Key Topic 1 – The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-58
Lesson 1: What led to the formation of the ‘Grand Alliance’?
Lesson 2: What do the war-time conferences reveal about East-West relations?
Lesson 3: How did the atom bomb affect East-West relations?
Lesson 4: Why did Soviet expansionism lead to further distrust amongst the West?
Lesson 5: What was Truman’s policy of ‘containment’?
Lesson 6: What were Cominform and Comecon?
Lesson 7: What were the events of the Berlin crisis?
Lesson 8: What was Nato and the Warsaw Pact?
Lesson 9: How did the arms race develop?
Lesson 10: What were the events of the Hungarian Uprising?
Key Topic 2 – Cold War crises, 1958-70
Lesson 1: What was Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum?
Key Topic 3 – The end of the Cold War, 1970-91
Lesson 1: How did the superpowers try to reduce tensions in the 1970s?
Lesson 2: Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in December 1979?
Lesson 3: What were the consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Lesson 4: How did Ronald Reagan’s presidency affect the Cold War?
Lesson 5: What was Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’?
Lesson 6: How did the USSR lose control of the satellite states?
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