Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War and the Americas 1945-1981 Second Edition
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9781471841385
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 What you will study
2 How you will be assessed
3 About this book
CHAPTER 1 US foreign policy pre-1945
1 The USA and Latin America pre-1945
2 The USA and Canada pre-1945
3 The USA and China pre-1945
CHAPTER 2 President Truman and the Cold War
1 The USA and Communism pre-1945
2 The start of the Cold War
3 Key debate: Why did the Cold War begin?
4 The Truman Doctrine and containment
5 The Truman Doctrine and Latin America
6 The Cold War and American society and culture
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 3 The Korean War 1950–3
1 Causes of the outbreak of the Korean War
2 Key debate: Why did the Korean War begin?
3 The course of events in the Korean War in 1950
4 A UN war
5 Ending the Korean War, 1951–3
6 The diplomatic and political outcomes of the Korean War
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 4 President Eisenhower and the ‘New Look’
1 Eisenhower and change in foreign and defence policy
2 Eisenhower and Latin America
3 Key debate: What was the significance of the US intervention in Guatemala?
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 5 US involvement in the Vietnam War
1 The US involvement in Vietnam, 1950–69
2 The motives behind US involvement in Vietnam
3 Key debate: Why and how far did each US president get involved in Vietnam?
4 Why the USA failed in Vietnam
5 The end of the war
6 Domestic effects of the war
7 Canadian and Latin American reactions to the Vietnam War
8 The role of Vietnam in the development of the Cold War
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 6 The Cuban Revolution
1 Cuba before 1959
2 Castro before 1959
3 Eisenhower, Cuba and Castro
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 7 From Kennedy to Carter: US foreign policy in Latin America 1961–81
1 President Kennedy and Latin America
2 President Johnson and Latin America
3 President Nixon and control of the Western hemisphere
4 President Carter, human rights, the Panama Canal and Nicaragua
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 8 Cuba in the Cold War
1 Castro’s domestic policies
2 Cuban foreign policy
3 Castro’s Cuba: conclusions
Examination advice and practice
CHAPTER 9 The impact of the Cold War on Latin America
1 The debate over the external connection
2 Conclusions about the impact of the Cold War on Latin America
Timeline
Glossary
Further reading
Internal assessment
Index
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