New GCSE 9-1 The Cold War : the fall of the Berlin Wall

Fully resourced double lesson. This was planned as part of the GCSE Cold War unit. This lesson is one of the final lessons looking at the end of the Cold War. This lesson starts by recapping the role of the Berlin wall and why it was built. It then goes on to consider the events leading up to the destruction of the wall including Schabowski’s announcement. It then draws all prior learning together to consider why communism collapsed in eastern Europe and how this also caused the destruction of the wall through a card sort along a line of significance. The lesson ends by looking at a narrative account question (Edexcel specification).