Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History (PAPER 2)
Early Elizabethan
England, Superpower
Relations and the
Cold War (1558-1991)
- Queen, Government and Religion
- 1558-1569
- Elizabeth's Accession
- Settling Religion
- Challenges to the Religious Settlement
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Elizabethan Society in the Age of Exploration
- 1558-1588
- Education and Leisure
- The Problem of the Poor
- Exploration and the
Voyages of Discovery
- Challenges to Elizabeth Home and Abroad
- 1569-1588
- Plots and Revolts in England
- Relations With Spain
- War With Spain
- The Spanish Armada
- Origins of the Cold
War
- 1941-1958
- Early Tension Between
East and West
- The 'Big
Three'
- Britain
- Prime Minister: Churchill
(Until 1945) Then Attlee
- USA
- President: Roosevelt
(Until 1945) Then Truman
- USSR
- Leader: Stalin
- Capitalism and
Communism
- Capitalism - USA and 'the West'
Communism - USSR and 'the East'
- Conferences
- Yalta 1945
- Germany decided
to be split into 4
- Germany to pay $20 billion
- Liberated countries to hold free elections
- Potsdam July 1945
- Didn't go as well as other
conferences due to differences
in power and higher tensions
- Atomic bombs dropped
days after
- Tehran 1943
- Discussing what to do with
Germany once defeated
- Reparations
- Came up with UN
- Iron Curtain
- Divide between East
and West Europe
- Stalin found it important to have
control over Poland, to provide
security and defence
- Part of the 'buffer zone' between
the USSR and the rest of Europe
- Stalin's allies had
communist governments
set up bu the USSR
- The Cold War
Intensifies
- Development of the Cold War
- Cold War Crisis
- 1958-1970
- Berlin: Tension
and the Berlin Wall
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Czechoslovakia
- End of the Cold War
- 1970-1991
- Attempts to Reduce
Tension
- Flashpoints in
Superpower Relations
- Collapse of Soviet
Control in the East