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Oxford IB Diploma Programme: The Cold War - Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Course Companion
Alexis Mamaux
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: The Cold War - Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Course Companion
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Language
English
ISBN
9780198374329
Front Cover
Title Page
Course Companion definition
The IB learner Profile
A note on academic honesty
Contents
Your guide to Paper 2
Introduction
1 Growth of tension - The orgins of The Cold War, 1943-1949
1.1 The formation of the Grand Alliance
1.2 The wartime conferences, 1943–1945
1.3 The emergence of superpower rivalry in Europe, 1945–1949
1.4 The Berlin Blockade
1.5 The atom bomb and Soviet achievement of nuclear parity
1.6 The roles of the USA and the Soviet Union in the origins of the Cold War
Exam-style questions and further reading
Case Study 1: Yugoslavia Under Tito
Planning an essay
2 Global Spread of the Cold War,1945-1964
2.1 Emergence of superpower rivalry in Asia,1945–1949
2.2 Communist success in China and its relations with the USSR and the USA,1946–1949
2.3 north Korean invasion of South Korea, 1950
2.4 origins of the non-Aligned movement
2.5 The hungarian uprising
2.6 The Suez Crisis
2.7 Congo Crisis, 1960–1964
2.8 Berlin Crisis and the Berlin wall
2.9 Sino–Soviet tensions, the Taiwan Strait and the split
2.10 Cuban missile Crisis
Exam-style questions and further reading
Case Study 2: Guatemala During The Cold War
writing an introduction
3 Reconciliation and renewed conflict, 1963-1979
3.1 The invasion of Czechoslovakia
3.2 arms race and détente
3.3 sino–us agreements
3.4 The election, presidency and overthrow of salvador allende in Chile
3.5 Cold War crisis in asia: soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
exam-style questions and further reading
Case Study 3: Vitnam and The Cold War
Writing the body of the essay
4 The end of The Cold War
4.1 Eastern European dissent
4.2 Cold War crisis: the Able Archer crisis,1983
4.3 Gorbachev’s policies
4.4 the effect of Gorbachev’s policies on Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
4.5 the end of the USSR, 1989–1991
Exam-style questions and further reading
Writing the conclusion
Index
Index
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