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FIFTH YEAR GCSE SYLLABUS

Unit 3: This unit is Option W (ii) - International Relations 1945-63.


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We study this unit in the Lent term of the fifth form.

It is examined as part of PAPER 1

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Key Issue:- Why did the USA and USSR become rivals in the period 1945-1949?
East West ideological gap
Decisions made at Yalta and Potsdam and their importance
Attitudes of Stalin and Truman
Soviet expansion into Central and Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
Truman doctrine
Marshall plan
Berlin 1945-48
Berlin blockade and airlift.


Key Issue: How did the Cold War develop in the period 1949-1963?
NATO and Warsaw pact
the beginnings of the Arms race
Korean War
Krushchev’s policy of peaceful coexistence and the USA’s response
Hungary 1956
arms/space race
U2 incident, 1960
Berlin Wall
President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin, 1963.


Key issue: How close to war did the world come over Cuba in 1962?
The background to Cuba
Castro
friendship with USSR
Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
the crisis of 1962 and its results.

 

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