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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: Hot war, cold war why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?

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Prior learning

It is helpful if pupils have:

  • compared the nature and impact of conflicts in previous units, as in unit 6 'Islamic civilisations 600-1600', unit 8 'The civil wars', unit 9 'From Glorious Revolution to the '45' and unit 10 'France 1789-94'
  • considered questions of causation and interpretation
  • experience of judging the impact of conflicts upon ordinary individuals, as in unit 2 'Medieval monarchs', unit 8 'The civil wars', unit 9 'From Glorious Revolution to the '45' and unit 15 'Black peoples of America'
  • collaborated together in active learning tasks including drama conventions in order to achieve an agreed outcome

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. What were the main features of twentieth-century warfare?
2. Do the causes of twentieth-century wars have anything in common?
3. Why did the end of the Second World War have the effect of starting another, different world conflict?
4. How did the Cold War end?
5. What do local people remember about the main conflicts?
6. Why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?