Worksheet with sources on the first few years of the Cold War

Work together in small (allocated) groups to come up with questions (20 min)

Answer another group’s questions

Review

(Watch Berlin Wall clip below)

Overview from History.com

A bit more detail from the Cold War Museum

And long articles!
– Foreign Policy: Everything you think you know about the collapse of the Soviet Union is wrong
– Foreign Affairs: The Collapse of Soviet power in Europe

Two hours + 10 min reading time.

ONLY ON COLD WAR UNIT

Two equal parts: Essay + Source Analysis. Allow about an hour for each.

Essay should be 800-1000 words.
Well structured.
Full of historical detail.

I will give you the question (there will be options) next Thursday, but you can start by reviewing what we have done… because the sources topic might come from anything we have studied.

SOURCE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK

Year 11 History Source Analysis task

Refer to the separate sheet of sources when answering this question.

Examine the sources carefully.

Answer all parts of the question.

1. Examine Source 1. Identify …   (1 mark)
2. What two conclusions can be drawn from Source 2 about …
   Give evidence from the source to support your conclusions. (2 marks)
3. Examine Source 3. How credible is this source?
   Give reasons for your opinion. (3 marks)
4. To what extent is the information given in Source 3 supported by Source 4?
   Give evidence from each source to support your argument. (4 marks)
5. Examine Sources 4 and 5. With reference to the content and nature of both sources, assess their usefulness and limitations for a historian studying [a topic]. (5 marks)
6. ‘INSERT QUOTE HERE’
   Evaluate this statement with reference to all the sources. (5 marks)

Total /20, therefore roughly three minutes per mark. Half your time should be spent on the last two questions – approx 200 words each.

Choose four impacts of war in Vietnam sourced from these articles, then find statistics, case studies and further information for each.

Write a paragraph on each of the impacts: (Main point, Explanation, Example/s)

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vietnam-war/the-impact-of-war-on-vietnam/

http://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-impact/

Only a very quick overview of Vietnam, after the potted history on Tuesday, and Remembrance Day yesterday.

Overview of Indochina Wars

Points to ponder:
– why ‘wars’?
– motivation of French, Americans (and allies), Vietnamese
– what were a couple of key events? Why?
– impact of Vietnam War on US politics?

Vietnam as a proxy war
http://thevietnamwar.info/proxy-war/

Review

What did you learn?
What did you expect – of the topic? – of yourself?
What was difficult?
What would you do differently next time?
Anything else?

Cold war in the 1980s

I will fill these in with contributions once I get my own computer back. I still need contributions from a number of people… but well done for this section Cameron

After / collapse of detente

Well done Inca and Henri.

Reagan / Gorbachev

Well done George and Josh. Both done homework.

Perestroika: ‘restructuring’: economic, political, social – but didn’t effectively and authoritatively replace the old systems

Glasnost: ‘openness’: open discussion of politics and economics, including criticism of the government.

Fall of Communism

Why did communism collapse seemingly instantaneously in 1989?

Summary from US State Dept

BERLIN WALL

History.com: A good single page with 2:30 video overview

Berlin Wall Memorial (open in Chrome and translate)

Declassified: Rise and fall of the Wall

Context

Cold War in the 1960s

Overview of Detente

Read more at (and the above stolen from!) History.com

More detail:

Global Security – Cold War in the 1970s

CSU HSC Online – Detente

Office of the Historian (US Govt)
– Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
– Strategic Arms Limitation Talks / Treaties (SALT I and II)
– Rapprochement with China (1972)
– Ending US Involvement in Vietnam

Foreign Affairs: Goodbye to Detente (1980)

Today and Friday we will watch ‘The Lives of Others‘

Assignment Task:
Lives of Others – Film Study Assessment Task 2015 S2

Due Wednesday, Week 3 (28 October)

Life in the GDR:

Iron Curtain Kid – variety of aspects of life in E Germany
Living with the Enemy – life under Stasi
Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany’s Secret Police – case study of one person, plus the collapse of communism and the coverup, and investigation into Stasi

CIA Files from Berlin 1946-61
– Intro
– Berlin Airlift
– Berlin Wall