AQA GCSE History Paper 1 Section B Wider World Depth Study: Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972 June 2025 question paper 8145/1B/C

Source A supports the friendship between China and the USSR. How do you know?

Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.

Study Sources B and C in the Sources Booklet.

How useful are Sources B and C to an historian studying the Space Race?

Explain your answer using Sources B and C and your contextual knowledge.

Write an account of how the division of Germany affected Superpower relations in the years 1945 to 1949.

‘The Cuban Missile Crisis was the main reason for increased tension between the Superpowers during the 1960s.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

Explain your answer.

[SPaG 4 marks]