “With Stalin’s eventual support” , it shows that it was due to Kim il sung’s persuasation, stalin changed his mind

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Mao to Kim Il Sung (Linus, Bea, Sim Lin, Jayden, Clarisse)

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Mao to Kim Il Sung (Linus, Bea, Sim Lin, Jayden, Clarisse)

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We now believe that Kim Il Sung is the one most responsible because he convinced stalin to give his permission to attack South Korea.

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Fengshuo Ming Liang Mill Hao Han Janelle

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Fengshuo Ming Liang Mill Hao Han Janelle

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We still believe that Kim Il Sung was the most responsible for the outbreak of war as he held personal ambition to reunify Korea and refused the legitimacy of the southern government. Evident from his request to the USSR for military support for his eventual invasion of the south. This is also seen from the chatgpt summary "prompting North Korea to seek approval from the Soviet Union for invasion. With Stalin's eventual support, the Korean People's Army launched a surprise attack on South Korea in 1950, catching the world off guard."

More importantly, Kim Il Sung was the one who ordered the his troops across the border into the south on 25th June 1950.

Truman was the least responsible for the outbreak of war and contributed the least to the rising of tensions. Evident from his reluctance to give heavy military support to the south prior to the invasion.

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What would YOU consider as CENTRAL in explaining the OUTBREAK of the Bosnian War in 1992? Why?

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What would YOU consider as CENTRAL in explaining the OUTBREAK of the Bosnian War in 1992? Why?