History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 18: Hot war, cold war why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?
Section 4: How did the Cold War end?
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Objectives |
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- to describe and begin to analyse why there are different interpretations of historical events
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- Use film or still images to show the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
- Provide pupils with a range of sources about the end of the Cold War, including contemporary accounts and extracts from historians. Pupils could use these to identify and begin to explain the different opinions about why the Cold War ended.
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- identify different opinions of the reasons for the end of the Cold War
- give some of the reasons for these differences
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Points to note |
- The study of the ending of the Cold War could be further developed,
eg by examining events in a particular country such as Romania or the effects of the war in Afghanistan on the USSR.
- This unit could be extended by a study of Mikhail Gorbachev, using unit 22 'The role of the individual'.
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