2018 Exam season
Exam report (with student answers)
Useful weblinks
BBC examination support (Bitesize+)
Support videos
Technique guidance
Unit One overview
Break up of the “Grand Alliance”
Ideological differences between the Superpowers
Peace Conferences
Yalta
Potsdam
The Long Telegram
The Novikov Telegram
Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe
Containment
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Cominform and Comecon
Germany – 1948
The formation of NATO
The formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Arms Race / Space Race
Hungarian Uprising
The Berlin Crisis and Wall
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring
Brezhnev Doctrine
Detente- The SALT Agreements, Ostpolitik and the Helsinki Accords
Glasnost and Perestroika
Strategic Defence Initiative and the Summits 1985-1988
Reagan – tear down this wall
MAD and Star Wars
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The collapse of the Soviet Union
Class Materials
