A series of 4/5 lessons on JFK and the Vietnam War. Can be used at A Level - OCR Cold War in Asia, or as part of Edexcel GCSE USA Conflict at Home and Abroad Content: His key beliefs Legacy from Eisenhower Actions in Laos Rise of NLF Assessment of his legacy - would he have withdrawn if he had lived? Comparative tasks comparing culpability of De/JFK in escalating war. Sanders - Cold War in Asia textbook needed in place

This whole lesson can be used over one period or two as the lesson content is quite intense and heavy, yet enjoyable and the pupils really love this character. It centres around the life, beliefs and outlook of Malcolm X using Youtube clips, sources and a worksheet of some key quotes from Malcolm himself. This would be a perfect lesson to complement and facilitate a comparison with MLK as pupils can begin to unpick differences in rhetoric, language, methods and beliefs between the two.

2 powerpoints and resources to support a series of lessons on LBJ and the Vietnam War. Supports: OCR A Level - Cold War in Asia GCSE Edexcel - USA Conflict Home and Abroad Lesson focuses: LBJ’s key beliefs Gulf of Tonkin Tet Offensive Fully differentiated and challenging analytical tasks.

GCSE EDEXCEL Early Elizabethan England Resource Booklet Bundle Includes: 3 Key Topic Work booklets (replacing exercise books!) with inbuilt practice questions 3 corresponding powerpoints Quizzes and some feedback templates if needed End of Unit Assessment This will replace your old exercise books - easy to monitor and track progress and work of the pupils. Information in booklet already with clear and challenging objectives/activities to help them progress! The booklets have ‘Do Now’ retrieval starters with some Cold War/Nazi Germany questions but can be easily adapted and switched to suit your own course.

Key Learning Question: To what extent could the US government’s persecution of Native Americans be remembered as a ‘genocide’? Full SOW - linked to Ofsted Criteria Knowledge based, easy to mark assessment 9 Fully resourced, stimulating, challenging and thought provoking lessons Knowledge Organiser

These series of 3 mini quiz questions are perfect revision and assessment of the A Level Cold War in Asia module. Covering 1945-1960 to the beginning of the Vietnam war, these are perfect starters, assessments of knowledge and fun to help make the course accessible for learners

Was Nixon justified in bombing Cambodia and Laos? Using sources and knowledge on worksheets/slides students will assess the actions of Nixon towards Cambodia and Laos. Was he morally right to bomb these people? and place? Was there any real political gain? or did it cause more harm than good? Pupils will also get the chance to work on an image and understand how it could be manipulated by both sides to suit their needs

Why did Kennedy not intervene in Laos? For ALevel or GCSE students studying the Cold War in Asia. This assesses the reasons why Kennedy decided not to intervene in the growth of communist insurgency in Laos during the height of the Cold War.

How did Nixon change US policy in Vietnam? This offers two similar powerpoints but pitched at either GCSE or A Level (this requires some pages of Cold War in Asia textbook Hodder Education) to suit your needs. It looks at the policy of Vietnamisation, Madman Theory and the Paris Peace Conference with an excellent A3 table to trace the change of Nixon’s policy over his entire Presidency with some applicable assessment opportunity at the end.

This a high quality EDEXCEL GCSE Cold War and Superpower Relations Bundle 3 Key Topic booklets ready to go, be printed and used in class. 3 Corresponding Powerpoints to match the booklets 3 End of Topic Assessments to assess at each stage. (The format for Booklets and PPTs are on Google Docs but transfer across pretty well to Microsoft)

This is a set of 'Stretch and Challenge cards' all ready to be adapted (your teacher name) for your class room. Primarily based around History/Hums tasks, this resource can be used for a 'Stretch and Challenge; Board display or for Plenaries. These activities look at tasks that actually stretch pupils thinking, perceptions of the topic and learning without resorting to 'posters or poetry' making.

Lesson powerpoint, causation cards and blank US map to introduce the 'Great Plains'. Why did people move out here? Pupils will categorise the causes and dig deep into diversity of reason and circumstance, finishing with a lovely 8 marks question to assess learning and understanding

How Far did the Normans change Anglo Saxon justice? Suited for the GCSE Crime and Punishment Edexcel - this includes a slide show on the Norman way of life, how William got to power and a board game to help pupils develop their understanding of the Norman approaches to justice. By the end, pupils should be able to analyse the degree and depth of continuity and change from the Anglo Saxon period.

This lesson introduces LBJ and invites pupils to explore his views on communism, the war in Vietnam and the reasons for his continuation of it. It encourages pupils to assess the nature of continuity and change from JFK to LBJ and the strength of the ‘Containment Trap’ . This requires the OCR Hodder education textbook - Cold War in Asia

This resource looks at the reasons for Johnson escalating in Vietnam - namely the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. This may require some OCR Hodder textbook - Cold War in Asia to supplement knowledge.

This lesson can be adapted to suit the following courses A LEVEL OCR Cold War in Asia GCSE Edexcel - USA problems at home and abroad This requires the hodder - CW in Asia Textbook - cannot include for copyright reasons Whilst giving detailed slides of notes, it also provides students with a stimulating challenge of assessing the options available to JFK and builds on their assessment of significance and importance skills.

This all inclusive Powerpoint details what the Tet Offensive was and its greater significance in the Vietnam War. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the central task requires pupils to think short term, long term and holistically at the event - analysing and assessing a range of points and evidence to decide which side benefited the most from the Tet Offensive. It is suitable and adaptable for GCSE or A Level with differentiated slides to be deleted and amended as required