The Cold War - Superpower Tensions and Rivalries: IB History Course Book: Oxford IB Diploma Programme

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- 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 détente
- 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