COLD WAR HISTORY EXAM 8th June!

I just wanted to say that the Post-Stalin Thaw was last year only, not both years, so there is a chance it could come up again. Detente came up twice two years in a row. :-)

And I mean that last years exam was post thaw and sino soviet but the exam the year before wasn't the post thaw again, it was nuclear arms race


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For the love of all that is holy I hope it's detente and arms race question for A but I have my reservations in completely trusting the so-called pattern of the questions. Namely because in 2012 this was one of the questions:

The improvement in Sino-US relations was the main factor promoting détentebetween Russia and America in the years 1969–75.’ How far do you agree with thisview?

I personally would class that as a detente rather than Sino-Soviet topic question. A question relating to the start of detente and why the superpowers adopted it as a foreign policy. So my overall point is ensure you've been revising at least 3 of the A question topics. If you've solely been focused on detente and arms race, get some quick revision in on peaceful co-existence or sino-soviet relations. I have a gut feeling edexcel are going to be horrible this year.

To continue the pessimism (sorry people) the end of the Cold War question is most likely to fall on one of the lesser individuals (Thatcher or Popey) or moral bankruptcy. As I believe there hasn't been a question on any of these yet.

So all I can say is good luck everyone, now it falls on the luck of the draw of the questions.

Ah I know I was thinking that since they have asked all the main stated factors for part B now, I pray it's not those ones you said, the role of Pope and thatcher are so tiny!😭

What do you / anyone think they will ask ok detente if it is that - the causes?


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Ah I know I was thinking that since they have asked all the main stated factors for part B now, I pray it's not those ones you said, the role of Pope and thatcher are so tiny!😭

What do you / anyone think they will ask ok detente if it is that - the causes?


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If Detente does come up, then I'd put my money on why it ended. But to a lesser extent I would say the causes, because that 2012 question was a causes one.

Yeah I think/ hope that too! I'd really like a while it failed Question! Praying its a lovely paper for us all 😪😭


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Good luck mate.

Yes of course, that 2012 question is most certainly the exception rather than the rule. It just stands as proof that Edexcel are willing to break patterns in order to throw students off. For instance they could amalgamate peaceful coexistence and the arms race and ask "How far did the spiraling arms race undermine the policy of peaceful coexistence?"

What would you write for that because I can't think of factors for that question, that's a harsh question.


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Me neither, that's an awful question !!😭😭

Possibly could discuss how the arms build up undermined peaceful coexistence, as rather than cooperate with one another, they seeked to build and to compete and to develop weapons they could use against one another.

You could however say MAD in a sense stabilised peaceful coexistence, such as preventing war from breaking out in Hungary, Taiwan and Korea. That prevented war and still allowed for continuing discussions with superpowers.

I imagine you can also discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis in form of it ruining peaceful coexistence with war, however also offered some form of peaceful coexistence with the resulting agreements and reduction of tensions.

This is just a few ideas, not 100% sure if you could use them, but they seem perfectly good to me.

So sort of like stabilising v destabilising then?


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It feels like it, I guess. :/

Make sure you always refer how that particularly affected peaceful coexistence.

You can easily say how MAD did not undermine peaceful coexistence such as how it effectively kept war at bare minimum and allowed for discussions etc etc.