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You should always look at the number of marks offered for each question to help indicate to you how many points you should include in your answer. For example, for a 3 / 4 mark source question it would be...

The key to analysing a primary source is remembering what it is; it's a source from which we want to get useful historical evidence. But, if it is a primary source, then we must remember that it is comple...

The 1929 Wall Street Crash caused huge economic problems for Germany. Hitler and his party capitalised on the social unrest generated by these economic problems to secure support. He was also a very motiv...

When Kennedy came into power in January 1961 he made a famous speech in which he said they would fight anyone to 'assure the survival and success of liberty'. By 1961 Fidel Castro was firmly on the side o...

Historians have disagreed on the start of the Cold War.

For those historians like Arthur Schlesinger who emphasise ideological conflict between the two superpowers, the Cold War began in 1917 with ...