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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. 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”.
2. 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
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. Czech Wounds Still Open, Communists Face a Ban - NYTimes.com 
6. BBC - Viewfinder: My Lai: "Smoke coming from the muzzle" 
7. The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism 
8. French mock Nicolas Sarkozy, the Beatle who bust the Berlin Wall 
9. 'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit 
10. History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall 
11. 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (VIDEO) 
12. Leaders recall Berlin Wall's fall 
13. George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl in Germany to mark fall of Berlin Wall 
14. A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory? 
15. 'Women's love lives were better in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell' 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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