Concept: Global Awareness
10A
1. What were the ideologies behind the Cold War?

2. What are the different perspectives about the start of the Cold War?
This text gives lots of information about the start of the cold war including who was to blame and the Yalta and Potsdam conferences:
3. How did the Second World War end?
4. What was the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan?

5. How were the Soviet Satellite States created?
Color a map of Europe in 1945 to show the satellite states of Eastern Europe.
6. Why did Stalin blockade Berlin in 1948?
The document below is more appropriate for EAP students:
7. Assessment 1. Test Essay: Evaluate the claim that the USSR and the USA were equally responsible for the outbreak of the Cold War. Use the events up to 1949 in your answer.

8. Assessment 2.The Korean War 1950 - 1953



9. Turning points in the Cold War 1953 -1980
Assessment 3:
* Berlin Wall 1961 - Research impact of the wall on the lives of the Berliners


GRADE 10: Your assignment is all about reliability of sources. Here are some websites about the Berlin Wall but can you trust them to be telling you the truth??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/berlin_wall
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/index.html
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html
http://trueslant.com/harmonleon/2009/11/09/craziest-berlin-wall-escape-stories/

* Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 - A source investigation.


* Vietnam War 1956 - 1973 - make a poster to show why the Americans were defeated (group work)

The PDFs below will give you lots of ideas to get you started:

Kelly,N. Lacey.G, (2001). Modern World History. Oxford: Heinemann

MacDonald, F. & Staton, R. (1997). The Cold War 945 - 1989. London: Harper Collins
and another one ( for 10B, it's the one I used in class)

A great link to the BBC GCSE Bitesize website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/vietnam/
CANCELLED Case Study CANCELLED
Choose one Cold War event and write a research paper.


11.Assessment 4:The End of the Cold War and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Here is some information to help with the base research task:
Make a movie

Here is the rubric:
These links will help your research:
These 2 are useful for life in the USSR in the 1980s
This pdf has lots of relevant information:
These extracts contain lots of helpful information about the end of the cold war. The first one is god about the invasion of Afghanistan and the others good on the collapse of the USSR and communism in Eastern Europe:
Some extra reading - for interest generally but also for anyone signed up for History DP. This is an accessible and fascinating read and can be read cover to cover or dipped into for extra depth on individual events:

Comments
Sinthya Delgado Castro
Mar 2, 2012
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/03-cold-war-timeline.htm
Marco Carrara
Mar 8, 2012
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/riseandfall/index.htm
Berlin Wall unit