Enable students to succeed in their exam with Superpower Relations. This study aid contains the key information that students need for Edexcel History A2 Unit 3 Option E2 clearly laid out with Examiners & Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure higher grades. A world divided: Superpower relations 1944-90 covers all the content & skills your students will need for their Edexcel A2 Unit 3 Option E2 examination including: * Chapter 1: CONTROVERSY A: WHY DID THE COLD WAR BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS EMERGE IN THE YEARS TO 1953? Including
- The origins of the Cold War 1917-44; early stages of the Cold War 1945-9; Stalinisation in Eastern Europe 1945-53; Korean War 1950-3; critical assessment of the key interpretations
- ideological confrontation great power rivalry responsibility of the leaders misjudgement * Chapter 2: THE POST-STALIN THAW & THE BID FOR PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE Including
- The USSR after Stalin; Soviet moves towards peaceful co-existence & the US response; the end of the thaw * Chapter 3: THE ARMS RACE 1949-63 Including
- Development of weapon technology & delivery systems; the balance of terror; the Cuban Missile Crisis * Chapter 4: SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS 1949-76 Including
- Sino-Soviet relations 1949-50; consolidation of the friendship 1950-4; deterioration 1954-8; confrontation 1959-69; ping-pong diplomacy; Sino-US relations 1972-6 * Chapter 5: DETENTE 1969-80 Including
- The origins & features of detente; the reality & success of detente 1973-6; critics & detente in decline; the end of detente 1979-81 * Chapter 6: CONTROVERSY B: WHY DID THE COLD WAR COME TO AN END IN THE 1980s? Including
- US foreign policy in the 1980s; weakening Soviet control over Eastern Europe; the end of the Cold War; critical assessment of the key interpretations
- the role of personalities the impact of economic factors people power in the Soviet Bloc the moral bankruptcy of communism * Chapter 7: EXAM SKILLS * Chapter 8: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS * Index