My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
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Key topic 1: The origins of the Cold War, 1941–58
1 Early tension between East and West 1
1.1 The ideological differences between the superpowers
1.2 The Grand Alliance
2 Early tension between East and West 2
2.1 The creation of Soviet satellite states
2.2 The Long and Novikov telegrams
3 The development of the Cold War 1
3.1 The Truman Doctrine, 1947
3.2 The Marshall Plan, 1947
3.3 Cominform and Comecon
4 The development of the Cold War 2
4.1 The Berlin Crisis, 1948–49
4.2 The formation of NATO, 1949
5 The Cold War intensifies 1
5.1 The Warsaw Pact, 1955
5.2 The arms race
6 The Cold War intensifies 2
6.1 The Hungarian uprising, 1956
6.2 International reaction
Key topic 2: Cold War crises, 1958–70
1 Increased tension over Berlin, 1958–61
1.1 Problems in East Germany
1.2 The Berlin Wall, 1961
2 The Cuban Missile Crisis
2.1 Increased tension over Cuba
2.2 Events of the Cuban Missile Crisis
3 The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
3.1 Increased tension over Czechoslovakia
3.2 The Prague Spring
3.3 Re-establishing Soviet control
3.4 International reaction
Key topic 3: The end of the Cold War, 1970–91
1 Attempts to reduce tension between East and West 1
1.1 Détente in the 1970s
1.2 SALT 1
1.3 The Helsinki Agreements
1.4 SALT 2
2 Attempts to reduce tension between East and West 2
2.1 Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’
2.2 The summit conferences
2.3 The INF Treaty, 1987
3 Flashpoints
3.1 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
3.2 Reagan and the ‘Second Cold War’
4 The collapse of Soviet control of Eastern Europe 1
4.1 The impact of Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’ on Eastern Europe
5 The collapse of Soviet control of Eastern Europe 2
5.1 The fall of the Berlin Wall
5.2 The collapse of the Soviet Union
5.3 The end of the Warsaw Pact and Cold War
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Question 1: Consequence
Question 2: Narrative account
Question 3: Importance
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