Oxford IB Diploma Programme: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Course Companion

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 old War crisis in Europe - the Hungarian uprising ; 2.6 The Suez Crisis ; 2.7 Congo Crisis 1960-1964 ; 2.85 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