Cold War (1941–91): Consequence Question Mastery Bundle – Diagnostic + WWYD Examiner Edition

How do students consistently secure full marks on Cold War consequence questions across the entire specification?

This fully resourced GCSE bundle combines six structured exam-skills lessons covering consequence questions across all three Cold War topics: Origins (1941–58), Cold War Crises (1958–68) and the End of the Cold War (1970–91).

The bundle brings together two complementary approaches:

• Diagnostic True/False consequence quizzes targeting chronology errors, overstretched causation and common misconceptions
• Interactive WWYD “Examiner Edition” lessons where students act as examiners — ranking model answers, diagnosing weaknesses and identifying precisely what earns 4/4 marks

Together, these lessons move students from knowledge recall to examiner-level precision.

The bundle includes:

Topic 1 – Origins of the Cold War (1941–58)
Potsdam Conference
Marshall Plan

Topic 2 – Cold War Crises (1958–68)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Topic 3 – End of the Cold War (1970–91)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Fall of the Berlin Wall

Across the six lessons, students engage with:

• Consequence True/False diagnostic slides (6 total)
• “Most Dangerous Misconception” evaluative tasks
• Three carefully tiered model student extracts per WWYD task (full marks / descriptive / overstretched)
• Structured ranking and justification prompts
• Clear reveal slides with full-mark model answers
• Explicit focus on chronology, proportionality and cause → effect reasoning
• Built-in differentiation and written extension challenges
• Complete slide-by-slide teacher notes in Asa Merrin’s structured format

This bundle provides full-specification coverage of the 4-mark consequence question. It strengthens chronological security, analytical precision and proportional causation — ensuring students avoid hindsight thinking, single-cause oversimplification and chronological compression under exam pressure.

Perfect for Edexcel GCSE Superpower Relations and the Cold War (1941–91), and easily adaptable for AQA, OCR or Eduqas.

This is a complete Cold War consequence mastery pack — moving students from diagnostic identification of errors to confident full-mark performance.