Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself

01: The origins of the cold war: Definition of the term: The great powers: Conflicting ideologies Communism and Capitalism: Background to their relationship prior to the Second World War: Uneasy wartime allies: Conflicting aims as the Second World War nears its end02: Europe at the end of the Second World War: Yalta: Potsdam: Increasing tension between the Big Three: The Iron Curtain descends03: Containment: Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe: The Greek Civil War: Tito’s stand against Stalin in 1948: The Truman Doctrine: The Marshall Plan04: Germany: Effects of the Second World War: Nuremberg Trials: Berlin Blockade and Airlift how the West kept its toehold behind the iron curtain: NATO & Warsaw Pact05: The Far East: China 1949-50: The Korean War and Malay emergency: The Domino Theory06: The Thaw: Détente in the 1950s: Changes in the USSR – Khrushchev and de Stalinisation: Hungarian uprising – Why didn’t the West implement the Roll Back theory?07: The Arms and Space Race: Nuclear arms race – 1960: The Space Race – Sputnik and Flopnik: Gary Powers and the U2 incident: Failure of the Paris Summit: Berlin Crisis – the wall and stand off at checkpoint Charlie: Ostpolitik08: Kennedy and Khrushchev: The Cuban Missile Crisis:- Castro v. Batista: Bay of Pigs: U2 sighting of missile sites on Cuba: ExComm – 2 weeks debate between hawks and doves: A Win-Win outcome09: A new Domino: Tension in the Far East: The Sino-Soviet Split: Vietnam: The Asian grasshopper rids itself of the French elephant: American and Vietcong tactics: The Tet offensive: The Television War: Anti-Vietnam Protests – what are we fighting for?: Vietnamization10: Czechoslovakia: Prague Spring: Effects on the Cold War: The Brezhnev Doctrine11: Détente 1971-79: Motives for Détente USSR/USA: Motives for Détente USA/ China: SALT Talks 1972: Failure of Détente: The War in Afghanistan12: The Second Cold War: Ronald Reagan – a change of policy: Star Wars – a new arms race?: Poland 1980-90 Solidarity movement13: Changes in the USSR: Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika: Glasnost: Détente –‘We can do business together’ (M. Thatcher)14: The collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe: East Germany 1989-90: Czechoslovakia 1989 The Velvet Revolution: Hungary 1988-90: Romania 1989: Bulgaria15: Cold War Culture: Spies: Double agents: Monetary reward: Unwitting accomplices: Literature: Anti-Russian literature: Films: Spy movies: James Bond movies16: The end of the Cold War: The Failed Russian Coup in 1991 – the Rise of Boris Yeltsin: Yugoslavia – Tito’s time bomb explodes: Who was responsible for the Cold War? The historical debate: Was it all inevitable?: Who won?: Significance of the Cold War