Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma. This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it to better fit the IB learner's needs. Each title in the series provides depth of content, focussed on specific topics in the IB History guide, and examination guidance on different exam-style questions - helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the topic alongside the skills they need to do well. - Ensures students gain a good understanding of the IB History topic through an engaging, in-depth, reliable and up-to-date narrative - presented in an accessible way. - Helps students to understand historical issues and examine the evidence, through providing a wealth of relevant sources and analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates. - Gives students guidance on answering exam-style questions with model answers and practice questions
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Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma.
Introduction 1 What you will study 2 How you will be
assessed 3 About this book
Chapter 1 US foreign policy pre-1945
1 The USA and Latin America pre-1945 2 The USA and Canada pre-1945
3 The USA and China pre-1949
Chapter 2 President Truman and the Cold
War 1 The USA and Communism pre-1945 2 The start of the Cold
War 3 Key debate: Why did the Cold War begin? 4 The Truman
Doctrine and Containment 5 The Truman Doctrine and Latin America
6 The Cold War and American society and culture Examination advice
and practice
Chapter 3 The Korean War 1950-3 1 Causes of the
outbreak of the Korean War 2 Key debate: Why did the Korean War begin?
3 The course of events in the Korean War in 1950 4 A UN war
5 Ending the Korean War, 1951-3 6 The diplomatic and political
outcomes of the Korean War Examination advice and practice
Chapter 4
President Eisenhower and the 'New Look' 1 Eisenhower and change in
foreign and defence policy 2 Eisenhower and Latin America 3 Key
debate: What was the significance of the US intervention in Guatamala?
Examination advice and practice
Chapter 5 US involvement in the Vietnam War
1 The US involvement in Vietnam 1950-69 2 The motives behind US
involvement in Vietnam 3 Key debate: Why and how far did each
president get involved in Vietnam? 4 Why the USA failed in Vietnam
5 The end of the war 6 Domestic effects of the war 7 The
role of Vietnam in the development of the Cold War Examination advice
and practice
Chapter 6 The Cuban Revolution 1 Cuba before 1959
2 Castro before 1959 3 Eisenhower, Cuba and Castro Examination
advice and practice
Chapter 7 From Kennedy to Carter: US foreign policy in
Latin America 1961-81 1 President Kennedy and Latin America 2
President Johnson and Latin America 3 President Nixon and control of
the Western Hemisphere 4 President Carter, human rights, the Panama
Canal and Nicaragua Examination advice and practice
Chapter 8 Cuba
in the Cold War 1 Castro's domestic policies 2 Cuban foreign
policy 3 Castro's Cuba: conclusions Examination advice and
practice
Chapter 9 The impact of the Cold War on Latin America 1 The
debate over the external connection 2 Conclusions about the impact of
the Cold War on Latin America Timeline Glossary Further Reading
Internal Assessment
Vivienne Sanders has written extensively and successfully on American history in the Access to History series. She taught A Level History for over 30 years, mostly in independent schools, and is now retired.
