| S7 History |
Last
update -
17 May 2023 |
Official European
School History S7 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Unit 4 - 1974-1995 |
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Key Questions |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
| What were
the main events in world history 1974-95 |
Timeline of essential
information. |
Quiz
on the details of the timeline. |
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What was detente and what did it achieve? |
Worksheet from the lesson. Walsh
410.GCSE Modern World History
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| What was
Watergate? |
Worksheet from the lesson. Complete
video from
the lesson.
Walsh 394-396.
GCSE Modern World History
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How was detente weakened in the 1970s? |
Worksheet from the lesson.
Table to completed about five challenges to detente.
PowerPoint summary. |
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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.
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| Why was
Afghanistan so important to changes in the Cold War? |
Video - Cold War
episode
20 'Soldiers of God'. |
A
review by an Amazon
customer suggests the series will never be released on DVD in
its original form.
Accompanying
website. This includes a
transcript of the episode.
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What was the Second Cold War? |
Worksheet from the lesson.
Walsh 411.GCSE Modern World History
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Essay by Bradley Lightbody - Why and how did President
Reagan challenge the USSR from 1981 to 1985? from his
Cold War book. |
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What was Solidarity? Did it mark the beginning of
the end of the Cold War? |
Worksheet and
PowerPoint
from the lesson. from lesson.
Videos on
Charter 77 and Solidarity.
Walsh 412-15.GCSE Modern World History
This is an excellent explanation of the significance of
Solidarity. |
See
the dedicated section of
ISH
for an extended multimedia version of the material in the
lesson worksheet worksheet.
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Video - Cold War
episode 19
Freeze
and accompanying
website. This includes a
transcript of the episode.
This episode deals with the Cold War in Africa and the Middle
East.
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| How close
did the world come to nuclear catastrophe in 1983? |
Able Archer
worksheet. |
Excellent documentary
about the nuclear crisis
1983: The Brink Of Apocalypse
Declassified documents in 2013 begin to tell us
more about the significance of Able Archer -
The Guardian.
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| What was
1980s Cold War culture? |
Cold
War culture
information sheet. See the original
www.atomica.co.uk/culture.htm |
See the two big
Nuclear Holocaust movies of the 1980s:
The Day After and
Threads and
the excellent Raymond Briggs animation
When the Wind Blows.
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 doing the Cold War classic
'Futile Dreams'! |
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Why and how did Communist regimes collapse in
central and eastern Europe collapse in 1989? |
Worksheet 1 explains why the revolutions happened and
Worksheet 2 explains how.
Videos of
Gorbachev and Reagan shown in the lesson.
Cartoons about
Reagan as seen in the lesson
Walsh 418.GCSE Modern World History
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PowerPoint overview
of the historiography and a detailed set of
explanatory notes.
News
report
video collection from
1990 that shows how events were reported in the USA at the time.
Additional notes about
Gorbachev and the opposing
blog interpretations about Reagan.
Essay by Bradley Lightbody on the role of Gorbachev in the
end of the Cold War.
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People's
Century
Video -
People Power examines the events of 1989.
Website for the series. |
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Why had communism lasted so long? |
Worksheet - Coercion, persuasion and consent: why did
communism last so long?
PowerPoint slide of persuasion, coercion and consent.
Why did communism last so long?
My interpretation.
1988-89 in
Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Walsh 419-23.GCSE Modern World History |
Fascinating three part
BBC
documentary series on life in the GDR, Czechoslovakia and
Romania.
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How are the events of the Cold war connected? |
As
essay planning and revision
sheet. |
European Baccalaureate
Exam Revision Page |
