9 HOURS - A mini unit of 9 x 1 hour lessons on the Cold War. Includes: An introduction to the Cold War Stalin and his leadership The Atomic Bomb The Berlin Blockade Soviet expansion, tactics and consequences The Vietnam War The Cuban Missile Crisis The My Lai Massacre Chairman Mao and his leadership Each lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, source analysis, GCSE-style question practice, clip questions and differentiated activities, starter sheets and much more. Created by an experienced HoD in a UK secondary school. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.

I have created these set of resources for the History Key Stage 3 National Curriculum ‘challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day’. These lessons are also useful if you are studying the Cold War at GCSE, where the students will gain an invaluable insight into the key terms, ideologies, events and people post 1945. The central question throughout these eleven lessons is to find out why civilians feared for their lives during the Cold War. They are closely linked together and students continually plot their ideas around the key question, which can be referred back to each lesson (either dated or colour coded) to show progress throughout this unit of work. Pupils will learn the significance and impact of the arms race on the wider world and be able to see the causes and consequences of the Berlin blockade and airlift finally culminating in the building of the Berlin Wall. They will learn key historical terms such as containment, buffer zones, mutually assured destruction and the domino theory as well as understand the differences between the capitalist and communist ideologies. They will be given sources to analyse such as the evidence from the moon landings in 1969 and make historical inferences from them as to whether they are fact or fiction. Furthermore they will be able to write structured accounts and narratives on the Vietnam war as to whether US soldiers committed war crimes by killing innocent civilians or how much of a threat is North Korea to world peace? Each lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and ideas used by current history teachers on twitter. The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint and can be changed to suit. I have included a couple of free lessons to give an idea of what is being offered. I strongly recommend using GCSE style questions from your chosen exam board and markschemes to assess the pupils at the end of this unit, which are always available on line. The 11 lessons are broken down into the following: L1 The defeat of Germany in 1945 L2 Introduction to the Cold War L3 The Arms Race L4 The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift L5 The Berlin Wall L6 The Korean War L7 The Cuban Missile Crisis L8 Man on the Moon L9 The Vietnam War L10 Cold War sports L11 Mikhail Gorbachev (+ Key word History display) Any reviews would be greatly appreciated.

Full unit of Cold War. Created for Y9 in preparation for GCSE including assessment. Includes L1. War of Ideas What is Capitalism and Communism? L2. Which event worsened relations between the West and East the most? L3.How far did the Marshall Plan increase tensions between America and Russia? L4. Why was the Berlin Blockade a turning point in Cold War tensions? L5. Who won the Space Race? L6. How did the Berlin Wall affect lives in Berlin? L7. Why did Peter Fechter die trying to escape from East Berlin? L8. Who was the most responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis? L9. ASSESSMENT Cuban Missile Crisis Sources? L10. How did the outcome of the Prague Spring impact on the Czech people? L11. Which factor is the most important for the Fall of the Berlin Wall? L12. Who ended the Cold War? L13. End of Unit Assessment L14. Has Russia changed since the Cold War ended? Normal price £36 if bought separately .