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Year 11

Cold War crises, 1958-70

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  • Warfare and conflict

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In this unit, pupils analyse the key Cold War crises that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war in the 1960s. They learn about the construction of the Berlin Wall and how events in Cuba eventually led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This unit uses and builds on the previous units that pupils have studied about the Cold War. It also builds on their year 7 and 8 knowledge about European colonialism in the Americas which contextualises some of the themes and developments they cover when looking at events in Cuba. This unit prepares pupils for the final unit of key stage 4, where pupils' knowledge of tensions in the early 1960's sets them up to better understand the relaxation of tensions by the 1970s.

  1. Berlin, 1958-61: increased tensions
  2. Berlin, 1961-63: the Berlin Wall
  3. The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs Invasion
  4. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  5. The Prague Spring (1968)
  6. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
  7. Cold War crises, 1958-70

  • Pupils know that the alliance between the USA and the USSR was strained by the early 1950s
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