Origins of The Cold War

Question 1

Name and date ALL of the Cold War American presidents in chronological order.

Answer 1

1. Franklin D Roosvelt (1933-1945)
2. Harry S Truman (1945-1953)
3. Dwight D Eisenhower (1953-1961)
4. John F Kennedy (1961-1963)
5. Lyndon B Johnson (1963-1969)
6. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
7. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
8. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
9. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
10. George HW Bush Senior (1989-1993)

Question 2

Name and date ALL of the Soviet Leaders in chronological order.

Answer 2

1. Vladimir Lenin (1917-1924)
2. Josef Stalin (1924-1953)
3. Nikita Khrushchev (1955-1964)
4. Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)
5. Yuri Andropov (1982-1984)
6. Konstantin Cherenenko (1984-1985)
7. Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991)

Question 3

How would a structuralist historian interpret the Cold War?

Answer 3

Structuralists believe individuals only have a limited impact within the systems in which they operate. Eg: Svetlana Aliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter said “Stalin was impotent in the face of the frighful system which had grown up around him”

Question 4

What was the Hallestein doctrine?

Answer 4

It meant that West Germany did not recognise East Germany as a state, and would sanction any states which maintained diplomatic ties with East Germany (except from the USSR).
It succeeded in isolating the GDR for a long time.

*It ended in 1971 following the Four Power Agreement, with Wily Brandt pursuing Ostpolitik.