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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
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PRIVATE PROPERTY
FREE TRADE
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
INCENTIVES
MARKETS
COMPETITION
DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPLES
NATURE OF THE COLD WAR
SUPERPOWERS AND SPHERES
OF INFLUENCE
• USA
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WESTERN EUROPE
TAIWAN
JAPAN
SOUTH KOREA
ISRAEL
• USSR
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EASTERN EUROPE
CHINA
CUBA
NORTH KOREA
NORTH VIETNAM
EGYPT
NATURE OF COLD WAR
OPPOSING ALLIANCES
• USA
– NATO
– SEATO
– CENTO (MIDDLE
EAST)
– OAS
• USSR
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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.