Exam Skills: Superpower Relations & the Cold War, 1941–91 (Edexcel GCSE History: Period Study (Paper 2, Booklet P))

Exam Questions

3 hours18 questions
18 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of détente during the 1970s.

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  • SALT I (1972) 

  • Afghanistan (1979) 

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28 marks

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.

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  • Imre Nagy 

  • Soviet tanks

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38 marks

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

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  • nuclear missile sites in Cuba 

  • Kennedy’s television address

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48 marks

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

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  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

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58 marks

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

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  • Khrushchev’s Berlin ultimatum (1958)

  • construction of the Berlin Wall (1961)

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68 marks

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

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  • Yalta Conference (February 1945)

  • Cominform (1947) 

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