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Year 11

Cold War transformation: why did tensions ease by 1972?

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  • Warfare and conflict

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In this unit, pupils analyse why Cold War tensions had eased by 1972. They learn about the Prague Spring and the USSR's reaction to it, including the Brezhnev Doctrine, before examining the reasons for Détente in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

This unit uses and builds on the previous unit about the Cold War. It develops pupils' knowledge of superpower relations by extending the chronological scope of their understanding to the 1970s. This unit prepares pupils for any future study of international relations.

  1. The Prague Spring
  2. International responses to the Prague Spring
  3. The Brezhnev Doctrine
  4. Tensions between the superpowers by the late-1960s
  5. The reasons for Détente
  6. Détente and SALT 1

  • Pupils know that the world had come close to nuclear war in 1962.
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