GCSE History Edexcel: Cold War and S. Relations - Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum (Lesson 10)

This lesson asks the students to study the Berlin Refugee Crisis and link it to Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum of 1958.
STARTER: Students recap the differences between East Germany and West Germany by organising a mixed up set of facts into a table.
RECAP: A filling in the missing term task to help students recap their knowledge of the Berlin Blockade. the Berlin Airlift and the official division of Berlin into East and West.
BACKGROUND: An animated ad easy to follow narrative of the key events of the Berlin Ultimatum with clear maps of Germany and Berlin, photographs and key terms (see image).
TASK 1: Students to complete a w/s covering the timeline of events and explaining them.
TASK 2: Students to advise John F Kennedy about how to deal with the Soviet Union. Writing frame included.
EXTENSION TASKS: Were the Summit Meetings a waste of time?
EXTENSION TASK: A political cartoon about the Berlin Ultimatum.
LESSON RECAP: A 14 question quiz.
FACT SHEET: Can be easily copied onto A4 and means that this lesson does not require any text books.

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