Paper 1 and 2 Historians

Alan Bullock

“charismatic leader” and appeal to populist movement, willing to do anything

Piers Brendon

consolidation through economy

Ian Kershaw

Nazism = Hitlerism and is different from Fascism because of the focus on scapegoating Jews

Niall Ferguson

Britain was overly isolationist and tried to avoid conflict

Nathaniel Peffer

Communist Army was more effective than the Nationalists

Jonathan Spence

Cultural Revolution was not well orchestrated and led to Mao’s downfall

Juliana Heaslet

The Red Guard movement was disorganized and uncontrollable

Henry Kissinger

US profits from diplomacy with China

Howard Zinn

Truman administration advanced Cold War crisis to prop up the US economy

John Lewis Gaddis 

both fault of US and US, concludes that Stalin specifically was responsible for the Cold War and that the best efforts of American statesmanship could not have avoided it

Bruce Cumings 

revisionist - Joint affair to varying degrees for proxy power

George Kennan

advocated for containment and said the USSR was expansionist in nature

Arthur Schlesinger Jr

USSR to blame, expansionism, violating Yalta, CMC