Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries Second Edition
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9781471839252
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 What you will study
2 How you will be assessed
3 About this book
Chapter 1 The origins of the Cold War, 1917–45
1 The ideology of the Cold War
2 The Soviet Union and the Western powers, 1917–41
3 The Grand Alliance, 1941–45
4 The liberation of Europe, 1943–45
5 The Yalta Conference, February 1945
Activities
Chapter 2 From wartime allies to post-war enemies, 1945–47
1 Transition from war to fragile peace, 1945–46
2 Germany, June 1945–April 1947
3 The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
4 The ‘Iron Curtain’
5 Key debate: Did the US or the USSR start the Cold War, 1945–47?
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 3 The impact of Cold War tensions on Germany and Europe, 1948–52
1 The division of Germany
2 Western European rearmament
3 The consolidation of the rival blocs
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 4 The spread of communism in Asia, 1945–54
1 Japan and the Cold War, 1945–52
2 The Chinese Civil War
3 The Korean War, 1950–53
4 Indochina, 1945–54
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 5 From détente to the Berlin Wall, 1953–61
1 The thaw, 1953–55
2 The emergence of the Third World and the Non-Aligned Movement
3 1956: The year of crises
4 The aftermath of the Hungarian and Suez Crises, 1957–58
5 The Berlin Crisis, 1958–61
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 6 The global Cold War, 1960–78
1 The Sino-Soviet split
2 The impact of Cold War tensions on the Congo, 1960–65
3 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
4 Vietnam, 1954–75
5 What was the impact of Cold War tensions on the Middle East, 1957–79?
6 The Cold War in Africa, 1964–79
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 7 The politics of détente, 1963–79
1 US–Soviet relations, 1963–72
2 Détente in Europe, 1963–69
3 Ostpolitik
4 Helsinki Accords and SALT II, 1975–79
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 8 The end of the Cold War
1 ‘New Cold War’, 1976–85
2 Mikhail Gorbachev and renewed détente, 1985–89
3 The collapse of communism in eastern Europe, 1989–90
4 Collapse of the USSR
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 9 Examination guidance
1 Preparing for Paper 2 examination questions
2 Examination advice and practice
Glossary
Timeline
Further reading
Internal assessment
Index
Backcover
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