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The Cold War / Korean War


 
 
 
 

Please note: unlike most topics on the site, Cuba and Vietnam are not ones which I have taught recently. This page will develop with fresh resources the next time the IGCSE sourcework topic is focused on these areas.


The Cuban Missile Crisis

Causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis Sourcework Exercise


The Vietnam War

The Causes of the Vietnam War - PowerPoint Presentation

Causes of the Vietnam War - Sourcework

Events of the Vietnam War

Decision Making Game: the Vietnam War
Develop your knowledge and understanding of this key topic with this interactive adventure

Opposition to the Vietnam War - 1966 - Muhammad Ali

Opposition to the Vietnam War 1969 - Woodstock Festival

Opposition to the Vietnam War 1970 - Murder at Kent State

The Vietnam War Fling the Teacher Quiz - 15 Questions


Cuba and Vietnam

Cuba and Vietnam: Splat Game


GCSE / IGCSE History - Main Menu

History in the News for The Cold War / Korean War

1. Did Britain try to assassinate Lenin?  
2. Destroying monuments to Stalin a silly attempt to rewrite history: Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempts to reform the Soviet Union helped to bring about its demise, says he regrets the destruction of monuments to Joseph Stalin which he described as a “silly, anti-historical act”.
3. USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969  
4. Charlie Wilson: Congressman whose support for the mujahideen helped force the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan - Obituaries, News - The Independent  
5. The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism  
6. 'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit  
7. 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (VIDEO)  
8. George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl in Germany to mark fall of Berlin Wall  
9. United Germany might allow another Hitler, Mitterrand told Thatcher  
10. USSR plotted invasion of Manchester  
11. Soviets Had Help during Checkpoint Charlie Standoff  
12. Berlin Airlift remembered, key moment in Cold War  
13. Berlin Wall Monument Commercialism Breeds Controversy  
14. Crowds bid fond farewell to airport that saved Berlin  
15. Million pound "Marshall Aid" banknote on sale for £40,000  
16. Russia's Putin Says No Basis for New Cold War With U.S.  
17. Memories of Containment - Coming to Grips With Russia’s New Nerve  
18. The Windscale Disaster  
19. 'Don't forget Czechoslovakia' - Anniversary of the Prague Spring  
20. Germany marks 20 years as reunified nation Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its reunification.Chancellor Angela Merkel is leading the celebrations, hosted by the northern city of Bremen, where tens of thousands of people have turned out.
21. Mikhail Gorbachev: Russia's elder statesman still at home with power Almost a generation after leaving the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev blames himself – for reforming the Soviet Union so fast that it couldn't survive. Mary Dejevsky meets him
22. Czech Wounds Still Open, Communists Face a Ban - NYTimes.com  
23. BBC - Viewfinder: My Lai: "Smoke coming from the muzzle"  
24. French mock Nicolas Sarkozy, the Beatle who bust the Berlin Wall  
25. History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall  
26. Leaders recall Berlin Wall's fall  
27. A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory?  
28. 'Women's love lives were better in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell'  
29. My Lai massacre: Lt William Calley apologises more than 40 years after Vietnam  
30. Vietnam war photographer Van Es dies in Hong Kong  
31. Poland 'to ban' Che Guevara image  
32. At 50, Cuba's revolution showing its age  
33. JFK's drug addictions almost caused nuclear war  
34. A New Cold War in the Caribbean?  
35. Rosenberg Sons Acknowledge Their Father Was a Spy  
36. For First Time, Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits Spying for Soviets  
37. Secret documents say Markov's killer was given a medal  
38. Germany marks 47th anniversary of Berlin Wall  

 

 

 

 
 
 
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