Key Topic 1 – The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-58
Key Topic 2 – Cold War crises, 1958-70
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?
