The Cold War - Superpower Tensions and Rivalries: IB History Print and Online Pack: Oxford IB Diploma Programme
Published on 8. October 2015
Book
Mixed media product
232 pages
978-0-19-835491-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative approach to learning.
Cover the new syllabus in the right level of depth, with rich, thorough subject content.
Developed directly with the IB, with the most comprehensive support for the new syllabus with complete support for the comparative approach.
Truly engage learners with topical, relevant material that convincingly connects learning with the modern, global world.
Streamline your planning, with a clear and thorough structure helping you logically progress through the syllabus.
Build the advanced-level skills learners need for Paper 2, with the student-led approach driving active skills development and strengthening exam performance.
Integrate approaches to learning with ATLs like thinking, communication, research and social skills built directly into learning.
Help learners think critically about improving performance with extensive examiner insight and samples based on the latest exam format.
This pack includes one print Course Book and one online Course Book. The online Course Book will be available on Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2023. Access is facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Access may be transferred once to a new user, once the initial user no longer requires access. You will need to contact your local Educational Consultant to arrange this.
Cover the new syllabus in the right level of depth, with rich, thorough subject content.
Developed directly with the IB, with the most comprehensive support for the new syllabus with complete support for the comparative approach.
Truly engage learners with topical, relevant material that convincingly connects learning with the modern, global world.
Streamline your planning, with a clear and thorough structure helping you logically progress through the syllabus.
Build the advanced-level skills learners need for Paper 2, with the student-led approach driving active skills development and strengthening exam performance.
Integrate approaches to learning with ATLs like thinking, communication, research and social skills built directly into learning.
Help learners think critically about improving performance with extensive examiner insight and samples based on the latest exam format.
This pack includes one print Course Book and one online Course Book. The online Course Book will be available on Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2023. Access is facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Access may be transferred once to a new user, once the initial user no longer requires access. You will need to contact your local Educational Consultant to arrange this.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-835491-8 (9780198354918)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Growth and tension - the origins of the Cold War 1943-1949 ; 1.1 The formation of the grand alliance to 1943 ; 1.2 The wartime conferences 1943-1945 ; 1.3 The emergence of superpower rivalry in Europe 1945-1949 ; 1.4 Cold War crisis in Europe ; 1.5 The atom bomb ; 1.6 The roles of the USA and the Soviet Union in the origins of the Cold War ; 1.7 Case Study 1: Yugoslavia under Tito ; 2. Global spread of the Cold War 1945-1962 ; 2.1 Emergence of superpower rivalry in Asia 1945-1949 ; 2.2 Communist success in China and its relations with the USSR and the USA 1946-1949 ; 2.3 North Korean invasion of South Korea 1950 ; 2.4 Origins of the Non-Aligned Movement ; 2.5 Cold War crisis in Europe - the Hungarian uprising ; 2.6 The Suez Crisis ; 2.7 Congo Crisis 1960-1964 ; 2.8 Berlin Crisis and the Berlin Wall ; 2.9 Sino-Soviet tensions, the Taiwan Strait crises and the split ; 2.10 Cuban Missile Crisis ; 2.11 Case Study 2: Guatemala during the Cold War ; 3. Reconciliation and renewed conflict 1963-1979 ; 3.1 The invasion of Czechoslovakia ; 3.2 Arms race and detente ; 3.3 Sino-US agreements ; 3.4 The election, presidency and overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile ; 3.5 Cold War crisis in Asia Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 ; 3.6 Case Study 3: Vietnam ; 4. The end of the Cold War ; 4.1 Eastern European dissent ; 4.2 Cold War crisis: The Able Archer crisis 1983 ; 4.3 Gorbachev's policies ; 4.4 The effect of Gorbachev's policies on Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War ; 4.5 The end of the USSR 1989-1991