Describe Questions Advice Try to give 4 details/examples OR briefly explain 2 points. No more than 8 lines!
How to revise Look at each area on your PLC. For each one create a small spiderdiagram or list with 3-4 examples/points that would help you to describe what it was. Look at the next three slides for ideas and then try and answer the questions that follow!
Ideological differences Change in leadership Ideological differences US policy Why did relations break down? Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe Nuclear race No common enemy Explain opportunity: What caused the breakdown? Why did they not trust/like each other?
New currency in West Microcosm Stalin’s gap Berlin blockade – 1948 -9 Stalin’s abandonment Air lift blockade Explain opportunity: Why did Stalin blockade Berlin? What does it reveal about Cold War?
Division of world powers/ideologies Defensive alliance Division of world powers/ideologies NATO 1949 Warsaw pact Explain opportunities: Why was this created? Why did it worsen relations?
Describe the ideological differences between America and USSR
Describe the US policy of containment
Describe the differences between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences
Describe how Stalin expanded his control of Eastern Europe after WW2
Describe America’s policies in response to the threat of Soviet expansionism after WW2
Describe the Berlin blockade