SGQ10

Guiding questions:
Analyse the origin of East-West rivalry and explain why it developed into the Cold War.
When and why did the Cold War end?
How did the Cold War develop?
MWH p. 117-140
1. What were the effects of WWII?
a. evidence of enormous destruction?40 million deaths, 21 million uprooted, the Holocaust
b. no all-inclusive peace settlement - what was there?Italy and japan lose territrory, USSR and romania gain territory, trieste is free, ussr refuse to agree on germany and austria

c. examples social changes?
population movements, rebuiling, welfare
d. nuclear weapons - so what?first weapon to wipe out a city
e. European domination of the world ended - why?everyone is weaker
f. emergence of the superpowers - who?usa and ussr
g. decolonization - what happened to the territories?third world is created, neutral and nonaligned
h. the United Nations - so what?succeeds the lon
2. What caused the Cold War?
a. what are the differences of principle?communism v. capitalism
b. what were Stalin's foreign policies?expand ussr
c. what were US and British policies?weve got the atomic bomb
3. How did the Cold War develop between 1945 and 1953?
a. what four things were agreed upon at the Yalta Conference?
i. un
ii.germany divided
iii.free elections in eastern europe
iv.stalin joins war against japan
b. why were Germany and Poland the major concerns at the Potsdam Conference?no longterm futur plan and big disagreement
c. how was Communism established in eastern Europe?iron curtain
d. how did Russia exert its influence in eastern Europe?communism, yugoslavia is a problem
e. what were the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan?contain communism and the iron curtain is real
f. what was Cominform?russian communism, molotov plan, comecon
g. what happened to Czechoslovakia?the curtain is complete
h. what happened in Berlin?3 of 4 war zones are western, west introduces new currency
i. what is NATO?north atlantic treaty
j. what happened to Germany?split into german federal republic and " democrtaic "
h. what developed with nuclear weapons?hbomb, communist china
4. To what extent was there a thaw after 1953?
a. why was there a thaw?
i.death of stalin
ii.mccarthy discredited
b. how do we know there was a thaw?
i.first signs
ii.russians make important concession s in 1955
1.finland gets military
2.lifted veto
3.yoguslavia is all better
4.cominform abandoned
c. what evidence suggests only a partial thaw?
i.warsaw pact
ii.russians build more nukes
iii.berlin is more temnse
iv.cuba gets missles
v.berlin wall
5. The nuclear arms race and the Cuban missile crisis
a. how did the arms race accelerate?Icbm by ussr then they lanch satellite
b. what happened in Cuba? how was it resolved? ussr loses lead in icbm, us is threatened, ussr and cuba look like friends, kennedy testyed, ussr is trying to force bargain
c. what happened to the arms race in the 1970s?slbms made, mirvs made, cruise missles in europe
d. how effective were anti-nuclear protests?play part in bringing both sides to the negotiatring tabole