Recognise the importance of the Cold War in international relations Explore the Nature of History
Sources for studying the Cold War Written
Visual
Documents held in the Truman Library and Museum; Newspapers – The London Times Digital Archive
Political cartoons, e.g. ‘The Bird Watcher’ (p. 357);
‘Duck and Cover’ and ‘Daisy’ on YouTube
The Cold War
L.O. 3.5: Recognise the importance of the Cold War in international relations in the 20th-century world.
Key Words Cold War Superpowers USSR
Aural
Songs: ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ by Billy Joel;
‘With God on Our Side’ by Bob Dylan
Oral
Interviews with leaders and people who lived through the Cold War
International relations Capitalism Communism
Tactile
Parts of the Berlin Wall;
Museums of the Cold War; Weapons; Spy equipment
Chronological awareness Soviet Union
Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech
1946
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
1948–49
Berlin Wall built US land men on the Moon 1961
1969
collapsed: end of the Cold War
1991
1945
Yalta and Potsdam conferences
1947
Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan –
European Recovery Programme
1950–53 Korean War
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What Was the Cold War?
Define the Cold War
One of the results of World War II was the rise of the two ‘superpowers’, the USA and the USSR (Soviet Union). ● After World War II, the USA and USSR had huge resources of population, raw materials and industry. These countries were called superpowers because now they were much more powerful than Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.