History (AS)·International relations since 1919 · NSSCAS 1.4
Peacemaking in 1945 & the Cold War: co-existence and tension
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In 1945 the world made peace — and then, within months, split into two hostile camps in the long struggle we call the Cold War. We'll meet the wartime allies at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, watch the new United Nations rise, and follow how a cracked friendship became an Iron Curtain, a Berlin Airlift and, at Cuba in 1962, the very brink of nuclear war. All the way through we'll trace the topic's two moods — co-existence and tension — and finish with the great historians' argument every examiner loves: which side was really to blame?
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCAS History (AS) 1.4):
- Assess the effectiveness of the peacemaking during and after the Second World War
- Discuss the events of the Cold War in terms of co-existence and tension
- Explain the origins of superpower rivalry between the USA and the USSR
- Evaluate which superpower was more to blame for the Cold War
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