Evaluate the impact of Cold War tensions on two countries (excluding the USSR and the US).

Candidates will make an appraisal of the impact of Cold War tensions on two countries of their choice. While the focus of the response must be within the timeframe of the Cold War, the impact on the two countries does not need to be contemporaneous and they may or may not be chosen from the same region. The candidates must not use either the USSR or the US as these are excluded in the History Guide. Candidates may choose to deal with the impact of Cold War tensions on each country separately. Alternatively, candidates may deal with the question thematically and gauge how individual issues affected the two states in the same or different ways and/or to the same or a different extent. There may also be an attempt to deal with the issues chronologically.