Core - Who was to blame for the Cold War

Worked examples (6)

• 1Describe the differences between capitalism and communism
• 2Describe the features of the Soviet communist system
• 3Explain US-Soviet suspicion before 1945
• 4Explain why the wartime alliance was a 'marriage of convenience'
• 5Judgement: was ideology the main cause of the Cold War?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a Cold War propaganda poster

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• 1Describe what was agreed at Yalta
• 2Describe the disagreements at Potsdam
• 3Explain why there was more disagreement at Potsdam than at Yalta
• 4Explain why the atomic bomb damaged US-Soviet relations
• 5Judgement: was Potsdam the moment the alliance broke down?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: the Iron Curtain speech

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• 1Describe the methods Stalin used in Eastern Europe
• 2Describe the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia
• 3Explain why Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe
• 4Explain why Soviet control of Eastern Europe alarmed the West
• 5Judgement: were Stalin's actions defensive or aggressive?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the Eastern Europe takeover

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• 1Describe the Truman Doctrine
• 2Describe the Marshall Plan
• 3Explain why the USA introduced the Marshall Plan
• 4Explain why Stalin opposed the Marshall Plan
• 5Judgement: was the Marshall Plan mainly about American self-interest?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: 'two halves of the same walnut'

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• 1Describe the Berlin Blockade
• 2Describe the Berlin Airlift
• 3Explain why Stalin blockaded West Berlin
• 4Explain why the West responded with an airlift
• 5Judgement: was the Berlin Blockade a defeat for Stalin?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: the Berlin Airlift

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• 1Describe NATO
• 2Describe the Warsaw Pact
• 3Explain why NATO was formed
• 4Explain why the USSR created the Warsaw Pact
• 5Judgement: did the two alliances make Europe safer?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the two alliances

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• 1Explain why the USA feared the USSR
• 2Explain why the USSR feared the USA
• 3Judgement: was the USSR to blame for the Cold War?
• 4Judgement: was the USA to blame for the Cold War?
• 5Judgement: was the Cold War caused by mutual misunderstanding?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: contrasting views of blame

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