A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications. Superpower Rivalry focuses on the beginning of the Cold War at the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991. It covers the breakdown of the wartime alliance, the Berlin Blockade and the wars which involved the Superpowers, including the Korean War and the Vietnam War. There are sections on The Arms Race, the Cuban Missile Crisis and an account of the fall of the Soviet Empire. The book meets the requirements of the new Modern World History courses.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge History Programme Key Stage 4 .

There are 79 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Cambridge University Press .

Tony McAleavy, Humanities Adviser, Gloucestershire; member of the QCA team who wrote the KS3 History Scheme of Work; author of Conflict in Ireland; Andrew Wrenn, History Adviser, Cambridgeshire; co-author of Minds and Machines (Longman Think Through History); KeithWorrall, Humanities Adviser, Doncaster; co-author of History Investigations

This book has the following chapters: The roots of the Cold War; 1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance; The Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe; The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; American motives at the start of the Cold War; The Berlin Blockade and NATO; Review: the start of the Cold War; The Korean War; The Cuban missile crisis; The Cold War and the Middle East; The Vietnam War; Review: containing communism; Tito and Stalin; The Red Army in Budapest and Prague; Building the Berlin Wall; Solidarity; Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire; The arms race; Review: the Soviet Empire 1948-91.