Edexcel A Level History Paper 3 options: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850-2009 / Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882-2004 June 2018 question paper 9HI0/39

Study Source 1 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

Assess the value of the source for revealing the reasons for the election of Barack Obama as senator for Illinois in 2004 and the nature of his subsequent campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States.

Explain your answer, using the source, the information given about its origin and your own knowledge about the historical context.

Study Source 2 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.

Assess the value of the source for revealing the role of Alastair Campbell in justifying the government’s position on the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and his impact on the attitudes of the media towards the Labour government.

Explain your answer, using the source, the information given about its origin and your own knowledge about the historical context.

3 ‘The exclusion of black Americans from the vote was the most damaging setback to their fight for civil rights in the years 1883–c1900’.

How far do you agree with this statement?

How far was the influence of southern whites in the Democratic Party the chief cause of the failure to address the grievances of black Americans during the New Deal years, 1933–41?

How accurate is it to say that Northcliffe was more responsible than Beaverbrook for Lloyd George’s succession to Asquith as Prime Minister in 1916?

6 ‘The most significant aspect of the British media’s coverage of the Falklands War was that they were positive towards the Thatcher government’s conduct of the conflict.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

7 ‘The inner-city riots in Watts in 1965 were the most damaging obstacle to desegregation in the USA in the years 1850–2009.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How far was the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 the key turning point in the shaping of white attitudes towards race relations in the United States in the years 1850–2009?

How far do you agree that the most significant change to women’s family lives, in the years 1882–2004, resulted from the introduction of Marie Stopes’ family-planning clinics from 1921?

How far do you agree that increased affluence was mainly responsible for the changing patterns of leisure in the home in the years 1882–2004?