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1 The Cold War THE COLD WAR REVISION IGCSE HISTORY

2 Cold War themes Ask yourself... What is meant by ‘cold war’?
Why did the Cold War begin? Who was to blame and why? Specifics Did the world really come close to nuclear disaster?

3 Ideological differences
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4 TIMELINE 1945: February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins
1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war 1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan 1945: August Japanese surrender End of World War II 1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech 1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War 1947: June -- Marshall Plan is announced 1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia 1948: June Berlin Blockade begins 1949: July -- NATO ratified 1949: May Berlin Blockade ends 1949: September -- Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China 1949: September -- Soviets explode first atomic bomb 1950: February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt 1950: June -- Korean War begins1953: June Rosenberg executions 1953: July -- Korean War ends 1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel 1955: May -- Warsaw Pact formed 1956: October - November -- Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back 1958: November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin 1959: January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro 1959: September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

5 1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U. S
1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory 1960: November -- John F. Kennedy elected President 1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion 1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military 1961: August Berlin border closed 1961: August Construction of Berlin Wall begins 1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased 1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis 1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified 1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1964: August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident 1965: July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam 1968: August -- Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

6 1973: January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States
1975: April North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam 1985: -- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union 1986: -- Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites 1986: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe 1987: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty 1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent 1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent 1989: November -- Berlin Wall falls 1989: December -- Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends 1990: October 3 -- Germany reunited 1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends 1991: August -- End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends

7 The Early Years of the Cold War

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9 Examples of Paper 1 Questions...

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