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CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: Cold War Relations 1941-1965 The BIG Question: What caused the Cold War?

CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: Cold War Relations 1941-1965 The BIG Question: What caused the Cold War?

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CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: Cold War Relations 1941-1965 The BIG Question: What caused the Cold War?

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  1. CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: • Cold War Relations 1941-1965 • The BIG Question: • What caused the Cold War? • “Ideological implications - the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbours.” • George Orwell (1903-1950)

  2. When did the Cold War begin? • Russian Civil War • USA/USSR join WW2 • VE Day • Potsdam Conference • VJ Day • Berlin Blockade • 1918 • 1941 • April 1945 • July 1945 • August 1945 • 1948

  3. The BIG Question: What caused the Cold War? OVERVIEW Was it an individual, an event or a theme? To what extent was it a combination of factors?

  4. Lesson I – USA and USSR: Allies by default • Explain why the Americans and Russians were Allies • Evaluate interpretations about the reasons for Allied victory in WW2 Think back to Year 9 the essay you wrote on Significant turning points in the Second World War. What were those events? Why did the USA and USSR join the war? What was the relationship like between these two? (JUST THINK ABOUT THESE – NO ANSWERS FOR THE MOMENT PLEASE Start to have a go at filling in the layers of inference – ask each other for help if needed)

  5. Why was this cartoon produced? What inferences can you make about the cartoon? What can you see in the cartoon? SOURCE A

  6. Explain why the Americans and Russians were Allies • Evaluate interpretations about the reasons for Allied victory in WW2 A brief walk through of the Second World War – which event do you think was the most significant?

  7. Explain why the Americans and Russians were Allies • Evaluate interpretations about the reasons for Allied victory in WW2 Pearl Harbor The Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Britain D-Day Why would the three sides claim that their event was the most significant? What did the Allies have in common?

  8. Explain why the Americans and Russians were Allies • Evaluate interpretations about the reasons for Allied victory in WW2

  9. Investigation Task • Use the sources on your tables – each of them is an interpretation: • You need to decide on the following and answer these questions in your book: • What was the most significant turning point in WW2? • Who wrote the source that you trust most? • Quote from your source • Explain why you trust this more than any other piece of evidence P E E C B A What grade is your statement working at? AIM YOUR HOMEWORK AT IMPROVING YOUR GRADE

  10. HOMEWORK – SOURCE EVALUATION TASK – read through the sources below and answer the questions that accompany them • SOURCE D Extract from a letter from the Soviet ambassador in London, Ivan Maisky, to British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, written in 1943. • Stalingrad is Stalingrad. Stalingrad is one of the greatest landmarks in human history - as an unsurpassed example of heroism and endurance, and as a turning point in the present war. • Indeed, suppose for a moment that Stalingrad in the autumn of 1942 would have fallen: what would have been the consequences? In this case the Germans most probably would have been able to move north up the Volga, as Marshal Stalin indicated in his speech on the 6th November, 1942, with the most appalling consequences for our defence. At the same time if Stalingrad had fallen the Germans would have moved down the Volga, swept through the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, occupied Baku, penetrated Iran, and moved towards the Persian Gulf and India. Simultaneously they would have overrun the whole Middle East and established their rule in Africa. Such would have been the vista of events that would have followed the fall of Stalingrad. SOURCE E An extract from a Tourist Guidebook to Normandy written by Yves Lecouturier (a French Historian) in 1999 These 50 miles of French coastline are marked forever by these first steps towards the liberation of Europe. The cemeteries of the Second World War bear witness to this battle which killed 90,000 Allied and German soldiers. The landing of 6 June 1944 will forever remain the decisive stages in the liberation of Europe and in the outcome of the Second World War. The joy of the Normans to be delivered from the Nazi yoke was immense. Everyone welcomed the liberators with limitless enthusiasm. SOURCE F A Soviet (Russian) historian writing in 1968 There is no doubt that the role of the Soviet Union (the Russians) in defeating the Nazi aggressor has not been fully recognised by the Western Allies. It was the Soviet people who held back the Nazis in Europe for over two years while the Western Allies deliberated and prepared for their invasion. It was the Soviet Union who bled the Germans at Stalingrad and rolled them back towards Berlin. It was the Soviet people who bore the brunt of suffering and sacrificed themselves against fascist tyranny. For too long the West has basked in the glory of June 1944 and forgotten the contribution of our fallen comrades.

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