AQA A Level History Depth Study: International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890-1941 (A-level only) June 2017 question paper 7042/2K

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the potential threats to international stability in Europe by 1900 posed by colonial rivalry.

‘Desire to support Britain was more important than German provocation in bringing about the USA’s intervention in the First World War.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The collapse of autocratic empires at the end of the First World War was due to Nationalist ambitions.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent were Britain and France responsible for the failure to uphold the post-war peace settlements in the years 1933 to 1937?