IAL Unit 4 A World Divided: Topic 2 Conciliation & confrontationWeek 5 L5 Achievements of the Thaw

IAL History Unit 4 A World Divided: Topic 2 Conciliation & confrontation

* This covers the very dramatic ten years from the death of Stalin to the downfall of Khrushchev in 1964. * Assesses the part of new players in explaining the key pattern of conciliation, confrontation and then renewed conciliation. * Explores the significance for east-west relations of, the Sino-Soviet split- Khrushchev and Mao personality clash. * Maps specified developments along the European Iron Curtain and in relation to nuclear weapons. * Highlights the flowering of some degree of liberalisation followed by the savage repression in Hungary, the withdrawal from Austria but the renewed confrontation in Berlin. * Recognise the same oscillating pattern repeated with regard to nuclear weapons with the nuclear confrontation over Cuba followed by the Test Ban Treaty.