1. Describe Questions Advice
Try to give 4 details/examples OR briefly explain 2 points.
No more than 8 lines!

2. How to revise Look at each area on your PLC.
For each one create a small spiderdiagram or list with 3-4 examples/points that would help you to describe what it was.
Look at the next three slides for ideas and then try and answer the questions that follow!

3. Ideological differences
Change in leadership
Ideological differences
US policy
Why did relations break down?
Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe
Nuclear race
No common enemy
Explain opportunity: What caused the breakdown? Why did they not trust/like each other?

4. New currency in West Microcosm Stalin’s gap Berlin blockade – 1948 -9
Stalin’s abandonment
Air lift
blockade
Explain opportunity: Why did Stalin blockade Berlin? What does it reveal about Cold War?

5. Division of world powers/ideologies
Defensive alliance
Division of world powers/ideologies
NATO
1949
Warsaw pact
Explain opportunities: Why was this created? Why did it worsen relations?

6. Describe the ideological differences between America and USSR

7. Describe the US policy of containment

8. Describe the differences between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences

9. Describe how Stalin expanded his control of Eastern Europe after WW2

10. Describe America’s policies in response to the threat of Soviet expansionism after WW2

11. Describe the Berlin blockade