GCSE 2016
Guide to teaching Edexcel Period Study: Super Power Relations and the Cold War 1941-91
What and where was the Cold War?
Stalin wasn’t stallin’: How much can a song reveal about who really won WW2?
Was a 1980 hit song right about the B-29 bomber ‘Enola Gay’?
Why couldn’t the USA and USSR be friends?
Why did the Grand Alliance begin to fail in 1945?
Who did most to develop the Cold War 1945-47?
Who should win cartoon of the year for 1945?
How much can we trust internet sites to tell the truth about The Berlin Blockade?
Why were the two biggest communist countries not best friends forever?
What do 1950s sci-fi movies reveal about American fears and attitudes to the Cold War?
Edexcel, AQA, Conflict 1945-72, Cold War 1941-91, GCSE 2016, Key Stage 3: 20th Century
Why did America really get involved in Vietnam?
Who can tell us most about the nuclear arms race, Robert McNamara or Dr Strangelove?
Who was winning the Space Race by 1968?
What caused the Hungarian Uprising in 1956?
What were the consequences of the Hungarian Uprising?
Was the Berlin Wall really built to just annoy the West?
How should we tell the story of the Berlin Wall?
What does Steven Spielberg need to do to improve his history grade for ‘Bridge of Spies’?
What went wrong at the Bay of Pigs?
Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis Decision Making
Edexcel, AQA, Conflict 1945-72, Cold War 1941-91, GCSE 2016, Key Stage 3: 20th Century, Introductory Lessons
What really prevented war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
How close did the Cold War come to Nuclear War?
Edexcel, AQA, Conflict 1945-72, Cold War 1941-91, GCSE 2016, Key Stage 3: 20th Century
Was the Prague Spring another Hungary?
What were the consequences of the Prague Spring?
How real was Detente?
Who was to blame for the Second Cold War?
Why were the people of Berlin able to dismantle the wall?
Did Gorbachev kill the Soviet Union?
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979?