History at key stage 3 (Year 9)

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

Resources

Resources include:

large wall-mounted world map to be annotated
large wall-mounted class timeline
appropriate visual material, eg photos, posters, cartoons, TV/video
audio cassettes of taped accounts of people who have experienced a war
artefacts to aid role play/displays, eg helmets, gas masks
useful websites, eg http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback(the Chatback Project); learningcurve.pro.gov.uk (Public Record Office); www.iwm.org.uk (Imperial War Museum); www.worldwar1.com/index.html; www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/mainmenu/mainfla.htm; www.lib.byu.edu

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?