IB History
Author: Leopard Xu / Revisers: August Long & Michael Huang
The Arms Race and Detente
What is Détente? The process of easing tensions between the superpowers Although Détente wasn...
The Cuban Missile crisis
How did the USSR feel about the USA and Cuba in 1960’s? That USA would overthrown the Cuban regi...
The Sino-US agreements
USA and China In 1954, what did U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles refuse to do at the G...
The Beginning of Cold War
Post-WW2 Germany The Grand Alliance countries were in agreement about what goals for post-WW2 Ge...
The Berlin crisis
Although Potsdam determined how Berlin was to be governed, what was never negotiated between the ...
The Hungarian Uprising
The death of Stalin What two sides did Khrushchev’s “secret speech” divide the communist world i...
The Non Alignment Movement
Korea After the Korean War, how did the Soviet’s appear to be doing in the Cold War? They gain ...
The Prague Spring
President Johnson In November of 1963, what happened to President John F. Kennedy? Kennedy was ...
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Afghanistan state When did the period of Détente end for the Cold War superpowers? 1979 Wh...
The USA war in Vietnam
The French in Vietnam In the 17th century, what had the French sent to Vietnam in hopes of conve...
Essay outline
Economic Policy
With reference to two leaders from different regions, compare and contrast effectiveness of autho...
Social Justice
“The most powerful of authoritarians built their success on an association with social justice.” ...
The Berlin Crisis
“The Berlin Crisis was ultimately caused by the failure of Khrushchev’s failed foreign policy.” T...