1. Cold War Paper 2

3. Leaders Impact on course and development of the Cold War. Pit Falls
Loses focus on the leaders.
Fix: Stick with specific policies and decisions. Use leaders name instead of country.
Analysis doesn’t go beyond capitalism vs. communism = increased tension.
Fix: Pick up on shifts in relationships or policies that create change in course of Cold war.
Ex: Khrushchev’s Peaceful Coexistence shifted the relationship between the USSR and China leading to the Sino-Soviet split.
Ex: The Marshall Plan and subsequent European Recovery Program under Truman reinforced the division between East and West and established points of confrontation for ideological influence.
Timeline
Fix: Be careful with Truman and Stalin—keep focus primarily post WWII.

4. Leaders: recommendations
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Mao
Rollback
Peaceful Coexistence
Support for Revolutionary movements
New Look
De-Stalinization
Rapprochement with US
Korean War Resolution
Summit Meetings
Korean War
Guatemala
Hungarian Revolution
Suez Crisis
Taiwan Strait
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sino-Soviet Split

5. Leader Recommendations
Truman
Stalin
Containment
Security in Europe through satellite states
Truman Doctrine
Expansion of communist ideology
Marshall Plan/ERP
NSC 68
Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
Comecon/Cominform
Potsdam
Berlin Blockade
Atom Bomb
Czechoslovak coup
Berlin Airlift
Soviet-Yugoslav split
NATO
Soviet atom bomb
Korean War

6. Impact on two leaders on the course and development of the Cold War
Evaluate
Discuss
Compare and contrast
Analyze
Examine
To what extent

8. Crises Examination and comparison of causes, impact and significance
Crisis: the turning point in a series of events that leads to a dangerous situation in need of resolution. Events that had the potential to escalate tensions or even lead to general war between the superpowers.
General Pitfalls
Losing the details of the crisis/over generalizing
I think this is the root of some inaccuracies showing up with specific crises
EX: The Soviet Union put nuclear weapons in Cuba because of US weapons in Turkey
EX: Role of Soviet Union in Korea and use of “US” in Korea
Too basic in comparisons—sticking strictly to what happened and not why it happened.

9. How to choose Consider short and long term causes
How do the causes reflect superpower relationships or policies?
OR . ..
Does the impact set up a shift in superpower relationships or policies?
YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN BOTH CREATE/SHOW TENSION

10. Specific Crises Berlin Blockade Invasion of South Korea by North Korea
First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises
Hungarian Revolution
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Able Archer Crisis

11. What Gregory likes Hungarian Revolution and Cuban Missile Crisis
Why? Shift in leadership/Kennedy and Khrushchev
Hungarian Revolution and Taiwan Strait Crisis
Why? Khrushchev and Mao foreign policy
Berlin Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis
Why? Khrushchev diverging from Peaceful Coexistence/Détente

12. Rivalry, mistrust, and accord

13. Origins of the Cold War: Perspectives
Orthodox:
Focused on Europe/ignores conflict in Asia.
Ethnocentric
Immediate historiographical perspective/reflective on mindset at the time.
Revisionist:
Considers historical trends like imperialism, providing insight in to motives continuity in policy.
Focused on the west—places less importance on role of leaders like Mao.
Doesn’t assess Soviet influence
Post Revisionist:
Benefit of hindsight
Accounts for clear differences in ideology
Broad/open to interpretation

14. To what extent did economic interests rather than ideology lead to the breakdown of the grand alliance between 1943 and 1949?
Compare and contrast the roles of the US and USSR in the origins of the Cold War.
Examine the effect of the US policy of containment on relations with the USSR and the PRC from 1949 to 1962.
To what extent was Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful-coexistence responsible for the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960’s?
Discuss the impact of the Brezhnev Doctrine on the course of the Cold War.
Evaluate the impact of Gorbachev’s policies on two countries between and 1989.
To what extent did the war in Afghanistan contribute to the decline of the Soviet Union.

15. Understand what the command term/question is asking and what it allows for scope.
BTSs should be argument points not topic sentences.
Needs to set up an argument.
Dig in to the how/why to support critical analysis
Connect everything back to prompt/thesis
Must address differing perspectives and one additional historical concept.
Use the language/terminology

17. Be explicit about how you are answering the prompt—use language from the prompt.
Avoid the narrative
Big Facts vs. Specific Details
Define your terms
Set up the timeline
When in doubt work in chronological order.
Read prompts carefully for appropriate timeline.