How did the Cold War develop? 1943–56

Key areas:

• The widening gulf between the Allies: the development of the ‘iron curtain’ and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the Allied response 1945–47.
• The development of the Cold War, 1948–49 following the Berlin Airlift.
• Hungary: the tightening of control.
  

Content

The Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

The attitudes of Stalin and Truman and the ideological differences between the superpowers.

The establishment and control of the Soviet satellite states

Cominform and Comecon.

The growing involvement of the USA in Europe

The Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan

Bizonia

The Berlin Blockade/Airlift

The formation of NATO.

Military developments and the beginnings of the arms race.

The impact of Soviet rule on Hungary

Rakosi

De-Stalinisation and optimism

The Hungarian Revolution: Nagy and his demands, Soviet reaction and uprising, the death of Nagy, the re-establishment of Soviet control and international
reaction.

The Cold War, 1956 - 1969.

The Berlin Crisis

The refugee problem
Khrushchev's challenge to the USA
Summit Conference and Eisenhower
Challenge to Kennedy
Construction of the Berlin Wall and its impact
Kennedy's visit to Berlin, 1963.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

• How did the USA react to the Cuban Revolution?
• Why did Khrushchev put missiles into Cuba?
• Why did Kennedy react as he did?
• Who won the Cuban Missile Crisis?

 

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