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Complete Edexcel GCSE History revision notes for Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941–91. Packed with key facts, important events, and exam-ready knowledge, this resource is perfect for students aiming to boost their confidence and succeed in their GCSE exams.

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Contents:
The 3 peace conferences
1943-1945
Edexcel GCSE History (9-1):

Superpower relations
Soviet Expansion impact
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Cominform & Comecon
Formation of NATO
The Cold War Telegrams
Soviet Satellite States
Early tensions in the East &
West
Arms Race
and the Cold War 1941-91
Berlin Crisis
Hungarian Uprising
Khruschev Ultimatum
The Peace Summits
Berlin Wall
Cuban Revolution & Bay of
Pigs
Cuban missile crisis
Prague Spring
Brezchnev Doctrine
Detente
Afghanistan & the Cold War
Carter Doctrine
Olympic boycotts
Reagan & the Second world
war
Gorbachev’s new thinking
End of the Eastern Bloc
End of the Warsaw Pact
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Soviet Union

,Extra
Information:
The Yalta
conference
also agreed
that:

Eastern
Europe would
be a Soviet
sphere of
influence.

United
Nations to be
fully set up.

East Poland to
be added to
the USSR.

,
, Causes of the Arms Race:
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Increased competition between the USA and
Soviet Union
Fear of attack




Background & problems in Berlin prior to the 1948 crises:
Standard of living was low and Berlin was becoming Communist - causing many people to move out
of Berlin.
Consequences of the Arms Race:
East Berlin began to appeal more to captialism.
Increase in the USA and the Soviet Union’s army, navy, submarines and nuclear
weapons.
Competition between the 2 countries in the space race.
Nuclear weapons became a deterrant to war between the USA and USSR.

, New Leaders
involved in
Cold war:
Eisenhower
- elected as
president
and
strongly
anti-
communist
Stalin dies
and
Khruschev
took over in
1956
wanting to
create
peace with
America. diagram from @savemyexams




Warsaw Pact:

Created in 1955 to resist attack
on the Soviet bloc by the USA
or its’ NATO allies. This group
and comecon would become
even more important in
keeping the Soviet bloc
together in 1956 when
cominform disbanded.

Members included: USSR,
Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria,
Romania, East Germany and

7 diagram from @savemyexams
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