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Year 12 (GCSE)

Coursework: Assignment on the Warsaw Ghetto (from Germany c.1918-1941)

The Cold War c1945-1991

Main Themes:

1. The actions taken by the USSR and USA over the spread of Communism in the Far East, and elsewhere from 1945-1991

2. The attempts by the USSR to keep control, and eventually to relax control of Eastern Europe and the reaction of the USA to this 1945-1991

Events/Developments:

1. Emergence of Cold War: post-war tensions, ‘Iron Curtain’, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Aid

2. Berlin Blockade, NATO, partition of Germany, emergence of Communist China

3. Policy of Containment, The Domino Theory: Causes and consequences of the Korean War

4. The Warsaw Pact and its implications for Super Power relations

5. The Hungarian Rising: its cause’s e.g. Khrushchev’s speech and the western response to the Rising.  The effect of this on Super Power relations

6. The Sino-Soviet Split emerges.  The erection of the Berlin Wall and its effect on Super Power relations

7. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Events leading up to it and its consequences

8. Policy of Containment; the Domino Theory: Causes and consequences of the Vietnam War

9. The Causes of the Czechoslovakian Rising, Prague Spring.  The Western response to the Rising and the effects of this on Super Power relations.  The reaction of China to this

10. Détente and the renewal of the Cold War.  China’s relationship with the USA and the Soviet reactions to this

11. Afghanistan and its effects on Super Power relations

Policy of “Glasnost”.  The Berlin was dismantled and the reunification of Germany.  The break-up of the USSR.  The effects of these events on Super Power relations

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