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Revision Checklist International Relations- Section 4

The Teheran Conference
Which Countries were involved in the Tehran Conference?
What did the countries agree to do at Tehran?
Yalta & Potsdam
Which countries were involved at Yalta and Potsdam?
What was agreed at Yalta and Potsdam?
What were the attitudes of Stalin and Truman over Germany and Eastern
Europe?
What are the difference between communism and capitalism?
Why did Stalin want to control Eastern Europe?
Why did USA, UK and France want a democratic Eastern Europe?
The establishment and control of the Soviet satellite states
Cominform and Comecon
Growing involvement of the USA in Europe
Truman Doctrine / the Marshall Plan
Bizonia,
the Berlin Blockade/Airlift
formation of NATO
Military developments and the beginnings of the arms race
The impact of Soviet rule on Hungary
Rakosi
de-Stalinisation and optimism
Nagy and his demands
Soviet reaction and uprising, the death of Nagy
the re-establishment of Soviet control and international reaction In
Hungary

Section 5 Three Cold War Crisis

Berlin: the refugee problem
Khrushchevs challenge to the USA

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6th

Summit Conference and Eisenhower, challenge to Kennedy

Construction of the Berlin Wall and its impact,
Kennedys visit to Berlin, 1963
Who was Batista?
Cuba: the arms race to 1961
Cubas drift from the USA
Why did America attack Cuba at the Bay of Pigs?
Who won at the Bay of Pigs
economic ties & Castros friendship with the Soviet Union
missile bases and the 13 days
immediate and longer-term results, the hot line
Test BanTreaty (1963) and the moves to dtente.
Czechoslovakia: opposition to Soviet control
Dubcek as party secretary
the Prague Spring reforms
the re-establishment of Soviet control and international reaction.

Section 6- the end of the Cold War.

The impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Mujahidin
dtente in the 70s and its collapse
Helsinki
SALT 1
SALT 2
the Second Cold War & US reaction and Reagans approach
Olympic boycotts & SDI
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
What was glasnost?
What was perestroika?
summit conferences and INF
the loosening Soviet grip on eastern Europe
The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

The end of the Cold War

the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Warsaw Pact.

Two reasons From Source A (2 marks)

Outline two steps (4)
How useful? (10)
Describe Key features (6)
Explain importance (15)
Explain why (13)