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THE STUDY GUIDE
EABJM TERMINALE: HISTORY REVISION
ESSAYS: PAST
EXAMPLES AND MODELS
Origins of the Cold War
When preparing the Cold War topic,
don't........
1) Talk about long term and short term causes
the result would be to take
you back to 1917 at the beginning of your talk
with the danger that you will get to the Truman
Doctrine only half way through it. It's important
to say at some stage that the roots go back a
long way, of course. Probably best in the section
on ideological origins..."For many , the Cold War
was an ideological conflict and the origins of
this go back to 1917...."
2) Prepare to give a
narrative based talk
3) Get bogged down describing individual events
4) Go too far into the Cold War itself.
The term was used in the
early 1950s (at least) to describe what had
emerged in the late 1940s
5) Introduce orthodox view, revisionist
view, post revisionist......
and then fail to discuss them properly |
When preparing the Cold War topic, don't
forget:
Agreements/Disagreements during WWII
Yalta
Potsdam
Communist takeovers in E Europe
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Cominform
Comecon
Berlin
NATO
Bomb |
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Western
personalities:
Roosevelt
Truman
Marshall
Kennan
Churchill |
Soviet
personalities:
Stalin
Molotov
Zhdanov |
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