Oxford IB Diploma Programme: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Course Companion
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- Edition number and title :The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Course Companion
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 August 2015
- ISBN 9780198310211
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 275x220x11 mm
- Weight 593 g
- Language English 90
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Short description:
Drive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative approach to learning.
MoreLong description:
Drive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative approach to learning.
Cover the new syllabus in the right level of depth, with rich, thorough subject content
Developed directly with the IB, with the most comprehensive support for the new syllabus with complete support for the comparative approach
Truly engage learners with topical, relevant material that convincingly connects learning with the modern, global world
Streamline your planning, with a clear and thorough structure helping you logically progress through the syllabus
Build the advanced-level skills learners need for Paper 2, with the student-led approach driving active skills development and strengthening exam performance
Integrate approaches to learning with ATLs like thinking, communication, research and social skills built directly into learning
Help learners think critically about improving performance with extensive examiner insight and samples based on the latest exam format
Build an advanced level, thematic understanding with fully integrated Global Contexts, Key Concepts and TOK
Also available as an Online Course Book
Table of Contents:
Growth and tension - the origins of the Cold War 1943-1949
The formation of the grand alliance to 1943
The wartime conferences 1943-1945
The emergence of superpower rivalry in Europe 1945-1949
Cold War crisis in Europe
The atom bomb
The roles of the USA and the Soviet Union in the origins of the Cold War
Case Study 1: Yugoslavia under Tito
Global spread of the Cold War 1945-1962
Emergence of superpower rivalry in Asia 1945-1949
Communist success in China and its relations with the USSR and the USA 1946-1949
North Korean invasion of South Korea 1950
Origins of the Non-Aligned Movement
old War crisis in Europe - the Hungarian uprising
The Suez Crisis
Congo Crisis 1960-1964
Berlin Crisis and the Berlin Wall
Sino-Soviet tensions, the Taiwan Strait crises and the split
Cuban Missile Crisis
Case Study 2: Guatemala during the Cold War
Reconciliation and renewed conflict 1963-1979
The invasion of Czechoslovakia
Arms race and détente
Sino-US agreements
The election, presidency and overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile
Cold War crisis in Asia Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
Case Study 3: Vietnam
The end of the Cold War
Eastern European dissent
Cold War crisis: The Able Archer crisis 1983
Gorbachev's policies
The effect of Gorbachev's policies on Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
The end of the USSR 1989-1991
