History (PAPER 2) Early Elizabethan England, Superpower Relations and the Cold War (1558-1991)

History (PAPER 2) Early Elizabethan England, Superpower Relations and the Cold War (1558-1991)

1. Queen, Government and Religion

   • 1558-1569
   • Elizabeth's Accession
   • Settling Religion
   • Challenges to the Religious Settlement
   • Mary, Queen of Scots

2. Elizabethan Society in the Age of Exploration

   • 1558-1588
   • Education and Leisure
   • The Problem of the Poor
   • Exploration and the Voyages of Discovery

3. Challenges to Elizabeth Home and Abroad

   • 1569-1588
   • Plots and Revolts in England
   • Relations With Spain
   • War With Spain
   • The Spanish Armada

4. Origins of the Cold War

   • 1941-1958
   • Early Tension Between East and West
     • The 'Big Three'
       • Britain
         • Prime Minister: Churchill (Until 1945) Then Attlee
       • USA
         • President: Roosevelt (Until 1945) Then Truman
       • USSR
         • Leader: Stalin
     • Capitalism and Communism
       • Capitalism - USA and 'the West' Communism - USSR and 'the East'
     • Conferences
       • Yalta 1945
         • Germany decided to be split into 4
         • Germany to pay $20 billion
         • Liberated countries to hold free elections
       • Potsdam July 1945
         • Didn't go as well as other conferences due to differences in power and higher tensions
         • Atomic bombs dropped days after
       • Tehran 1943
         • Discussing what to do with Germany once defeated
           • Reparations
         • Came up with UN
     • Iron Curtain
       • Divide between East and West Europe
       • Stalin found it important to have control over Poland, to provide security and defence
         • Part of the 'buffer zone' between the USSR and the rest of Europe
       • Stalin's allies had communist governments set up bu the USSR
   • The Cold War Intensifies
   • Development of the Cold War

5. Cold War Crisis

   • 1958-1970
   • Berlin: Tension and the Berlin Wall
   • Cuban Missile Crisis
   • Czechoslovakia

6. End of the Cold War

   • 1970-1991
   • Attempts to Reduce Tension
   • Flashpoints in Superpower Relations
   • Collapse of Soviet Control in the East