Year 11 @ IvoHistory
In Year 11 pupils who have chosen to study History at GCSE will study the following:
Autumn Term: Outline Study: Superpower Relations, 1945 - 1990 - then - Depth Study B: Conflict in Vietnam, c1963 - 1975
Spring Term: Depth Study B: Conflict in Vietnam, c1963 - 1975 continued - then - Revision
Summer Term: Revision continues until Year 11 leave
Superpower Relations, 1945 - 1990
Through the content specified below, candidates should develop an overview of the following:
The impact of the breakdown of wartime alliances
The struggle for worldwide supremacy
Detente and the new order.
Specified content
Origins of the Cold War and the partition of Germany.
The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and the Soviet response.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the arms race.
The nature of Cold War: Berlin; Hungary; Cuba.
Detente: Cuba to Afghanistan, and the roles of Reagan and Gorbachev.
Links to websites (please note that some of these links lead to PDF files or PowerPoint presentations):
| Origins of the Cold War | Superpower ideologies |
| Cold War ideologies | Cold War atomic bomb |
| The Space/Arms Race | The Berlin Blockade |
| Cold War match-up quiz | Online revision lesson (recommended) |
| Other Cold War links | Cold War online revision (recommended) |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis interactive storyboard (recommended) | Cold War - History Learning Site |
| Superpower Relations interactive diagrams (scroll down the page to the links on the right) | |
| Cold War - Learning Curve exhibition covering a variety of aspects of this period of history | |
| Cold War revision | Cold War timeline |
Conflict in Vietnam, c1963 - 1975
This study will focus on: reasons for US intervention in Vietnam; why the USA was defeated; the impact of the war on the USA and Indo-China.
Reasons for US involvement in Vietnam.
The nature of the conflict: guerrilla warfare; Operation Rolling Thunder; the Tet offensive.
The impact of the war on the peoples of Vietnam and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.
Reasons for the US defeat.
The reunification of Vietnam.
Consequences for the USA of its failure in Vietnam.
Remember to use the resources above and on
the Year 10 page.
Visit the
Revision page.
The
Cultural Revolution - reasons for the launch of the revolution
and its key features (PowerPoint slide show)
Russia revision (use
the Russian Revolution and Lenin's Russia sections)
Cold War revision
GCSE Paper 1
Essay plan framework
Essay
Mark
scheme
GCSE Paper 2 - templates and guidance for source questions
on Russia or Vietnam:
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4 - instructions
Question 4 - template
Past papers
2003 GCSE Paper 1 Questions and
Mark Schemes
2003 GCSE Paper 2 Sources, Questions and
Mark Schemes
2004 GCSE Paper 1 Questions and
Mark Schemes
2004 GCSE Paper 2 Sources, Questions and
Mark Schemes
2005 GCSE Paper 1 Questions and
Mark Schemes
2005 GCSE Paper 2 Sources, Questions and
Mark Schemes
2006 GCSE Paper 1 Questions
2006 GCSE Paper 2 Sources and Questions
2007 GCSE Paper 1 Questions
2007 GCSE Paper 2 Sources and Questions
PODCASTS - answers to GCSE questions:
China
Why did many Chinese people objected to the crowning of Yuan
Shi Kai as Emperor in 1916?
What is meant by the term
"Warlord"?
Why was the May 4th
Movement important to the development of the CCP?
In what ways did the CCP gain
the support of the Chinese people in the 1920s?
Why did relations
between the CCP and GMD change between 1923 and 1934?
Superpowers
Why had Cold
War developed by 1949?
You can listen to an mp3 audio file on your computer by clicking on a link above. Alternatively, to save the file on to your computer to either listen to it later or to copy/synchronise it onto an mp3 player or iPod, you should right click the link above, choose the "Save Target As" option and save the file on to your computer.