Teach SQA Nat 5 The Cold War 1945–89, no prep needed!
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Part 10: The Cold War 1945–89
A study of relationships between East and West, examining reasons for tension and attempts to resolve areas of conflict, illustrating the themes of ideology, confrontation and international relations.
Key issues and description of content
Reasons for the emergence of the Cold War, up to 1955
- NATO and the Warsaw Pact: political beliefs, military rivalry and mutual suspicion; effects of the development of nuclear weapons on relationships. Korean War.
Flashpoints — Hungary, Berlin, and Cuba
- Areas of superpower rivalry 1950s–70:
- Hungarian revolution, 1956: reasons for revolution; Soviet response; wider significance.
- Berlin: reasons for importance, building of the Berlin Wall, impact on international relations.
- Cuba: Castro’s victory in Cuba. Reasons for development of Cuban Crisis: The Monroe Doctrine and US Foreign Policy, domestic pressures on Kennedy, domestic pressures on Khrushchev. Events of the crisis, impact on international relations.
The Vietnam War
- Vietnam: reasons for United States involvement and for failure to defeat the Vietcong; changing views on the war in the United States; impact on international relations.
Changing relations between the superpowers, 1968–89
- Attempts at détente: reasons for changing attitudes between the USA and the USSR – the danger of Mutually Assured Destruction; economic cost of arms race; American desire to get out of Vietnam. SALT and other agreements, Glasnost and Perestroika.
References for Part 10: The Cold War 1945–89
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