International Relations - created from Mind Map Notes

1. Cooperation Ends

2. Emergence of the Cold War

3. Flash-points in Europe

4. Flash-points Outside Europe

5. The End of the Cold War

6. New Tensions Emerge

Yalta and Potsdam

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ideological differences

Soviet Takeover of Eastern Europe - Reason for and actions

Response of the West

Iron Curtain Speech

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Aid

Causes, consequences, reactions to, impact on International Relations

Berlin Blockade 1948-49

Hungary 1956

Berlin (Wall)1959-61

Czechoslovakia 1968

Reasons for involvement , key events, consequences impact on relations

Korean War 1950-53

Vietnam War 1950-73

Cuba 1959 - 62

Soviets in Afghanistan 1979-89

Role of Gobachev

Role of Reagan

Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989

Cold War Ends 1991

Perestroika & Glasnost

Withdrawal from Afghanistan

SDI, increased pressure on USSR

Collapse of the USSR

Rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda

9/11 Attack

The War on Terror

Reasons for and responses

Invasion of Afghanistan 2001

Invasion of Iraq 2003

International Relations - created from Mind Map