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1.5. Rivalry, mistrust and accord: Graded student examples

Below you will find marked  essays for the first theme of this topic; essays relating to 'Rivalry, mistrust and accord',can be quite specific.

However, if essays are on the second and third themes -  Nations and Leaders, Cold War Crises - they will be open-ended; specific content will not be named.

For examples of these essays see Cold War Crises: Graded student examples and Leaders and nations: Graded student examples 

1. Detente

To what extent did the Cold War between the USA and the USSR become less confrontational between 1970 and 1980?

2. Sino-US relations, 1947 - 1979

Discuss the reasons for, and results of, changes in Sino-US relations between 1947 and 1979

3. Collapse of detente

Discuss the reasons for the collapse of Détente between the US and the USSR by 1980.

4. End of the Cold War

To what extent was Gorbachev responsible for bringing about the end of the Cold War?

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