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AQA GCSE History: Paper 1 Option BC — Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972

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What this course covers

  • Part one — The origins of the Cold War

    • 1.1 – The end of the Second World War
    • 1.2 – The Iron Curtain and the evolution of East-West rivalry

  • Part two — The development of the Cold War

    • 2.1 – The significance of events in Asia for superpower relations
    • 2.2 – Military rivalries
    • 2.3 – The ‘Thaw’

  • Part three — Transformation of the Cold War

    • 3.1 – The Berlin Wall: reasons for its construction and Kennedy’s response
    • 3.2 – Tensions over Cuba
    • 3.3 – Czechoslovakia
    • 3.4 – Easing of tension

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