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TOPIC 5 PAPER 2 THE COLD WAR MAJOR THEMES ORIGINS OF EAST-WEST RIVALRY • MUTUAL DISTRUST • FEAR AND SUSPICION – EVIDENCED IN WARTIME CONFERENCES • YALTA • POTSDAM • USA AND USSR: – WARTIME ALLIES BECOME POST-WAR ENEMIES – WHY? NATURE OF THE COLD WAR • IDEOLOGICAL OPPOSITION –WHAT ARE THE TWO IDEOLOGIES? COMMUNISM VS CAPITALISM • COMMUNISM – WORLD REVOLUTION – PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY – “COMMON GOOD” – TOTALITARISM • CAPITALISM – – – – – – – PRIVATE PROPERTY FREE TRADE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS INCENTIVES MARKETS COMPETITION DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES NATURE OF THE COLD WAR SUPERPOWERS AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE • USA – – – – – WESTERN EUROPE TAIWAN JAPAN SOUTH KOREA ISRAEL • USSR – – – – – – EASTERN EUROPE CHINA CUBA NORTH KOREA NORTH VIETNAM EGYPT NATURE OF COLD WAR OPPOSING ALLIANCES • USA – NATO – SEATO – CENTO (MIDDLE EAST) – OAS • USSR – – – – WARSAW PACT SIN0-SOVIET SPLIT YUGOSLAVIA TRADE PACT WITH CUBA – AID TO NORTH KOREA AND VIETNAM NATURE OF COLD WAR ARMS RACE • ABM (ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILES) • ICBM (INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES) • HYDROGEN BOMB COLD WAR DEVELOPMENTS • WESTERN EUROPE – TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947) – MARSHALL PLAN (1947) – GERMANY ESPECIALLY BERLIN (1948) – NATO (1949) – CREATION OF WEST GERMANY (1949) • EASTERN EUROPE – SATELLITES (19461948) – COMECON (1947-1948) – WARSAW PACT(1955) – BERLIN WALL (1961) COLD WAR DEVELOPMENTS • US POLICY – CONTAINMENT AS AN ANSWER TO SPREAD OF COMMUNISM • EVOLVING RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION – BRINKMANSHIP – PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE – DETENTE COLD WAR DEVELOPMENTS • RELATED WARS • NON-ALLIGNMENT – CUBA – YUGOSLAVIA – KOREA – INDIA – VIETNAM – PAKISTAN – MIDDLE EAST – NEW NATIONS OF AFRICA COLD WAR DEVELOPMENTS • SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES • HUMAN RIGHTS • POVERTY • GENDER ISSUES – ROLE OF WOMEN – SUFFRAGE – AND EDUCATION – DIVORCE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS • UNITED NATIONS – EQUALITY END OF THE COLD WAR-1991 • ARMS LIMITATIONS • DÉTENTE • PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST • SOVIET UNION BREAKS APART (1991) • OPPOSITION TO COMMUNISM IN THE SATELLITE COUNTRIES – HUNGARY (1956) – CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1948) – POLAND-(1956) • SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT (1981) – END OF SOVIET OCCUPATION IN EAST GERMANY (1989) THE COLD WAR 1960-1979 • PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE: CHALLENGES AND DÉTENTE • NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL – SALT – START • DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA ESPECIALLY CUBA • THE VIETNAM WAR • DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMANY AND THE EASTERN BLOC • SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS THE COLD WAR 1960-1979 • PRESCRIBED SUBJECT 3 • DOCUMENT QUESTION • PAPER 1 SAMPLE QUESTION • ANALYZE THE ROLE OF GERMANY IN THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLD WAR. SAMPLE QUESTION • IN WHAT WAYS AND FOR WHAT REASONS DID SUPER-POWER RIVALRY DOMINATE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BETWEEN 1945-1960? SAMPLE QUESTION • COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE AIMS AND POLICIES OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION AND THE WARSAW PACT UP TO 1970.