
Cold War & The Americas 1945-81: Access to History for the IB Diploma (Access to History/Ib Diploma)
by Vivienne Sanders-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction | |
American foreign policy pre-1945 | |
The USA and Latin America pre-1945 | |
The USA and Canada pre-1945 | |
The USA and China pre-1949 | |
President Truman and the Cold War | |
The USA and Communism pre-1945 | |
The start of the Cold War | |
Key debate: Why did the Cold War begin? | |
The Truman Doctrine and Containment | |
The Truman Doctrine and Latin America | |
The Cold War and American society and culture | |
Examination advice and practice | |
The Korean War 1950-3 | |
Causes of the outbreak of the Korean War | |
Key debate: Why did the Korean War begin? | |
The course of events in the Korean War in 1950 | |
A United Nations war | |
Ending the Korean War, 1951-3 | |
The diplomatic and political outcomes of the Korean war | |
Examination advice and practice | |
President Eisenhower and the New Look | |
Eisenhower and change in foreign and defence policy | |
Eisenhower and Latin America | |
Examination advice and practice | |
The United States' involvement in the Vietnam War | |
The U.S. involvement in Vietnam 1950-69 | |
The motives behind U.S. involvement in Vietnam | |
Key debate: Why and how far did each president get involved in Vietnam? | |
Why the USA failed in Vietnam | |
The end of the war | |
Domestic effects of the war | |
The role of Vietnam in the development of the Cold War | |
Examination advice and practice | |
The Cuban Revolution | |
Cuba before 1959 | |
Castro before 1959 | |
Eisenhower, Cuba and Castro | |
Examination advice and practice | |
From Kennedy to Carter: U.S. foreign policy in Latin America 1961-81 | |
President Kennedy and Latin America | |
President Johnson and Latin America | |
President Nixon and control of the Western Hemisphere | |
President Carter, human rights, the Panama Canal and Nicaragua | |
Examination advice and practice | |
Cuba in the Cold War | |
Castro's domestic policies | |
Cuban foreign policy | |
Castro's Cuba - conclusions | |
Examination advice and practice | |
The impact of the Cold War on Latin America | |
The debate over the external connection | |
Coming to conclusions about the impact of the Cold War on Latin America | |
Timeline | |
Glossary | |
Further Reading | |
Internal Assessment | |
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