KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on all of the historical knowledge that pupils have built across key stages 1 to 4 up to this point. It makes particular use of any units in which pupils constructed or deconstructed historical narratives. This unit prepares pupils for their final key stage 4 unit where their knowledge of broad period events is complemented by a specific depth study.

1. Causes of tension between the USA and USSR by 1945
2. The impact of the atomic bomb on US-Soviet relations
3. Soviet influence over Eastern Europe by 1948
4. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
5. The Berlin Crisis (1948)
6. The Cold War arms race
7. The Hungarian Uprising (1956)
8. The origins of the Cold War (1941-58)
9. Berlin, 1958-61: increased tensions
10. Berlin, 1961-63: the Berlin Wall
11. The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs Invasion
12. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
13. The Prague Spring (1968)
14. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
15. Cold War crises, 1958-70
16. Détente and SALT I
17. The Helsinki Accords and SALT II
18. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
19. Reagan and the 'Second Cold War'
20. Gorbachev's 'new thinking'
21. The fall of the Berlin Wall
22. The collapse of the Soviet Union
23. The end of the Cold War, 1970-91

• A thorough grounding in substantive concepts commonly found across key stages 1, 2 and 3. For example, 'communism', 'ideology, 'international relations', 'conflict' and 'tension'.'.