Five 50-minute documentary question sets on the Road to War, designed to support structured viewing and student understanding in secondary history lessons.
This resource includes five complete documentary viewing question sheets, each designed to fill a 50-minute lesson and support active student engagement.
All questions have been written manually, with each documentary fully watched to ensure accuracy and clear alignment with lesson timing.
A structured guided note-taking workbook for the full IGCSE History course, designed to support active learning and reduce passive note-copying.
This workbook covers 7 IGCSE History units:
Treaty of Versailles (TOV)
League of Nations (LON)
Road to War (RTW)
Germany Depth Study
Origins of the Cold War
Containment
Soviet control of Eastern Europe
Content is aligned with the latest Ben Walsh IGCSE History textbook.
Designed to be printed and stapled, the workbook provides students with clear space to write, organise ideas, and build a consistent written record across the course
This resource contains viewing question sheets for a complete 24-episode Cold War documentary series, covering events from 1945 to 1991.
All questions have been written manually. Each episode has been watched in full, and the questions were created specifically to match the content and chronology of the documentary.
Each episode includes a dedicated set of structured questions designed to:
Support student understanding while watching
Encourage active engagement rather than passive viewing
Check key factual knowledge
Provide a clear written record of learning
All episodes have been shown in full, with questions written to closely follow the documentary content and sequence of events.
Curriculum suitability
This resource is suitable for:
IGCSE History
IB History
UK and international secondary history courses
The relevance of each episode to IGCSE and IB History topics is outlined below.
Episode overview and curriculum links
Episodes 1–2: Origins of the Cold War
IGCSE: Reasons for superpower tension after 1945
IB: Rival ideologies, wartime alliances, breakdown of relations
Episodes 3–4: Post-war Europe and economic reconstruction
IGCSE: Marshall Plan, division of Europe
IB: Economic strategies, emergence of blocs
Episodes 5–6: Germany and Berlin
IGCSE: Berlin Blockade, Berlin Wall
IB: Impact of Germany on superpower relations
Episodes 7–9: The Cold War in Asia
IGCSE: Korean War
IB: Regional conflicts and superpower involvement
Episodes 10–11: Cuba and superpower confrontation
IGCSE: Cuban Missile Crisis
IB: Brinkmanship and crisis management
Episodes 12–14: Vietnam and Cold War escalation
IGCSE: Vietnam War
IB: Causes, course, and consequences of proxy wars
Episodes 15–17: Détente and the arms race
IGCSE: Détente
IB: SALT, changing superpower relations
Episodes 18–20: The Soviet bloc and internal challenges
IGCSE: Control of Eastern Europe
IB: Methods of control and resistance
Episodes 21–22: Reform and decline of Soviet power
IGCSE: Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
IB: Structural weaknesses of the USSR
Episodes 23–24: The end of the Cold War
IGCSE: Collapse of Soviet control
IB: End of superpower rivalry