the level of wealth, comfort, and access to goods and services available to a person or community

when the military takes over the normal functions of government in an emergency

to make changes in order to improve something

when businesses compete to win customers by providing better products, services, or prices than others

the process of reducing or eliminating military forces and weapons to promote peace and security

Gorbachev's 'new thinking'

History

Causes of tension between the USA and USSR by 1945

The impact of the atomic bomb on US-Soviet relations

Soviet influence over Eastern Europe by 1948

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

The Berlin Crisis (1948)

The Cold War arms race

The Hungarian Uprising (1956)

The origins of the Cold War (1941-58)

Berlin, 1958-61: increased tensions

Berlin, 1961-63: the Berlin Wall

The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

The Prague Spring (1968)

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)

Cold War crises, 1958-70

Détente and SALT I

The Helsinki Accords and SALT II

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Reagan and the 'Second Cold War'

The fall of the Berlin Wall

The collapse of the Soviet Union

The end of the Cold War, 1970-91

In this unit pupils undergo a period study which tells a story about a period that shaped the world we live in today: the Cold War. They look at the key events, developments, people and stories that defined the relationship between the USA and the USSR in this period.

Period study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Who took over the leadership of the USSR after Brezhnev's death in 1982?

What was the name of the Polish trade union led by Lech Wałęsa? 

What is the Russian word for 'openness': the name of the policy that aimed to promote greater transparency and freedom of expression in Soviet society?

independence for European satellite states

human rights (including trade union rights)

President Reagan of the USA recognised that Gorbachev was genuinely open to reform and as a result discussions began to reduce tensions between the superpowers. What did those discussions focus on?

Put these summits involving Reagan and Gorbachev in chronological order.

What was the name of the Soviet leader who signed SALT I with President Nixon in 1972?

Which country had the USSR invaded in December 1979, leading to increasing tensions between the superpowers?

the Soviet diplomatic relationship with China

Part of the reason for Reagan's SDI strategy was the hope that even more investment into military technology would cause what to collapse?

By the 1980s, living {{}} in the USSR and its satellite states were well below those of the USA and its allies.

Put these leaders of the Soviet Union in chronological order of their premierships.

Gorbachev's 'new thinking'

Lesson outcome

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