a military alliance of Eastern European countries led by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

something that is quickly put across a road or entrance to prevent people from going past

International responses to the Prague Spring

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

The 13 Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

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

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

Which military alliance was made up of Eastern European communist states?

Which communist countries supported Dubček's reforms during the Prague Spring?

How many troops invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968?

What war was the US fighting at the same time as the invasion of Czechoslovakia?

Yugoslavia was not a member of the Warsaw Pact.

Why did a meeting between Alexander Dubček and the Yugoslav leader Josip Tito increase Soviet concerns about Czechoslovakia?

Warsaw Pact leaders put pressure on Brezhnev to put an end to Dubček's reforms.

Dubček hosted a visit from Tito, leader of Yugoslavia.

Ordinary people built barricades to resist the invasion.

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

Write the missing word. Czechoslovakia was a Soviet {{}} state.

Write the misisng word. In the early 1960s, there were frequent shortages of {{}} goods in Czechoslovakia.

Who became leader of Czechoslovakia in January 1968?

What name is given to the period in early 1968 when Dubček introduced reforms in Czechoslovakia?

Write the missing word. Dubček's reforms were described as '{{}} with a human face'.

beginning of a 10-year plan to make Czechoslovakia democratic

Czechoslovakian exit from the Warsaw Pact

reduction in the powers of the State Security (StB) secret police

Which of the following was not a reform made by Dubček during the Prague Spring?

Starter Quiz