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    BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972 - Part one: The origins of the Cold War — AQA GCSE History

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    1. The end of the Second World War: Yalta and Potsdam Conferences; the division of Germany; contrasting attitudes and ideologies of the USA and the USSR, including the aims of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Attlee and Truman; effect of the dropping of the atom bomb on post-war superpower relations.

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