A useful revision resource - a timeline of the Cold War crises which breaks down ‘what happened’ and the ‘consequences’ including;
A divided Berlin - refugee crisis, Khrushchev’s ultimatum, summit meetings and the Berlin Wall
Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring and Czechoslovakia
ALSO INCLUDED: Answers for the whole sheet!
Best printed double sided A3.
Ideal for teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Superpower Relations and the Cold War.
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Cold War
The aims of this lesson are to explain what the Cold War was in post war Europe and how it developed between the two existing Superpowers in 1945.
The USA and the USSR had different ideologies and students will learn the differences between Capitalism and Communism.
Furthermore, despite cordial relations at the three meetings held before the end of the war at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, suspicions were soon aroused.
Students will analyse the preceding decisions made about the divisions of Germany and Berlin and make informed judgements as to why these suspicions developed.
The central enquiry of this and subsequent lessons is to ask why did civilians fear for their lives? Students will map out their ideas each lesson (which can be plotted in different colours or dates to show the progress of their learning and centred around a lightbulb) and build up a picture of how these and different countries in the world responded and acted in this new nuclear age.
The resource comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change and is differentiated.
I have also included suggested teaching strategies to deliver the lesson.
Revision sheet of content for each Key Topic of the Edexcel International Relations and the Cold War Paper 2 for History GCSE.
Print for students in A3.
Edexcel GCSE 9-1, Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
This 22 page Revision Guide is tailored to the above Edexcel specification for GCSE 9-1.
It is broken down into 4 main sections: Origins of the Cold War, Increasing tensions, Détente and the end of the Cold War.
I have been inspired to write this Revision Guide on account of the students I teach struggling with the course content of this unit and applying the skills in how to answer the GCSE questions.
This Revision Guide therefore includes 21 GCSE practice exam questions and gives examples on how to answer each, using model answers.
This guide will enable all learners to achieve the higher grades with clear guidance on how to achieve them.
The questions target consequence, significance and analytical narrative with a focus on analysing events and finding connections that explain the way in which the events unfolded.
The information is also broken down into an easy to use format to aid the students.
The guide can be used for revision, interleaving, home learning as well as class teaching. For home learning, each student taking GCSE History has a copy assigned to them on a google drive and it is used frequently when using google classroom assignments such as revision for assessments.
This Revision Guide has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow and can be edited and changed to suit in Microsoft Word and PDF format.
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The Cold War
The aim of this lesson is to explore the winds of change within the USSR as Perestroika and Glasnost are introduced with the appointment of Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
But despite all the achievements he made, was it all in vain and just how successful was he with the Soviet Union in his short six years in office?
Students are required to emoji rate the problems facing Gorbachev in 1985 and then justify the most serious one using a pressure gauge.
Furthermore they have to evaluate how successful his policies were and how they were received in the west as compared to back home.
A thinking quilt at the end challenges their thinking as they have to group all they have learnt into categories and then explain the significance of each fact.
The central enquiry of this and subsequent lessons is to ask why did civilians fear for their lives during the Cold War? Students will map out their ideas each lesson (which can be plotted in different colours or dates to show the progress of their learning and centred around the key question) and build up a picture of how these and different countries in the world responded and acted in this new nuclear age.
The resource comes in PowerPoint formats if there is a wish to adapt and change and is differentiated.
I have also included suggested teaching strategies to deliver the lesson.
9-1 GCSE Edexcel Superpower Relations 1941-1991
A 25 question multiple choice quiz to revise the Cold War unit
Simple and easy to use for students
Tailored for Edexcel, but can be used for AQA, OCR, WJEC, iGCSE
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Model Answers for GCSE Edexcel History: Superpower Relations and the Cold War
This document (7 pages) contains 11 model answers and 2 plans. This style of question can be found in Paper 2 of Edexcel GCSE History (P4: Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91)
A list of the questions answered are also available in the preview.
Students can use these as inspiration to construct their own answers. Ideal for students who have fallen behind on revision or for mock exams.
Written by a straight 9 student with an offer to study at Cambridge, and have been fully corrected by an experienced Examiner and teacher!
CONSEQUENCE QUESTIONS
Explain two consequences of the Tehran Conference of November 1943
Explain two consequences of the Potsdam Conference of July 1945.
Explain two consequences of the Truman Doctrine.
Explain two consequences of the Marshall Plan.
Explain two consequences for relations between the USA and the Soviet Union of Reagan becoming President.
Explain two consequences of Gorbachev’s new thinking on Eastern Europe.
Explain two consequences of the Cuban Revolution of 1959
Explain two consequences of Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision to abandon the Brezhnev Doctrine - NOTE PLAN ONLY
NARRATIVE ACCOUNT QUESTIONS
Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Soviet expansion in eastern Europe in the years 1945-48.
Write a narrative account analysing the key events in the Soviet Union in the years 1989-91. You may use the following in your answer: The impact of Sinatra Doctrine, Developments in East Germany.
Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. You may use the following in your answer: Imre Nagy, Soviet Tanks.
IMPORTANCE QUESTIONS
The importance of the Potsdam Conference for early Cold War tension between the USA and the Soviet Union.
Explain the importance of Ronald Reagan for relations between the USA and the Soviet Union - DETAILED PLAN ONLY
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9 HOURS - A mini unit of 9 x 1 hour lessons on the Cold War. Includes:
An introduction to the Cold War
Stalin and his leadership
The Atomic Bomb
The Berlin Blockade
Soviet expansion, tactics and consequences
The Vietnam War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The My Lai Massacre
Chairman Mao and his leadership
Each lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, source analysis, GCSE-style question practice, clip questions and differentiated activities, starter sheets and much more. Created by an experienced HoD in a UK secondary school.
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A number of Cold War aqa A Level essay plans
Highly detailed and structured into arguments for students
example judgments reached
These cover the entire of the course and there are example essays from every key topic
Concise and practical guidance sheets for how to approach each of the three questions on the EDEXCEL Superpower Relations and the Cold War paper.
Each sheet question includes:
Guidance on how to structure each answer
Guidance on how to plan an answer
Sample colour coded answer that exemplifies the key skills required
Top tips for answering each question
Advice on timings
The sheets have multiple uses:
They can be given to students as an invaluable revision resource
They can support new teachers with understanding how to approach the paper and the different question styles
They can be used as the basis of an entire lesson in which students complete the sample answer
They can be displayed in classrooms and refered to in general teaching of the paper
This great value Cold War bundle includes:
The three conferences: Tehran, Yalta & Potsdam
The dropping of the Atomic bomb
The Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Vietnam War
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Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
This lesson aims to assess Reagan’s new approach to the Soviet Union and the reasons for a Second Cold War.
Students learn about the precarious nature of the life span of some of the Soviet leaders as well Reagan’s background before he became President. They then have to emoji rate and judge his Presidency as to how tough a stance he takes using a number of statements.
There are also some statement options to judge correctly as well as a differentiated questioning task.
Some GCSE question practice on the importance of Reagan’s Presidency can be completed at the end of the lesson, with help given using a scaffold and a student friendly markscheme if required.
The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout this and subsequent lessons to show the progress of learning.
The lessons in this bundle are therefore linked together to build up a picture of how diplomacy, propaganda and spying led two Superpowers with opposing political ideologies to create tensions, rivalries and distrust as well as subsequently forming mutual understanding and cooperation over the time period in question.
The resource includes retrieval practice, suggested teaching strategies, differentiated material and GCSE question practice.
It comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
A set of fifteen knowledge organisers to assist teaching and revision of the Edexcel GCSE History unit, Superpower Relations & The Cold War, 1941-91. The design is inspired by the current dual-coding trend but also clearly organises the information to help students think clearly about the topic. Designed jointly with @MrPattisonTeach
**Detente and the Cold War**.
A full lesson focusing on Detente and the Cold War. A great lesson for all higher KS3 / KS4 students but here is being used as part of my Cold War topic. Suitable for both British curriculum and the international curriculum.
Attached is a great learning resource - very straight forward and easy to use. All resources are included for a full lesson. A great supplement to which ever textbook you are using and exam board studying. No specific exam board is mentioned or needed.
Excellent for PGCE students / NQTs / non-specialists as all the work has been done for you.
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Summary sheet for EDEXCEL: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
All events are summarised into cause, events, consequences with an addditional sheet for “What else do I need to know”
(Also comes with a publisher version that can be edited - allows for students to fill in the blanks as in-class revision)
Summary sheet for EDEXCEL: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
All events are summarised into cause, events, consequences with an addditional sheet for “What else fo I need to know”
(Also comes with a publisher version that can be edited - allows for students to fill in the blanks as in-class revision)
I have created these set of resources for the History Key Stage 3 National Curriculum ‘challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day’.
These lessons are also useful if you are studying the Cold War at GCSE, where the students will gain an invaluable insight into the key terms, ideologies, events and people post 1945.
The central question throughout these eleven lessons is to find out why civilians feared for their lives during the Cold War. They are closely linked together and students continually plot their ideas around the key question, which can be referred back to each lesson (either dated or colour coded) to show progress throughout this unit of work.
Pupils will learn the significance and impact of the arms race on the wider world and be able to see the causes and consequences of the Berlin blockade and airlift finally culminating in the building of the Berlin Wall.
They will learn key historical terms such as containment, buffer zones, mutually assured destruction and the domino theory as well as understand the differences between the capitalist and communist ideologies.
They will be given sources to analyse such as the evidence from the moon landings in 1969 and make historical inferences from them as to whether they are fact or fiction.
Furthermore they will be able to write structured accounts and narratives on the Vietnam war as to whether US soldiers committed war crimes by killing innocent civilians or how much of a threat is North Korea to world peace?
Each lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and ideas used by current history teachers on twitter.
The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint and can be changed to suit. I have included a couple of free lessons to give an idea of what is being offered.
I strongly recommend using GCSE style questions from your chosen exam board and markschemes to assess the pupils at the end of this unit, which are always available on line.
The 11 lessons are broken down into the following:
L1 The defeat of Germany in 1945
L2 Introduction to the Cold War
L3 The Arms Race
L4 The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
L5 The Berlin Wall
L6 The Korean War
L7 The Cuban Missile Crisis
L8 Man on the Moon
L9 The Vietnam War
L10 Cold War sports
L11 Mikhail Gorbachev
(+ Key word History display)
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An extensive revision guide crated to support students through the new Edexcel 9-1 History GCSE (Superpower relations). This revision guide offers condensed notes, quick quizzes, exam questions and model answers.
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