AQA A Level History Breadth Study: The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865-1975 June 2017 question paper 7042/1K

Using your understanding of the historical context, assess how convincing the arguments in these three extracts are in relation to the American economy in the second half of the nineteenth century.

To what extent had any progress made by African-Americans during Radical Reconstruction been lost by 1890?

‘US foreign policy in the years 1919 to 1941 was based on isolationism.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent can the US policy of containment in Asia in the years 1945 to 1975 be described as a success?