40 Comprehensive Cold War Lessons – Perfectly suited for I/GCSE History curriculums, yet detailed enough for all schools. Each lesson is fully resourced, featuring a variety of engaging activities, assessments, and adaptive teaching prompts to support diverse learning needs.

1. Cold War Set Up - Timeline and Key Concepts

2. Capitalism v Communism

3. Pre-WW2 Tensions

4. The Grand Alliance

5. Tensions during the Second World War

6. The Conferences

7. The Conferences - Role Play

8. The US Atom Bomb Monopoly

9. Soviet Occupation of Eastern Europe

10. Telegrams and Curtains

11. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

12. Cominform and Comecon

13. Causes of the Berlin Blockade

14. Events of the Berlin Blockade

15. West Germany and NATO

16. Cold War Origins Recap

17. Korean War Causes

18. Korean War Events

19. Korean War Consequences

20. Arms Race

21. Space Race

22. The Hungarian Uprising 1956 - Causes

23. The Hungarian Uprising 1956 - Events

24. The Hungarian Uprising 1956 - Consequences

25. Berlin Wall Crisis 1958 - 1961

26. Bay of Pigs

27. Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 Days

28. Cuban Missile Crisis - Consequences & The Thaw

29. Prague Spring 1968

30. Détente

31. Vietnam Background

32. Vietnam War - Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964

33. Vietnam War - Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue

34. Vietnam War - Vietcong Tactics

35. Vietnam War - US Tactics

36. USA & China

37. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

38. Chernobyl 1968

39. Solidarity

40. Gorbachev & The End of the USSR