Edexcel GCSE History (9-1): Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91 eBook
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English
ISBN
9781382029834
Contents
Introduction to the series
Timeline
Part 1: The origins of the Cold War 1941–58
Chapter 1: Early tensions between the East and West
1.1 What was the Cold War?
1.2A/B Capitalism vs communism
1.3 How much of an alliance was the Grand Alliance?
1.4 Yalta: the successful conference?
1.5 Potsdam: the bad-tempered conference?
1.6 What was the impact of the atomic bomb?
1.7 The Iron Curtain descends
Chapter 2: The development of the Cold War
2.1 Containing communism: what was the Truman Doctrine?
2.2 What was the Marshall Plan?
2.3 How did the USSR respond to the Marshall Plan?
2.4 Berlin divided
2.5 The Berlin Crisis: Stalin’s blockade
2.6 The Berlin Crisis: the airlift and its impact
Chapter 3: The Cold War intensifies
3.1 The arms race
3.2 NATO and the Warsaw Pact: new alliances
3.3 How real was ‘the thaw’ after Stalin’s death?
3.4 ‘Seven days of freedom’: the Hungarian Uprising, 1956
3.5 How did Khrushchev and the world react to the Hungarian Uprising?
Exam practice ‘Explain two consequences…’ questions
Part 2: Cold War crises 1958–70
Chapter 4: Flashpoint: Berlin
4.1 Berlin: Khrushchev’s ultimatum and the 1961 Vienna Summit
4.2 ‘Close the border!’ The Berlin Wall
4.3 ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’: the USA’s reaction to the Berlin Wall
Chapter 5: Flashpoint: Cuba
5.1 America’s backyard: revolution in Cuba
5.2 What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
5.3A/B The Cuban Missile Crisis
5.4 The consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 6: Flashpoint: Czechoslovakia
6.1A/B The Prague Spring
6.2 How did the world respond to the Prague Spring?
6.3 What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Exam practice ‘Write a narrative account…’ questions
Part 3: The End of the Cold War 1970–91
Chapter 7: Changing relationship between the superpowers
7.1 The start of Détente: hope for better relations
7.2 A false dawn: the reality of Détente
7.3 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
7.4 The USA’s response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
7.5 What was the Second Cold War?
Chapter 8: The collapse of the Soviet Union
8.1A/B Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’ and the Sinatra Doctrine
8.2A/B How did the Soviet Union lose its grip on Eastern Europe?
8.3 The fall of the Berlin Wall
8.4A/B The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
8.5 Why did the Cold War end?
Exam practice ‘Explain two of the following’ questions
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
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