A series of single slide PowerPoint presentations introducing the key individual from each of the Breadth and Depth studies.
The Depth Study slides on Trade and Royal Navy are already free from my Shop
Why Here? Why Now? Introductory slides for Edexcel Gaining and Losing an Empire. Used for introductory overview work and context
Trade - Breadth Study - Free as an example
Royal Navy
Thirteen Colonies - Free as an example
Australia
Canada
India
Nile Valley
Cold War (TV Series) Ep.10 - Cuba - Supporting Worksheet for the BBC / CNN co-production, narrated by Kenneth Brannagh - Written as a extension and enrichment task for GCSE, it would also be appropriate for A Level studies.
Written in Publisher for A3 printing, the document can be edited for printing as a PDF in A4.
Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising American interests, resulting in the United States imposing an economic boycott, and the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the detection of Soviet medium range missiles stationed in Cuba, the United States imposes a blockade on the island, and the Soviet Union mobilises for war. The Cuban Missile Crisis is eventually resolved through secret negotiations, in which the United States and the USSR agree to withdraw missiles from Cuba and Turkey respectively. Interviewees include Fidel Castro, Walter Cronkite, Pierre Salinger and Theodore Sorensen. The pre-credits scene has interviews of Fidel Castro, Robert McNamara and Anatoly Dobrynin explaining how close they felt the world was to a nuclear holocaust.