Exam Questions: Superpower Relations & the Cold War (Edexcel GCSE History)

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 (8)

You may use the following in your answer: 

• Imre Nagy 

• Soviet tanks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). (8)

You may use the following in your answer: 

• nuclear missile sites in Cuba 

• Kennedy’s television address

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the 'Second Cold War' (1979-85). (8)

You may use the following in your answer: 

• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)

• Strategic Defense Initiative

Write a narrative account analysing the key developments of the Cold War crisis over Berlin in the years 1958-63. (8)

You may use the following in your answer: 

• Khrushchev’s Berlin ultimatum (1958)

• construction of the Berlin Wall (1961)

Write a narrative account analysing US-Soviet relations in the years 1945-47. (8)

You may use the following in your answer: 

• Yalta Conference (February 1945)

• Cominform (1947)