IAL Unit 4 A World Divided: Topic 3. Stalemate and Detente Week 8 L4 Reality of Detente

IAL History Unit 4 A World Divided: Topic 3. Stalemate and Detente

* Students will understand the roles of the specified personalities. Once again, with the exception of Mao, it was a new series of leaders who set the agenda and partially shaped developments in these years. * Students will acquire an understanding of superpower relations and why and to what extent there was change. * Students will understand stresses on the Soviet economy were indirectly referred to by the reference to the need for food imports, but will also be aware of the financial strains placed by the rapid expansion of the Soviet Navy and the cost of easing discontent in Eastern Europe.