Year 11

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Superpower Relations 1945-1990:

Through the content specified below, candidates should develop an overview of the following:the impact of the breakdown of wartime alliances; the struggle for worldwide supremacy; detente and the new order

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1. Ideological differences; Yalta and Potsdam ; between USA and USSR

2. Origins of the Cold War and the partition of Germany.

3. The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Soviet response.

4. NATO and the Warsaw Pact;

5. the arms race.

6. The nature of Cold War: The Berlin Wall ; Hungarian Uprising; Cuba; Berlin Blockade

7. Detente: Cuba to Afghanistan, and the roles of Reagan and Gorbachev;

8. The end of the Cold War.

More Revision Notes

1. Super PowerPractice Paper 1
2. Super PowerPractice Paper 2

4. Conflict in Vietnam 1954-1974:

This study will focus on: reasons for US intervention in Vietnam; why the USA was defeated; the impact of the war on the USA and Indo-China.

Topics:

1. Reasons for US involvement in Vietnam.

2. The nature of the conflict: guerrilla warfare;

3. Operation Rolling Thunder;

4. The Tet offensive.

5. The impact of the war on the peoples of Vietnam and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.

6. Reasons for the US defeat.

7. The reunification of Vietnam.

8. Consequences for the USA of its failure in Vietnam.

1. Vietnam - Kennedy

2. Vietnam