a situation in which a government or soldiers stop goods or people from entering or leaving a place

an agreement to accept something which is not exactly what you want

The 13 Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis

History

Early causes of tension between the USA and the USSR

The impact of the atomic bomb

Soviet influence over Eastern Europe

The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

The Berlin Crisis, 1948-9

The origins of the Cold War, 1941-58

The growth of communism in China

The ‘loss’ of China and the Cold War

Outbreak of the Korean War

Consequences of the Korean War

The collapse of French Indochina

US involvement in the Vietnam War

Khrushchev and peaceful coexistence

The nuclear arms race

The Space Race

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Hungary and Soviet power in Eastern Europe

The U2 Crisis

Construction of the Berlin Wall

The Cuban Revolution and its consequences

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Initial stages of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Prague Spring

International responses to the Prague Spring

The Brezhnev Doctrine

Tensions between the superpowers by the late-1960s

The reasons for Détente

Détente and SALT 1

In this unit pupils undergo a wider depth 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 international relations in this Cold War period.

Wider Depth Study - Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972

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

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Write the missing keyword. A {{}} is a situation in which a government or soldiers stop goods or people from entering or leaving a place.

Who was President of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

What was the shortened name of the group of advisors who helped JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

What did JFK prefer to call the American blockade of Cuba?

At the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, what American response were hawks in JFK's group of advisors most likely to recommend?

Khrushchev said he would ignore the blockade

USA secretly agreed to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey

Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

Write the missing word. If you {{}} someone, you make them less likely to do something.

What type of American planes detected Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962?

Which country was allied to Cuba in 1962?

Which country had Jupiter missiles based in Turkey (Turkiye)?

The USSR installed nuclear weapons in Cuba secretly.

The USSR installed nuclear weapons in Cuba publicly.

The USSR installed nuclear weapons in Cuba with American agreement.

USSR began installing nuclear missiles on Cuba

The 13 Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lesson outcome

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