AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Cold War, c1945-1991 June 2018 question paper 7042/2R

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the motives for US intervention in the Caribbean and Central America in the years 1982 to 1984.

‘The USA was responsible for the division of Germany into two separate states by 1949.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How effective was Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful co-existence in reducing Cold War tensions in the years 1955 to 1961?

‘Summit diplomacy, in the years 1985 to 1988, succeeded because of Mikhail Gorbachev.’

Assess the validity of this view.