Appendices (if needed)

Question 1

What can your appendices contain?

Answer 1

• Conference summaries, for example yalta or Potsdam.
• Timelines of key events for example 1941 - 49 or 1917 - 49. Helps shows how quickly things escalated.
• Primary source extracts - Key quotes or documents you mention but don’t want to fully insert into the essay. For example: Truman Doctrine speech extract, Iron Curtain speech by Churchill, Stalin’s post-war comments.
• A chart comparing Orthodox, revisionist, and post - revisionist views.

Question 2

How would you format these into your appendices?

Answer 2

• Label them Appendix A, Appendix B etc.
• Give each one a title + shirt caption.
• Refer to them clearly in your essay (e.g see appendices B for timeline).

Question 3

What would you include in your summary of the conferences?
(Example of yalta, feb 1945)

Answer 3

Yalta, Feb 1945.
- Attendees: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin.
- Agreements: Free elections in Eastern Europe (disputed). Division of Germany.
- Tensions: Differing views on Poland’s future.

Question 4

What would your timeline look like?

Answer 4

1. 1941 – Nazi invasion of USSR (alliance begins)
2. 1945 – Yalta & Potsdam
3. 1946 – Iron Curtain speech
4. 1947 – Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan
5. 1948–49 – Berlin Blockade