AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Cold War, c1945-1991 June 2019 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 reasons for Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

‘US policies in Asia, in the years 1953 to 1959, were successful.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The USA was more responsible than the USSR for the crisis over Cuba in the years 1961 to 1962.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How significant were economic problems in the USSR and its satellite states in explaining the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989?