Thinking through History at Tallis http://historyattallis.weebly.com https://www.facebook.com/historyGCSEattallis Email: historyattallis@gmail.com Key Topic 2. Cold War crises 1958-70 Content In a Nutshell: Overview of developments Cold War crises 1958-70...
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Thinking through History at Tallis http://historyattallis.weebly.com https://www.facebook.com/historyGCSEattallis Email: historyattallis@gmail.com Key Topic 2. Cold War crises 1958-70 Content In a Nutshell: Overview of developments Cold War crises 1958-70 Causes and Analysis of Cold War crises 1958-70 including: Focus 1 Increased tension between East and West The refugee problem in Berlin, Khrushchev’s Berlin ultimatum (1958), and the summit meetings of 1959–61. Soviet relations with Cuba, the Cuban Revolution and the refusal of the USA to recognise Castro’s government. The significance of the Bay of Pigs incident. Opposition in Czechoslovakia to Soviet control: the Prague Spring. Focus 2 Cold War crises The construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961. The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Brezhnev Doctrine and the re-establishment of Soviet control in Czechoslovakia. Focus 3 Reaction to crisis Impact of the construction of the Berlin Wall on US-Soviet relations. Kennedy’s visit to Ber
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