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Year 11

Cold War development: how peaceful was 'peaceful co-existence'?

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  • Warfare and conflict

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In this unit, pupils evaluate the extent to which the 1950s was a period of 'peaceful co-existence' in the Cold War. They learn about the nuclear arms race, the Space Race, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the Hungarian Uprising and the U2 spy plane crisis.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge about the early stages of the Cold War that they have built over the previous two key stage 4 units. This unit prepares pupils for the next key stage 4 unit about the Cold War, where their knowledge from this unit contextualises the growing tension that occurred in superpower relations in the early 1960s.

  1. Khrushchev and peaceful coexistence
  2. The nuclear arms race
  3. The Space Race
  4. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
  5. Hungary and Soviet power in Eastern Europe
  6. The U2 Crisis

  • Pupils know that the USA and Soviet Union had both pursued their interests in Asia.
  • Pupils know that tensions between the two superpowers remained high by the beginning of the 1960s.
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