Welcome to year two, History IB.
Link to the material from year 1.
My dear and respected collegue Stefan Håkansson, who obviously has no life outside school, (except time spent thinking on Panzer, German Beer and Bayern München) and has made full chronological notes on the entire Cold War (they are not complete yet according to the author).
The same authors ideas on Germany during the Cold War.
And on the Middle East during the Cold War.
Paper to help us planning the course.
Cold war part one, until the Yalta Conference.
Early stages 46 - 49 (the time-line).
American Foreign Policy 1949 - 54.
Eastern Europe and the Stalinization.
Hungary 1919 - 1956. (.pdf 3,1 MB)
The end of the fifties and the very beginning of the sixties. Now complete.
Cuban Missile Crisis we used this exercise from activehistory.co.uk. Unfortunately the site is no longer for free.
But that wasn't enough, since you had no homework over the break I decided that we should study some documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Questions to the Vietnam War, could be used as a study guide too.
Links to Documents on the Vietnam War.
Out of these documents I have picked a few, some of these you got on paper last time.
My notes on "The World arround 1960" - mostly on the Sino-Soviet split.
I got my notes for the lecture on wednesday from the bottom off this site. (Dentente and onwards)
My notes on the end of the Dentente. (from Bell, Philip The world since 1945).
The End of the Cold War.
Discussion, the questions your got.
My notes on the end of the Cold war (from Bell, Philip The world since 1945).
The Evaluation you did, the results.
Chronology Mao's life and the most important events.
Great Link to fabulous summaries on Chinese history, click on China and pick area of interest.
Use the revision-notes.co.uk to check last minute knowledge.
Form to use to summarize the Dictators. (.doc)
Form to use to compare and contrast the dictators. (.doc)
An example on how you could summarize Lenin. (Will be complemented during future lessons)
Results and comments to Paper 2 Mock Exam.
Form to use to summarize the Cold War. (.doc)
Link to a good summary of the dictators, thanks Måns!
If you have any last minute questions, post them in the guestbook (found in the menu under Övrigt) and I will answer them as quick as possiible.
You are more than welcome to help your classmates by answering and
On Monday 9th I will be in my office from 13.30 to help you with any last minute questions.
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