GCSE History: The Cold War Unit (1945-1989)

This resource was made according to the OCR GCSE Modern History B 2012 Specification J417, but is relevant to any GCSE study of the Cold War. It is 82 Slides long: very useful and extremely detailed (A* level analysis of events)

Contents include:

The nuclear arms race
Review of end of WW2
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences 1945
Conflict in Europe post WW2
Salami Tactics
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Events in Germany including the Berlin Blockade
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Containment/ The Domino Theory

Then an interlude of critical analysis on the key question of where the responsibility for the start of the Cold War lies. Many pieces of evidence for the Orthodox, Revisionist, Post-Revisionist and Post-1991 arguments are presented.

Cuba's communist revolution: Bay of Pigs invasion
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The war in Vietnam.

Then finally, there is a collection of practice 4 and 6 mark questions (SPECIFIC TO OCR MARK SCHEMES, but still useful for revision)