IB History Impact of Leaders Questionbank

Examine the extent to which Gorbachev’s domestic reforms were responsible for the ending of the Cold War by 1991.

Examine the significance of Kennedy’s pursuit of the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 for easing superpower tensions.

Examine the extent to which Khrushchev’s personal leadership explains both the escalation and the partial stabilisation of the Cold War between 1958 and 1963.

To what extent did Truman’s conduct of the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 transform containment into a global and militarised Cold War strategy?

Compare and contrast the significance of Reagan’s leadership and Soviet structural weaknesses in producing the shift from confrontation to negotiation in superpower relations from 1981 to 1988.