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Unit content:
• Origins of the Cold War
• The division of Europe: The ‘iron curtain’ and the Berlin crises
• South-East Asia as superpower proxy war: The Korean and Vietnam conflicts
• The nuclear dimension
• Moments of crisis: Suez, Budapest, Prague
• Détente and Helsinki accords
• The role of ideology
• The rise and role of international organisations: the United Nations and the European Union
• The Cold War on a global scale: the African experience
• Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War