to read the passage clerly to give the most correct big message!

    To mention many evidence!!!!!

    blames have to be on actions!!!! -> basically if portraying in neg. views = blaming

    废话少一点，多放点干货！！！！！！

    when writing extensions:
    ‘quote’
    what he is referring to
    examples of what he is referring to

    add about tension

    Don’t really need a small conclusion for each paragraph

    Cut down some similar quotes

    suspicions to SU:
    US political leaders:

    • George F. Kennan, Churchill, Ambassador Harriman

    US militiary leders:

    • General Clay, General Marshall, Eisenhower

    Cominform - Stalin revival of world conquest intentions

    give points that are most relevant!!!!!

    when assessing blames, be clear for who did what!!!

    • if blames on attacker - more blames
    • if blames on reactor - less blames (but still could be some!!!! depends on the attitudes toward the reaction side; e.g. if positive and goodwill or sort of forced then traditionalist/revisionist; if self-delusion / intentional then post-revisionist)

    don’t go off topic

    use USSR, don’t use SU

    when concluding big message

    • papers from 20 on have 2 big messages
    • ensure to scan through the whole passage again in case of missing info!!!!

    when deciding on sides, look for the central sentence (usually in the conclusion); even if there are some distractions e.g. of Stalin’s ambitions, if not directly linked to the CW, consider it as less important.

    when mentioning US hostility to SU - Riga axiom!!

    concessions of Western to US:

    • Balkan states
      • Lithuania
      • Latvia
      • Ethuania
    • Poland
      • Curzon line
      • Oder-Neisse line
    • Eastern Europe
    • East Germany

    election! Declaration of Liberated Europe from Yalta!

    military comparison in 1940s

    • USSR conventional army strength
    • US naval strength
    • fairly equal aerial strength while US more superior on air defense

    V1 V2

    • short-range ballistic missiles

    Jet engines

    Turkey and Greece hated each other

    one-party state is center to Marxist-Leninism

    MP is announced in 1947 & passed in 1948

    1946-48: general elections in EE
    1947-48: consolidation of Communist power

    1946 - General Clay announced that west G will no longer pay reparation goods to the East
    1948 March - US announced embargo on strategic goods to USSR and all recipients of MP to do the same

    USSR demanding mandate in Libya, Yugoslavia in Trieste, and USSR a military base in Dardanelles

    once, Byrnes offer credits and technologies to USSR if US ideological and economic penetration into EE

    Riga axiom & the westerners’ fear of the USSR’s purges