Revision+Guide

=Term 4 Exam prep=

There are 14 topics that should be studied. For each point, you should create a brief overview, describing and explaining the issue. You can work together to create a revision guide. Use your book, your notes, the wiki and the internet.


 * 1) **The background to the Cold War**
 * 2) Damage caused by WWII
 * 3) Conflicting ideologies
 * 4) Define cold war
 * 5) **The Allied conferences at Yalta & Potsdam**
 * 6) Yalta, Feb. 1945
 * 7) Potsdam, July-August 1945
 * 8) Major decisions
 * 9) **The USSR’s policy on Eastern Europe**
 * 10) Creating satellites
 * 11) **American policy on Europe**
 * 12) Greece
 * 13) Truman Doctrine, 1947
 * 14) Marshall Aid, 1947
 * 15) **Berlin Blockade, 1948-9**
 * 16) Reasons for blockade
 * 17) Allied response
 * 18) Consequences
 * 19) **NATO, Warsaw Pact & other alliances**
 * 20) Cominform, Comecon
 * 21) NATO
 * 22) Warsaw Pact
 * 23) Reasons for formation
 * 24) **Arms race, Reasons and Consequences / Results**
 * 25) Nuclear arms race
 * 26) Space race
 * 27) Consequences
 * 28) **Korean War, 1950-53**
 * 29) Causes of conflict
 * 30) Consequences / Results
 * 31) **Crises in Europe**
 * 32) Hungarian uprising, 1956 (very briefly)
 * 33) U-2 incident, 1960
 * 34) Berlin Wall, 1961
 * 35) Reasons for wall
 * 36) **Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962**
 * 37) Causes
 * 38) Define / Explain
 * 39) US & Soviet reaction
 * 40) Resolution & effects
 * 41) **Vietnam War, 1965 - 1973**
 * 42) Causes and results
 * 43) Vietcong
 * 44) **Successes of détente in 1970s**
 * 45) Reasons for détente
 * 46) Successes
 * 47) SALT
 * 48) Détente with China
 * 49) Failure of détente in late 1970s
 * 50) **Soviet involvement in Afghanistan in 1980s (briefly)**
 * 51) Reasons for invasion
 * 52) Consequences
 * 53) **Solidarity in Poland**
 * 54) Describe Solidarity
 * 55) Consequences for Eastern Europe / USSR
 * 56) **Gorbachev & collapse of Communism**
 * 57) Gorbachev, Glasnost. Perestroika
 * 58) Collapse of Soviet control in Central & Eastern Europe
 * 59) Collapse of USSR & Communism