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
18 Wednesday Nov 2015
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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
17 Tuesday Nov 2015
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(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
13 Friday Nov 2015
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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.
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.
Total /20, therefore roughly three minutes per mark. Half your time should be spent on the last two questions – approx 200 words each.
13 Friday Nov 2015
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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/
12 Thursday Nov 2015
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Only a very quick overview of Vietnam, after the potted history on Tuesday, and Remembrance Day yesterday.
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/
06 Friday Nov 2015
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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?
04 Wednesday Nov 2015
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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
Well done Inca and Henri.
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.
Why did communism collapse seemingly instantaneously in 1989?
Summary from US State Dept
History.com: A good single page with 2:30 video overview
Berlin Wall Memorial (open in Chrome and translate)
28 Wednesday Oct 2015
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Context
Overview of Detente
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
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)
15 Thursday Oct 2015
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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)
14 Wednesday Oct 2015
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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