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Unit 2 - 1954-1963 -
Peaceful Coexistence? |
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Key Questions |
Lessons |
Additional materials
and external links |
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What were the main events in
world history 1954-63 |
Timeline of essential information.
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Quiz on the details of the timeline. |
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What were the origins of the
European Union? |
PowerPoint introduction to the origins of the European
Union.
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2015 film by the European Council tells the
story of the EU through the lives of the founding
fathers. 30 minutes. |
Worksheet 1 from Jones-Nerzic et al with five
questions.
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The
outstanding
European Navigator website is a comprehensive,
multilingual history of the EU.
The official
Europa website provides a detailed
illustrated history. |
Juan
Carlos Ocaña's brilliant
website on the history of the EU. Also available in
Spanish and Portuguese.
Textbook
extract on the origins of the EU. Tony Judt extract on
the
origins of the EU and
why Britain didn't join.
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How did the USSR maintain
control of Central and Eastern Europe in the period
1953-1961? |
Hungary 1956
worksheet 2 Ben
Walsh
GCSE Modern World History Walsh – 400-403 Edited
video extract from Cold War about the Hungarian Uprising as
seen in the lesson. BBC Schools History
File
video on the Hungarian Uprising. |
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Prezi presentation of central and eastern Europe in
the 1950s |
Edited
video extract from Cold War about De-Stalinization in Poland.
De-Stalinization case-study Poland.
Series of
lectures by historian Jamie Shea on the NATO website. This
one deals with the 1950s and draws links between many of the
events you have been studying.
The highly reliable
Wikipedia, the
BBC and
John D Clare on the Hungarian Uprising,
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What was the USA like in the
1950s?
What were the causes and consequences of McCarthyism? |
Short extract from the
People's Century series looking at the US economy in the
1950s. Accompanying
website.
Rock and roll music
activity
McCarthyism - Short edited video extract from Cold War
Women in the 1950s,
two short films illustrate the status of women at the
time.
Short video on
1950s
youth culture.
Worksheet 3 from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE 'Economic Growth
McCarthyism'
Ben Walsh
GCSE Modern World History 372-374
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Boom
time
video from the People's Century series. Complete
episode of extract seen in lesson. |
For American cultural history in the 1950s
see these
links. A good insight into 1950s mores is through these
government information films.
History of
1950s cinema.
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How far did black American's
achieve equality in civil rights 1954-1963? |
Worksheet 4 and activity based on James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE
Video from Eyes of the Prize history of the Civil Rights
movement dealing with the murder of Emmett Till.
Short extract from the
People's Century series looking at US civil rights in
the 1950s. Accompanying
website.
Ben Walsh
GCSE Modern World History 376-381 |
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Civil
Rights
video from the People's Century series. Complete
episode of extract seen in lesson.
Accompanying
website. |
See
Spartacus Education or
Wikipedia for encyclopaedic information on any event or
character in the Civil Rights movement.
Take a 'literacy
test' used in Alabama in the 1960s to determine the
right to vote.
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What were the causes and
consequences of the Great Leap Forward in China? |
Worksheet 5 from the lesson.
PowerPoint from the lesson.
Video
extract from the
People's Century series.
PBS documentary
video dealing with the period 1958-62. (25 minutes)
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People's Century documentary
video on China.
Accompanying
website. |
Video Mao - Hero or villain?
Excellent
BBC slideshow on art and propaganda of Communist China.
Mao's Great Famine - Recent French-Belgium
documentary
film based on Frank Dikotter's book. The brilliant
Wikipedia has an excellent summary of the main causes and
consequences of the Great Leap Forward and up to date figures on
the famine debate. |
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Why did superpower relations
deteriorate in the early 1960s? |
Worksheet 6 from the lessons. U2 spy plane and Berlin
wall based on James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE
Short
video extract from Cold War series on Space Race and U2
crisis.
Short edited
video extract from the Cold war series looking at the
Berlin Wall and PowerPoint from the lesson.
Walsh 342-46
GCSE Modern World History |
John D Clare on
U2 and
Berlin Wall. The arms race and space race
worksheet.
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Three part
BBC documentary from 2013 examines the Cold War
from a British cultural perspective. |
Four
part BBC documentary on the
Space Race.
BBC Schools - History File
documentary series on the Cold War - episode on the
Arms Race
BBC illustrated
article on the
history of the U2 spy plane.
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How close did the world come to
nuclear war during the Cuban missiles crisis? |
Worksheet 7 Cuban Missiles Crisis from James Mason
Modern World history to GCSE
Walsh 347-52
GCSE Modern World History |
Information
sheet on the Cuban Revolution.
Video - Mark Steel lecture on
Che Guevara. Video -
Castro: Hero or Villain.
Video -
One Minute to Midnight Textbook accounts by Bradley
Lightbody, Oliver
Edwards and Mike
Sewell
John D Clare on
Cuba.
Video
Fog of War
PBS documentary from 2012, a dramatic reconstruction
about the nuclear submarine that nearly started World War
III.
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Who killed President Kennedy?
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Worksheet 8
10 reasons why the official account of the Kennedy
Assassination must be wrong.
John McAdam's anti-conspiracy website
Oliver Stone's
JFK and How accurate is it? See Alex von Tunzelmann's
review.
Secret service stand down
video
The
Zapruder hoax
website and
film.
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John Simkin on the various
theories concerning the assassination.
BBC
video on the assassination.
Red Dwarf's explanation of the assassination. (comedy) |
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B Test 2 -
Week beginning Monday 14th
December 2015 |
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Revision list and
quiz
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Revision list and
quiz
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