AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Cold War, c1945-1991 June 2024 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 relations between the USA and USSR in the years 1972 to 1979.

‘American economic interests were the main reason for the creation of East and West Germany by 1949.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The USA’s policy of containment in Asia was a failure in the years 1949 to 1954.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent was the Soviet Union and its leadership of the Eastern bloc weakened by the crisis in Czechoslovakia in 1968?