Worksheet 3 from the lesson.
Table to completed about five challenges to detente.
Video - Cold War
episode 17
Good guys bad guys
and accompanying
website. This includes a
transcript of the episode.
This episode deals with the Cold War in Africa and the Middle
East.
The 1983 film about a computer playing student
who almost starts World War III -
War Games The
game played in the film is Galaga. You can play it
here.
See the extract from the bomb episode of the
Young Ones. Play
the
1980s
arcade games and
watch the
Cold War music of the 1980s. Includes rare performance
of Cardiff's finest Along The Lines (ie me) doing the Cold War classic
'Futile Dreams'!
Three part
BBC documentary from 2013 examines the Cold War from a
British cultural perspective. Part 3 is particularly
relevant for this section.
Why and how did Communism collapse collapse in
1989?
Worksheet 7 - The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe 1
explains why.
Worksheet 8 - The collapse of communism in eastern Europe 2
explains how.
Videos of
Gorbachev and Reagan shown in the lesson. Cartoons about
Reagan as seen in the lesson
Additional notes about
Gorbachev and opposing
blog interpretations about Reagan.
Essay by Bradley Lightbody on the role of Gorbachev in the
end of the Cold War.
News
report
video collection from
1990 that shows how events were reported in the USA at the time.
People's
Century
Video -
People Power examines the events of 1989.
Website for the series.
