Mind maps for GCSE History students following the OCR Modern World History course. These cover the start of the Cold war, Cuban Missile Crisis and War in Vietnam

1. Who was to blame
for the Cold War?
Communism
V Capitalism
Damage caused
by WW2
Berlin Blockade
Superpower
Differences
Background to
the Cold War
Alliances 1945 - 55
USSR’s policy on
eastern Europe
USSR
USA
The rise of the superpowers
Potsdam Conference
Political changes in Europe:
occupation, resistance and
liberation
Yalta and Potsdam
Yalta Conference
Tensions at
Potsdam
Iron
Curtain
Satellite
States
The USA’s policy
on eastern Europe
Marshall
Aid
Truman
Doctrine
Greece
Communists take over
Czechoslovakia, 1948 Warsaw Pact
NATO
Comecon
Cominform

2. Who was to blame
for the Cold War?
Conflicting ideologies:
communism V capitalism
Damage caused by the
Second World War
Superpower
Differences
The background to the
Cold War
USSR
USA
Rise of the
superpowers
Potsdam. July –
August 1945
Political changes in Europe:
occupation, resistance and
liberation
Yalta and Potsdam
conferences
Yalta February
1945
Tensions at
Potsdam

3. Who was to blame
for the Cold War?
Berlin Blockade
Alliances 1945 -55.
Iron
Curtain
Satellites
States
The USA’s policy
on eastern Europe
Marshall
Aid
Truman
Doctrine
Greece
Communists take over
Czechoslovakia, 1948
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Comecon
Cominform
The USSR’s policy
on eastern Europe

4. Who won the Cuban
Missile Crisis?
Why did Khrushchev
put missiles into Cuba?
Why did Kennedy react
as he did?
Who won the Cuban
Missile Crisis?
The Cuban
Revolution
How did he react?
Kennedy’s successes
Kruschev’s successes
Cuba before 1959
Fidel Castro takes over
Batista
How did the USA react to
the Cuban Revolution?
The Bay of Pigs
invasion.
Results of the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Events of the crisis

5. Why did the USA get involved in a
war in Vietnam?
My Lai
Massacre
Whose tactics were
the most effective?
Why did the USA get
increasingly involved?
Operation Rolling
Thunder
USA tactics.
Key combat moments
Tet Offensive
Search and
Destroy
Domino Theory
Containment
Supporting
South Vietnam
USA responses.
Vietcong tactics.
Post WW2 situation
Gulf of Tonkin

6. Why did the USA withdraw
from Vietnam?
Effects on US
troops
Other effects on USA
How did the war
end?
Impact of the
war on Vietnam
Effects of the
war on USA
Consequences of failure
for the USA.
Reasons for
the US defeat
NVA and Vietcong
strengths
The reunification of
Vietnam
Vietnamization
Vietnam after the war
Weaknesses
of the USA
Why was a rich superpower like USA defeated
by "a fourth rate army dressed in pyjamas"?
How did Americans protest
against the war?
Why did some Americans
oppose the war?
Events 1970-71