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Chapter 1: Relations in 1945
Ideology, WW2 and wartime conferences
20  cards
Chapter 2: Developing tensions to 1948
Expansion into Eastern Europe, Telegrams, Speeches, Doctrines
27  cards
Chapter 3: US's involvement in Europe
How the US were involved, Marshall plan and responses
12  cards
Chapter 4: Conflict over Germany
German zones, bizonia, currency, Berlin Blockade
18  cards
Chapter 5: US in Asia
Japan, China, Defensive perimeter, NSC-68
18  cards
Chapter 6: The Korean War 1950-3
Causes, involvement of powers, settlement, impact
18  cards
Chapter 7: Increasing Cold War Tensions
McCarthyism, UN and US dominance
16  cards
Chapter 8: Alliances and Shifts
International alliances, New Look policy, Indochina
16  cards
Chapter 9: Krushchev and East-West relations 1955-60
Uprisings, Summits, talks
11  cards
Chapter 10: Cold War Rivalries 1955-63
Space race, arms race, Berlin crisis
22  cards
Chapter 11: Conflict in Asia 1955-63
Start of Vietnam war: NLF, Hamlets, Buddhists, Diem's assassination
36  cards
Chapter 12: Confrontation between the superpowers
The Cuban Missile Crisis
24  cards
Chapter 13: Confrontation in the Vietnam War
Johnson's war, escalation, Tet
17  cards
Chapter 14: President Nixon's Policies in Vietnam
Vietnamisation, Cambodia, Laos, China, Peace talks
22  cards
Chapter 15: Cooperation
What were attitudes of khrushchev...,
What were attitudes of khrushchev...,
What were kennedy s attitudes bef...
20  cards
Chapter 16: Pressures on the USSR 1963-72
What internal pressures did the u...,
What pressures came from the sovi...,
How did the czechoslovakian crisi...
20  cards
Chapter 17: The USA and Southeast Asia
When did paris peace talks start,
What problems delayed an agreement,
When was the peace agreement signed
22  cards
Chapter 18: The Extent of Détente up to 1979
What were impacts on detente,
What was strand 1 of detente,
What were the agreements at salt 1
23  cards
Chapter 19: The Second Cold War
Why was afghanistan a problem,
What were soviet concerns about a...,
How did brezhnev justify the inva...
30  cards
Chapter 20: Developments in Africa and the Americas
What was the situation in angola,
What ideology were the mpla,
What aid did
25  cards
Chapter 21: Gorbachev and the ending of the cold war
When did,
What were gorbachev s 2 main aims,
What agricultural issues were there
19  cards
Chapter 22: Summits between the USA & USSR
Why did leaders need the summits,
What order did the summits happen,
What was the geneva summit
27  cards
Chapter 23: The Collapse of Communism in the Eastern European Satellite States
What was the sinatra doctrine,
What happened to comecon,
Why was communism able to collaps...
32  cards
Chapter 24: The Ending of Cold War Tensions
What were reasons that the ussr n...,
How did the ussr withdraw from af...,
How was the withdrawal from afgha...
15  cards
Key dates
Bolshevik revolution,
Nazi soviet pact,
Operation barbarossa
127  cards

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