Supporting Home Learning in Year 10 Enquiry.
Superpower Relations and Cold War 1941-91
The investigation into the emergence, course and demise of the Cold War between the capitalist USA and communist USSR as the worlds two superpowers in the period 1941-91 includes a consideration of the origins of the Cold War, 1941–58, the development of Cold War crises 1958-70 and the end of the Cold War, 1970–91 |
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Cold War Revision PowerPoint |
Key topic 1: What is the narrative of the origins of the Cold War, 1941–58?
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Independent LearningStretch and challenge
1 What is Communism? 2 Communist Russia. 3 Capitalist America. 4 Iron Curtain. 5 Truman Doctrine 6 Marshall Plan 7 Post War Germany 8 Berlin Blockade 9 Cold War Alliances 10 Nuclear Weapons 11 Space Race 12 Hungarian Uprising 13 Test
Further Youtube Links
1. Grand Alliances (The Grand Alliance, Ideology, Conferences-agreements/disagreements ) 3.54 mins
2. Soviet Expansion (Causes of Soviet Expansion, buffer zone, percentage deals, telegrams, Eastern European take over, consequences-soviet control, West response) 3.43 mins 3. Truman (Truman’s aims, Greece, domino theory, Marshall Plan, impact eg on Western Europe, Soviet Cominform & Comecon) 3.02 mins 4. Berlin Blockade (origins, Berlin’s significance, Trizonia-joining zones, blockade, Western airlift, impact on relations, NATO) 3.59 mins 5. Arms Race (origins- A Bomb, military spending, H-Bomb, Space Race, Missile bases) 3.08 mins 6. Hungarian Uprising (worsening relations, Stalin’s death-destalinisation, Khrushchev, Rakosi terror, demonstrations, Nagy, reforms-freedoms, Soviet response, West’s reaction) 3.32 mins |
Key Topic 2 What was the importance of crises in Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia for the development of the Cold War 1958-70?
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Independent LearningStretch and challenge
1 Berlin crises 2 Berlin Wall 3 Castro and Cuba 4 Cuban Missile Crises 5 Czechoslovakia 6 Test
Further Youtube Links
1 Cuban Revolution 1959 7.(links to US, causes, Castro, socialism, consequences-Bay of Pigs invasion) 3.25mins
2 Increasing tensions in Berlin 1961 7.(refugee crisis, Ultimatum, Paris & Vienna summits, defence spending) 2.45mins 3 Cuban Missile Crises 1962 Crisis (Soviet missile bases, Kennedy’s blockade, negotiations-letters &agreements, Khrushchev, treaties) 3.38min 4 Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961 7.(closed border, wall developed, flashpoint-Checkpoint Charlie, consequences- separation, escape attempts, eased tensions, Kennedy’s visit & speech ) 3.28mins 5 Prague Spring 1968 7.(Czechoslovakia under Novotny, Dubcek’s reforms, reactions, Brezhnev) 2.17mins 6 Brezhnev Doctrine (Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Warsaw Pact, Dubcek, Brezhnev Doctrine, consequences-protests, Vietnam, Communist reactions) 2.20mins |
Key topic 3: How did the Cold War come to an end in the period 1970–91?
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Independent LearningStretch and Challenge
1 Detente 2 Soviets in Afghanistan 3 Ronald Reagan 4 Cold War Rebooted 5 Glasnost and Perestroika 6 Collapse of Communism 7 Fall of Berlin Wall 8 Test
Further Youtube Links
1 Detente 3.41mins
2 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 3.28mins 3 Gorbachev's new thinking 2.38mins 4 End of Communism in Eatern Europe 2.53mins 5 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 1.46mins 6 Collapse of the USSR 2.29mins |
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