The+Cold+War

Useful Websites for revision [|Cold War Revision - iohndclare] - useful for an overview of the main topics - includes maps, images and sources [|Revision notes - johndclare] - click on numbers 15-20 for detailed revision notes [|Interactive diagrams] - excellent mindmaps of each topic - look under Superpower relations [|BBC Bitesize revision] - go through revision notes and then test yourself!

Student Text Books on Cold War //Super Power Rivalry// - The Cold War 1945-1991 by Tony McAleavy //GCSE Modern World History// by Ben Walsh (pages 318-352)

Revision activities: Be prepared to answer one of the four questions in the below Ppt in class on Wednesday 13 April

[|Living graph - How did the Cold War Develop between 1949-62?] =[|Time line of the Cold War]=

Unit topic outline - Cold War (1945-61)

 * **Reasons for the Cold War**
 * Historical and Ideological differences
 * Impact of the Second World War on superpower relations
 * **Early developments of the Cold War 1945-49**
 * Yalta and Potsdam conferences 1945
 * Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe 1945-48
 * Iron Curtain speech and Truman Doctrine (Marshal plan) 1947
 * Berlin Blockade - NATO formed 1949
 * **The Cold War in the 1950s**
 * Korean War 1950-53
 * The Warsaw Pact 1955 and the Secret Speech 1956
 * Hungarian uprising 1956
 * Arms Race and Space Race 1956-62
 * **Berlin Crisis 1961**
 * **The Cuban Missiles Crisis 1962**

= __Reasons for the Cold War 1945-1949__ = **Ideological** (Capitalism vs Communism) and **Historical** (Impact of WW2) **Differences** [|Causes of the Cold War - Johndclare] [|ideological differences - revise and test yourself] McAleavy pgs 4-5 Walsh pgs 326-327 __ Early Developments of the Cold War __
 * Tasks:
 * 1) number 1 on worksheet 'Roots of the Cold War - ideas' from Active History workpack
 * 2) Create a poster using Comic Life - number 3 p. 327 in Walsh ||

Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
[|Interactive diagram - Yalta & Potsdam] [|Clips Potsdam conference] [|Yalta and Potsdam - Johndclare] [|Potsdam and Yalta - revise and test yourself] McAleavy - pgs 6-13 Walsh - pgs 318-323 Soviet Takeover of East Europe [|Interactive diagram - Soviet Takeover of East Europe] [|East Europe Post-it Map] [|Salami Tactics - Johndclare] [|Soviet expansion - revise and test yourself] McAleavy pgs 14-17 Walsh p 324 - excellent map of Soviet takeover = Iron Curtain Speech = [|Churchill's Fulton Speech] - Johndclare McAleavy p13 Walsh p323 History File Video - Berlin 1945-48
 * Tasks
 * 1) Do the online [|Yalta Simulation] and complete the worksheet from the Active History work pack
 * 2) Complete the Active History worksheet - Yalta and Potsdam - What really happened? ||

= Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan = [|Interactive diagram - Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan] [|Truman and Marshall Plan - Johndclare] [|Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan - revise and test yourself] McAleavy pgs 18-25 Walsh pgs 328-330 Essay - Why had the USA and the USSR become rivals by 1947? [|Priority chart - Why did the USA and USSR becomes rivals by 1947?] I[|nteractive diagrams - Origins of the Cold War] [|Cold War Timeline] McAleavy p 30-31 - Review Walsh p335 - Who was to blame? = Berlin Blockade - 1948-1949 and NATO set up 1948 = [|Interactive diagram- Berlin Blockade] [|Berlin blockade - revise and test yourself] McAleavy pgs 26-29 Walsh pgs 331-334 [|Berlin Blockade interactive Newsfeed] - fill out the table/time line in your Active History work pack using this 'newsfeed' ||
 * Tasks:

=__ The Cold War in the 1950s __= = Korean War - 1950-1953 =

[|Korean War tasks]

 * 1) Use info from no. 5 to add to your column in your notebooks on consequences of the war
 * 2) No 7 - Cartoon analysis - complete the activity and save your work
 * 3) No 8 - Go over the Revision notes if you have time remaining

[] [|Korean war - revise and test yourself]

Video - 20th Century Battlefields - Korea 1951

The Warsaw Pact - 1955
[] [|peaceful co-existence or growing tension] - revise and test yourself

Secret Speech - 1956
= Hungarian Uprising - 1956 = Design a newspaper front page for 4th November 1956, from either an American, Soviet or underground Hungarian perspective. [|Hungarian revolution - revise and test yourself]

History File Video - Hungary 1956 = Arms and Space Race - 1956-1961 =

- Answer question [] [|U2 incident - revise and test yourself]

History File Video - US and the Arms Race 1956-60 =__ ** Berlin Crisis 1961 ** __= [|Why was the wall built?] [|East German Propaganda]

Telling the story of the Berlin Wall through images [|Berlin Wall History] - This is an excellent website full of images of the wall from 1961 to its fall!

[|Berlin Wall - Revise and test yourself] =__ Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 __=
 * 1) go to this website to learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis[| Case Study - Cuban Missile Crisis] Download and complete the worksheet found at the top of this page. By the end of the this activity you should have a clear understanding of the following points: (be sure to view all the sources on the right hand side of the page)
 * The reasons why Cuba became the centre of a Cold War crisis
 * How serious the crisis was
 * The consequences of the Cuban Crisis.

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History File Video - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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