Edexcel GCSE Superpower relations and the Cold War Complete Bundle

Unlock the Cold War with 22 Comprehensive GCSE Lessons on Superpower Relations and the Cold War.

The lessons are designed to save you planning time while engaging students with high-quality, exam-focused content.

Features of this bundle:

Full Coverage of the Edexcel unit of study: From the Conferences starting at Tehran through to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, every key event and flashpoint is included.
Clear, Structured Lessons: Each editable PowerPoint lesson includes objectives, engaging activities, exam-style questions, and revision materials, helping students build knowledge and skills in tandem.
Exam-Focused: Lessons are tailored to support GCSE assessments, including importance, consequences and narrative accounts.
Variety of Learning Styles: Includes timelines, maps, worksheets, video links and class discussions to cater to all learners.
Engaging and Accessible: Lessons break down complex historical events into student-friendly, memorable content without sacrificing depth.

Perfect for:

Teachers seeking a complete GCSE Cold War scheme of work.
Non-specialists looking for structured, exam-ready resources.
Students wanting a cohesive and engaging learning journey through a difficult unit of study on the Cold War.

The lessons are as follows:
L1 Origins of the Cold War
L2 Conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam
L3 The Kennan and Novikov Telegrams
L4 Soviet Satellite States
L5 Truman Doctrine
L6 Marshall Aid
L7 Cominform and Comecon
L8 Berlin Crisis 1948
L9 NATO and Warsaw Pact
L10 Significance of Arms Race
L11 Hungarian Uprising
L12 Berlin Ultimatum
L13 Building the Berlin Wall
L14 Cuba and the Bay of Pigs
L15 Cuban Missile Crisis
L16 Prague Spring
L17 Détente and SALT 1
L18 Helsinki Accords and SALT 2
L19 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
L20 Reagan and the Second Cold War
L21 Gorbachev’s new ideas
L22 Fall of the Berlin Wall

The lessons are enquiry based with a key question of how close was the world to a nuclear war using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lessons and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning.

All 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 form mutual understanding and cooperation over the time period in question.

The resources include retrieval practice, suggested teaching strategies, differentiated materials and GCSE exam practice questions.