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... Committed to providing your students with captivating history & geography lessons that seamlessly align with curriculum schemes-Tldrake Lessons are your way to enhance your teaching.
Well-crafted resources that not only smartly sync with curriculum schemes but also empower you to lead your students to exam success.
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Students will gain an overview of the long-term causes of tensions between the newly emerging superpowers of the post-1945 era and
Will be able to chart events in the years 1943-53.
Will develop skills of analysis of interpretations.
This covers the very dramatic ten years from the death of Stalin to the downfall of Khrushchev in 1964.
Assesses the part of new players in explaining the key pattern of conciliation, confrontation and then renewed conciliation.
Explores the significance for east-west relations of, the Sino-Soviet split- Khrushchev and Mao personality clash.
Maps specified developments along the European Iron Curtain and in relation to nuclear weapons.
Highlights the flowering of some degree of liberalisation followed by the savage repression in Hungary, the withdrawal from Austria but the renewed confrontation in Berlin.
Recognise the same oscillating pattern repeated with regard to nuclear weapons with the nuclear confrontation over Cuba followed by the Test Ban Treaty.
How did the superpowers react during the crises of the ‘Thaw’?
To compare the reactions of the West to the Hungarian Uprising (1956) and Berlin Wall (1962)
Key events of the uprising
How did US foreign policy develop under Truman, Eisenhower & Kennedy?
To identify key characteristics of the ‘New Look’ & ‘Flexible Response’
To assess the extent they marked a change from previous US foreign policy
Topic 2: Conciliation and confrontation, 1953-64
This covers the very dramatic ten years from the death of Stalin to the downfall of Khrushchev in 1964.
Assess the part of new players in explaining the key pattern of conciliation, confrontation and then renewed conciliation.
Lesson 1 Peaceful Coexistence
The impact of Stalin’s death on Cold War relations
To explain how ‘Peaceful Coexistence’ developed
Stalin’s motives for expanding Soviet influence in Europe
Analyse interpretations of Stalin & the Berlin Blockade
To explain different schools of thought on the origins of the CW
The significance of the clash and role of personalities, including Stalin, Molotov, Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Bevin and Mao.
Debate: What explains the outbreak and development of the Cold War in the year 1943-45?
The part played by Truman in emergence of Cold War
Why was Berlin so important?
Main reasons why the Berlin Blockade occurred
Debate-Most significant turning point in the development of Cold War in the period 1945-48?
To understand and explain the development of the Cold War as a continuation of ‘traditional’ great power rivalry as ‘superpower’ rivalry (USA v USSR) – expansion or defence?
Understand the impact of the Czechoslovakian Crisis of 1948 on Western attitudes towards the USSR?
Evaluate the impact of Truman’s character on Cold War
Identify reasons for Truman Doctrine & Marshall Aid (the Walnut)
Did Truman increase Cold War tensions?
To explain the impact of the Long and Novikov telegrams (1946).
To judge the impact of the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech.
The methods of and reasons for Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe
