Superpower relations & the Cold War

Explain one consequence of the Bay of Pigs incident (1961).

Explain one consequence of the Olympic boycotts in the early 1980s for superpower relations.

Write a narrative account analysing the key developments in US-Soviet relations in the years 1941–45.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of Comecon (1949) for the development of the Cold War.

• The importance of attempts at nuclear arms control in the years 1963–68 for superpower relations.

• The importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) for the end of the Cold War.

Explain two consequences of the Prague Spring (Czechoslovakia, 1968).

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Consequence 2:

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the collapse of Soviet control of Eastern Europe in the years 1985–91.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the Yalta Conference (February 1945) for relations between East and West.

• The importance of Khrushchev’s Berlin ultimatum (1958) for tension between East and West.

• The importance of SALT 1 for relations between the USA and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Explain two consequences of détente in the 1970s.

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Consequence 2:

Write a narrative account analysing US-Soviet relations in the years 1945–47.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the formation of the Warsaw Pact (1955) for Superpower relations.

• The importance of Soviet relations with Cuba for tension between East and West in the 1960s.

• The importance of the USA’s Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) for US-Soviet relations.

Explain two consequences of Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’.

Consequence 1

Consequence 2

Write a narrative account analysing the key developments of the Cold War crisis over Berlin in the years 1958–63.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the Marshall Plan (1947) for relations between East and West.

• The importance of the arms race in the years 1949–58 for the development of the Cold War.

• The importance of the Carter Doctrine (1980) for relations between the USA and the USSR.

Explain two consequences of the Tehran Conference (1943).

Consequence 1

Consequence 2

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the ‘Second Cold War’ (1979–85).

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the Berlin Crisis (1948–49) for the development of the Cold War.

• The importance of the Prague Spring for relations between East and West.

• The importance of détente for relations between the superpowers in the 1970s.

Explain two consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Consequence 1

Consequence 2

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the formation of NATO (1949) for the development of the Cold War.

• The importance of the summit meetings of 1959–61 for relations between East and West.

• The importance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) for superpower relations.

Explain two consequences of the Cuban Revolution.

Consequence 1

Consequence 2

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the Potsdam Conference for early Cold War tension between the USA and the Soviet Union.

• The importance of the refugee problem in Berlin for increasing tensions between East and West in the years 1958–61.

• The importance of the ‘Second Cold War’ for relations between the Superpowers.

Explain two consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Write a narrative account analysing the key events of détente during the 1970s.

Explain two of the following:

• The importance of the USA’s development of the atomic bomb for relations between the superpowers in the years 1945-49.

• The importance of the Bay of Pigs incident for relations between the USA and the Soviet Union.

• The importance of the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Soviet Union’s control of Czechoslovakia.