The seeds of the Cold War
Welcome to year 12!!!!!
Well done for choosing history – its brill and
you’re going to have lots of fun!
During A level history you will be studying
the Cold War.
This is the name of a period of tension
between the USA and USSR which developed
in 1945
• The tiny seeds of Cold War were sown from
1917 although relations were temporarily
patched up during world war two against the
common enemy of the Nazis.
• What were the long term problems?
Use the sheets you were given on induction to
complete the following powerpoint. Do it
electronically and then email it to your teacher –
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1. The emergence of Communist
ideas – the Russian Revolution 1917
Who got power in 1917?
What ideology did they believe in?
What are its main ideas?
Why did other counties in ‘the west’ fear them?
Source understanding: cartoon
from the 1920s ‘Comrade Lenin
sweeps the earth clean of scum’
1.
What is the message of the
cartoon?
2.
The cartoon was produced by
the Bolsheviks (Russian
revolutionaries) – how might
counties in the west have seen
it?
2. Economic differences
What did the Communists see Capitalism as
responsible for?
What did they believe should happen?
3. Political differences
• What were the differences in the political
systems?
Capitalists
Communists
Source understanding: A poster issues
by USA government during the second
world war
How could Communism be seen as a
threat to the values in the source?
4. International relations
• What was the Comintern and what did it aim
to do?
• Why might this cause tension with the west?
5. Wilsonian Liberalism
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Who was Woodrow Wilson?
What did he issue in Jan 1918?
What were its 3 guiding principles?
How was this in conflict with Lenin's thinking?
6. Tension in the inter war years
• Summarise each of the 8 reasons in no more
than 5 words each
For example:
1. ideological differences caused tension
Temporary unity: the Grand Alliance
• What happened in 1941 to change World War
Two?
• What impact did this have on relationships
between the countries?
• Where did they meet in 1943?
• What tensions remained?