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Edexcel GCSE History Cold War

Harry Truman attempted to intimidate Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference by mentioning a weapon of unusual destructive force, unaware that Soviet spies had already compromised the Manhattan Project. This breakdown of the Grand Alliance led to the 1948 Marshall Plan, where the United States provided 13.3 billion dollars to rebuild Europe and counter Soviet influence. The narrative covers the Berlin Airlift, the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, concluding with the economic pressures that forced Mikhail Gorbachev to negotiate during the 1980s. These events defined the geopolitical boundaries of the 20th century and established the nuclear protocols still refe...