History
1) Who. in France. were the enemies of democracy in the 193os?
2) Why did the Vichy government appear so popular in 1940?
3) What did the Resistance resist?
4) Who collaborated with the Germans and why?
5) How did the Fourth Republic stl'vivc the Indochina war?
6) Why did the Fourth Republic not survive Algeria?
7) Who opposed dc Gaulle’s Algerian policy and why did they tail?
8) ‘A permanent coup d'état' (Francois Mitterrand). Is this a fair verdict on the
Filth Republic in the 19605?
9) Did students and workers really have anything in common in France in 1968?
10) ‘llistorians haw: understated the extent to which Right and Left had similar
preoccupations in France.‘ Discuss. You may. if you wish. confine your
answer to any one decade covered by this paper.
1 1) Why do the French ‘remember' panicqu ”poets oftheir past at particular
times? You may. if you wish. confine your answer to just one of the following
episodes: the Vichy regime. the Resistance. the Algerian War. the events of
1968.
12) When did de Gaulle become a Gaullist?
2007 Exam
I) Was there any serious threat to French democracy between 1934 and 1939?
2) Did internal political divisions impede the French war effort in 1940?
3) What did supporting the Vichy government in 1940 mean?
4) Why did so few Frenchmen join de Gaulle in 1940?
5) Discuss the role of the Communist party in the Resistance.
6) What were the ideological roots of collaboration?
7) From what did the Liberation liberate the French?
8) Why did French conservatism become stronger during the 195os?
9) Why did the French Fourth Republic not survive the Algerian War?
10) How far did de Gaulle know what he was going to do when he returned to
power in 1958?
11) What were students and workers rebelling against in 1968?
I ?\ Dismiss the was! in which EITHER Virhv OR the Aloerian War have linen