Exam Essay Plans for Cold War

Arguments for the question

Arguments against the question

'The nuclear arms race did little to restrain the actions of the USA and the USSR in the Cold War in the years 1949-63.' How far do you agree with this view?

• Cuban Missile Crisis nearly led to nuclear war.
• Hungarian Uprising. 
• Berlin Crisis, Khrushchev issued an ultimatum and JFK could not respond.
• U2 spyplanes
• Covert Operations and the CIA
• Moscow Airshow
• Paris Summit

• Use of brinkmanship actually stabalised the Cold War
  
• Korean War was restrained by threat of nuclear weapons
• MAD (mutually assured destruction)
• Nuclear weapons didn't influence Eastern Bloc internal politics

'In the years 1953-60, Khrushchev's Cold War diplomacy was based on confrontation rather than peaceful co-existence.' How far do you agree with this view?

• Hungarian Uprising
• Berlin Crisis
• Moscow Airshow
• Warsaw Pact, as a response to NATO
• "I will bury you" speech, as a response to refusal to be allowed…