Summary Full Detailed Notes for AQA GCSE History BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972, including timeline and top-mark answers

Detailed, organised notes on every subsection of the AQA specification for GCSE History: BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972 (Cold War). It includes everything you need to know as well as extra well-explained details for added nuance. At the end there is a timeline of events along with an 11/12 and an 8/8 answer to past paper questions, written by a Henrietta Barnett student who achieved 90% in her History GCSE. The document analyses the origins of the cold war (the end of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain and evolution of East-West rivalry), the development of the cold war (events in Asia, military rivalries and the Thaw) and the transformation of the cold war (the Berlin Wall, Cuba, Czechoslovakia and Detente) and more.