Homeworks
Homeworks for 2016-2017
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 22nd:
1. You should complete all the tasks on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and prepare for the debate.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 19th:
1. Do the essay on Wellington.
2. Finish the worksheet on the British War Effort and on the Effects of the War.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 13th:
1. Compile a bullet-point list of factors that enabled Britain to win the Peninsular War.
2. What factors enabled Britain to help defeat Napoleon?
3. Begin the worksheet on the Impact of the War that you have been sent.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 11th:
Make notes under the following headings to plan out an essay on the importance of Wellington’s leadership (Farmer p61-63):
Leadership, British Army, Portuguese and Spanish troops and people, Royal Navy, geography, government, economy, coalition support
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 19th:
1. Make sure you fill in the sheet on Nelson and the battles.
2. Do the Source question using the source on p74 of the Pearson book and the advice you have been sent.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 13th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Navy during the French Wars.
2. Plan out the essay on p74 of Pearson (you have the screenshot)
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 12th:
1. Do the sheet up to and including the section on the Battle of Trafalgar.
2. Also watch the following video on the HMS Victory over the course of the next week:
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 5th:
Do the worksheet on the Introduction to the French Wars:
Use the following links to the pages of the Pearson textbook: p62-64
I have sent you the screen shots of these pages by e mail.
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Homework for Monday, May 10th:
1. You should ensure that you have noted the final section of Unit 9 very carefully.
2. You should also read the relevant chapters in Mason on the end of the Cold War.
3. Plan the essay on page 192 of the Phillips text book (there is some advice on page 193). We will go over the technique on Monday and the essay will be due in on Thursday.
4. Make sure you have read and noted the video I mentioned in the previous homework post.
Homework for Thursday, April 28th:
1. Make sure notes have been done on the end of Unit 8 and in answer to the following questions:
Was the fall of the Wall a result or a cause of the end of the Cold War?
How did the Soviet Union come to an end?
Also note the Unit summary.
Watch the Wall Coming Down video before Thursday - click on the link
Homework for Monday, April 25th:
Produce a handout and presentation for the rest of the class (10 copies) on one East European country, tracing its history between 1945-1989. Use the information in the text book (p171-176) and your own research.
Include: leadership, key events and changes, problems, how communism fell.
Hungary: Pedro
East Germany: Pelayo and Manuel
Czechoslovakia: Elena
Romania: Volga
Bulgaria: Leo
Poland: LucasYugoslavia: Pablo and Pepe
Homework for Monday, April 18th:
Make sure you have finished the worksheet on Reagan and on the problems faced by the Soviet Union.
Homework for Monday, April 11th:
Make sure you have finished noting the détente chapter and revise for the test essay on détente on Monday.
Homework for Easter:
1. Complete the Detente worksheet and notes. Here is the link to the Kissinger article.
2. Revision: use the revision pack to begin your revision of the topics we have studied to date.
Homework for Thursday, March 10th:
1. Essays due in on the Sino-Soviet dispute.
2. Read p136-137 and compile a timeline of Détente.
3. What were the causes of Détente? (p137-141) Make notes under the following headings:
Listen to the Witness podcast on Nixon's visit to China
Also watch the Cold War series on China
Read chapter 5 of Mason and make any additional notes on Sino-Soviet and Sino-US relations.
Do the essay: How far was the Sino-Soviet split of the late 1960s the result of ideological differences between the two communist powers? (see guidance p134-135)
Homework for Thursday, March 3rd:
Use the link to the worksheet and pages 129-135 in Phillips to help you make notes on:
"Why did a rapprochement take place between China and the USA after 1969 and what did it achieve?"
What did Sino-Soviet relations achieve between 1970 and 1976?
What were the implications of the Sino-US rapprochement for US-Soviet relations?
Homework for Monday, Feb 29th:
1. Read and note techniques in the sample essay on the Arms Race.
2. Do the essay plan on the Sino-Soviet Split (see the link in the previous homework note for Feb, 25th). Use pages 126-127 of the text book to help.
3. Make notes on the Ussuri River dispute from pages 128-129 and if you can go on to the next section of the worksheet (see link below) and fill in the section "Why did a rapprochement take place between China and the
USA after 1969 and what did it achieve?" using pages 129-132.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 25th:
If you were away make sure you have copied up the notes we did in class.
Use the textbook, pages 123-129 of Phillips to do the first page of the worksheet Why did the Sino-Soviet Split occur after 1953? Also add any other reasons to the list of factors that you can find.
Homework for Monday, Feb 22nd:
1. Do the worksheet and introductory notes on Sino-Soviet relations, including reading and noting the article on China and the Korean War.
2. Makes sure you have read Mason up to and including chapter 4.
3. Read the article on Kennedy's presidency.
Here is the link to the remainder of the MAD video
Homework for Thursday, Feb 11th:
1. Make sure the Arms race essay is finished - remember it should be hand-written.
Watch and make notes on the Cuba video in the Cold War series.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 4th:
1. Plan out the essay: "To what extent did the nuclear arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949-63?" (use the information in Unit 5 and pages 111-112 and Chapter 3 of Mason to help you).
2. Be prepared to discuss the articles in Thursday's lesson.
All other notes should be up to date.
Homework for Monday, Feb 1st:
1. Make sure all the Cuban work is finished, including the effects and the reading and noting of the articles.
2. Note the final section in the Arms Race chapter in Phillips (this should be done by Thursday) on "What impact did the arms race have on the nature of the Cold War conflict between 1949 and 1963?"
3. Read chapter 3 of Mason (by Thursday) p24-33.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 28th:
Make sure all the Cuban notes are finished (see below) and that you have read and noted the articles on Cuba.
Kennedy, Khrushchev and Cuba.
Nuclear Nightmare.
Please also fill in the exam feedback form on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Jan 25th:
Answer the following questions using the text book and the chapters you have been given:
a) Background on US-Cuban relations
b) Biographies on the leading players: Castro, Kennedy and Khrushchev
c) Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
By Thursday:
d) The course of the crisis: options, events.
e) The results of the crisis
Homework for Monday, Jan 18th:
Ensure you have finished noting the chapter on Kennedy.
Also ensure you have read the Mason book up to page 42.
Do the arms race sheets and living graph.
Homework for Monday, Dec 14th:
1. Make the notes on Kennedy's foreign policy and the achievements of the Thaw and its limitations using pages 84-86 of Phillips.
2. There will be a test essay on Peaceful Co-existence on Thursday.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 10th:
1. Finish the note taking on the chapter on Eisenhower's foreign policy.
2. Read the articles you have been given on the Cold War.
3. Do the essay plan on the reasons for Peaceful Co-existence.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 3rd:
1. Make sure you have continued and completed your notes on the Containment in Practice chapter up to and including the section on the Third World.
Homework for Monday, Nov 30th:
1. Make sure you do your research on Berlin, Poland and Hungary ready for the presentations on Monday.
Include the background, the events and the effects.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 19th:
1. Read the end of Unit 3 summary.
2. Complete the worksheet on the impact of the Death of Stalin and on Origins of Peaceful Co-existence using pages 73-79 of the textbook
3, Also read the chapter you have been given on the United States and the Beginning of the Cold War.
Homework for Monday, Nov 16th:
1. Complete the Korean War historiography sheets.
2. Do the reading of the chapters and sheets you have been given. Make notes on anything new.
Homework for Friday, Nov 13th:
Do the essay: "How far do you accept the view that it was American foreign policy that "crystallised the Cold War"?
Homework for Monday, Nov 2nd:
1. You should have completed all the work on the Cold War in Asia and the Korean War already.
2. Read pages 47-57 of the Cold War textbook and do the following:
a) Read the sheet on the different viewpoints about the causes of the Cold War.
b) Fill in the sheet on How far was the USA responsible for the Cold War?
c) Fill in the sheet on What were Stalin's motives for Soviet expansion?
I will put some resources on the Moodle for further listening/reading.
Homework for Friday, Oct 23rd:
Read the two articles on the Cold War that you have been given.
Homework for Monday, Oct 19th:
1. Do the questions on "Why the Cold War conflict extended to the Far East" and the questions on the Korean War.
Homework for Wednesday. Oct 14th:
1. Finish the remainder of the questions on the worksheet "The impact of Cold War tensions on Germany and Europe."
2. Do the essay on ideology and the causes of the Cold War (see the guide sheet on the Moodle).
Change of hand-in date: Wed, Oct 14th (I will collect it in Mr Walter's lesson)
Homework for Monday, Oct 5th:
1. Do the activities on the Czech coup.
2. Do the first five questions on the worksheet "The impact of Cold War tensions on Germany and Europe."
Homework for Thursday, Oct 1st:
Make sure you have finished the worksheet up to and including Stage 5 and have read pages 1-13 of Mason, making brief notes where necessary.
Homework for Monday, Sept 28th:
1. Make sure you have read pages 9-11 of the black and white handout you have been given.
2. Do the worksheet on How did the Cold War develop in Europe between 1945 and 1950. Do it up to and including Stage 5: The Czechoslovakia Crisis (use the booklet and pages 23-30 in the textbook).
3. Fill in the summary sheet on How did the Cold War develop.
Homework for Monday, Sept 21st:
Prepare a detailed plan for the essay: To what extent had relations between the superpowers broken down by August 1945?
Do profiles on Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
Homework for Monday, Sept 14th:
1. Fill in the sheets on the wartime conferences, up to and including the section on the agreements and disagreements at Yalta. Use your own research, this presentation and pages 8-10 & 23 of the textbook
2. Read the article on the Katyn Massacre.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 10th:
1. What was the Comintern and why and how did it cause friction between the East and West? (Phillips - the red textbook page 4)
2. Read pages 6-8 of Phillips and make thorough notes on the causes of tension between the USSR and the capitalist world.
3. Outline the strains that occurred in the Grand Alliance through to 1944.
Homework for Monday, Sept 7th:
1. Read the introduction vi-viii
2. Copy out the timeline pages viii-x
3. Unit 1 pages 2-5. Fill in the sheet on Capitalism v Communism.
Homework for Wednesday, May 6th:
1. Make sure you have finished reading Mason and the Afterthoughts on page 194 of Phillips.
2. Do the essay on page 192 of Phillips, but make sure you take into account the guidance given on page 193.
Homework for Tuesday, April 28th:
Finish making notes on Why the Cold War came to an end, using the guide sheets you have been given and pages 185-191 of Walsh. Also finish reading Mason.
Homework for Tuesday, April 21st:
1. Please come and collect some hand outs from me on the End of the Cold War.
2. Read and note pages 173-178 of the text book.
3. Read and note chapter 7 and the conclusion of Mason
4. Do the following essay:
How far do you agree with the view that the Cold War came to an end because popular protest in the Communist Bloc during the 1980s weakened the Soviet hold of Eastern Europe?
See guidance on page 179 of the text book.
Homework for Tuesday, April 14th:
1. Make sure you have completed the worksheet on Reagan and the Reagan Doctrine, Star Wars and the factors that weakened the hold of the USSR over Eastern Europe in the early 1980s (up to page 166 in the text book).
2. Do the sheets on Why the Soviet leadership was so ineffective, Gorbachev's New Political Thinking and the End of the Brezhnev Doctrine p167-170.
3. Produce a handout for the rest of the class (15 copies) on one East European country, tracing its history between 1945-1989. Use the information in the text book (p171-176) and your own research.
Include: leadership, key events and changes, problems, how communism fell.
Hungary: Iñigo and Alvaro
East Germany: Joaquin and Eduardo
Czechoslovakia: Estefania, Carla and Sandra
Romania: Nicholas
Bulgaria: Paloma and Lara
Poland: Victoria, Marina and Maria
4. Revision. Use the Revision package to ensure you have a thorough knowledge of all the topics we have covered. Make notes, draw mind-maps, charts and write essay plans.
Homework for Tuesday, March 24th:
1. Do the timeline on pages 157-158.
2. You should complete the worksheets on Reagan's militarised counter-revolution and on the problems facing the Soviet Union in the 1980s (use pages 158-166).
Homework for Tuesday, March 17th:
1. Read and note Phillips page 153-156 and the chapter on the End of Détente to make a detailed list (with supporting evidence) to explain why Détente came to an end.
2. Plan your essay on Détente: How far did Détente achieve a relaxation in superpower tension 1969-1979? (this will be done in class on Wednesday).
Homework for Tuesday, March 10th:
1. Make notes on SALT I and SALT II and what the agreements achieved from pages 144-147 of Phillips and pages 299-306 of the chapter "The High Tide of Détente".
2. Note what was agreed at the Helsinki Accords of 1975 and what effects they had (including inadvertent effects) using Phillips p147 and High Tide of Détente p306-310.
3. Make notes on the key question: To what extent was Détente successful method of conducting Cold War conflict?
Pages p148-151 of Phillips.
4. Read the Détente 1969-79 chapter pages 40-51.
Homework for Tuesday, March 3rd:
1. Read pages 137-141 of the textbook and add any extra details to the notes we made on the causes of Détente.
2. Make notes on the Henry Kissinger introduction (p141-142) and detailed notes on the article you have been given on "Kissinger and the Cold War" - you need to be ready to discuss this next lesson.
3. Explain the impact of the 1973 oil crisis and Soviet economic problems on superpower relations (p142-144 of text book).
4. Read and note page 288-299 of the chapter "The High Tide of Détente" adding in extra detail to your existing notes on the causes of Détente - you should already have the basic points done from what we did in class.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 25th:
1. Make sure you watch the last section of the video on China (see link below) and also listen to the podcast on when Nixon met Mao (scroll down the page until you get to Feb 21st episode).
2. You should also have read and noted chapter 5 from Mason (pages 42-50).
3. New topic - "Détente". Copy out the introduction about what the unit is about and the key questions on page 136 of the text book. Then draw out a timeline covering the détente period using the information on pages 136-137.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 24th:
1. Do the essay: To what extent was the deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations in the years 1958-1969 due to personal rivalries? (handwritten in a maximum of 1hr 30 mins).
2. Do an essay plan for the following essay: Why did the US pursue closer relations with the People’s Republic of China and what concrete achievements emerged from this new relationship in the period 1969-1976?
3. If you missed the video on China and its relations with USSR and USA, follow this link to the You Tube Channel.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 10th:
Make detailed notes on the following using Phillips p 129-135 and the sources on these pages.
1. Explain why there was a rapprochement between China and the USA after 1969.
2.
a) What did Sino-American relations achieve between 1970 and 1976 (for China and the USA)?
b) Was anything of substance achieved by the Sino-American rapprochement?
3. What were the implications of the Sino-US rapprochement for US-Soviet relations?
4. Read and note Mason Chapter 5 "China between the superpowers, 1949-80" p42-49 and the articles and chapters you have been given on the Sino-Soviet split.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 3rd:
1. Complete the work set on the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty, the Korean War, The Taiwan Straits Crisis and on the Sino-Soviet Split.
2. Read and note Mason Chapter 2 on Communist China and the Cold War in Asia
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 27th:
1. Read and note/highlight the article on the Test Ban Treaty.
2. Essay (hand-written please):
The nuclear arms race fundamentally destabilised superpower relations in the period 1949-63. How far do you agree with this view?
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 20th:
1. Ensure you have made all the notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis up to and including the effects of the crisis on superpower relations (page 111 of Phillips).
2. Read and note the articles I have given you on Cuba and Kennedy.
3. Write notes on the following using Phillips p111-112.
What impact did the arms race have on the nature of the Cold War conflict between 1949 and 1963?
4. Do a detailed essay plan on the following title:
To what extent did the nuclear arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949-63?
Homework for holidays:
1. Ensure you have finished the timeline on the developments in the arms race (see Phillips p96-97 and 101-104)
2. Make sure you have filled in the sheet on the Cuban Missile Crisis and completed all the notes up to and including p110.
3. Revision: use the checklist, revision package and essay guides to help you revise for the January exam. Also ensure you have read the relevant sections from both text books: Phillips and Mason. Also consult websites like the Casa Historia site, the Historical Association (use the log-on and password you have been given).
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 16th:
1. Make sure you have finished the timeline and notes on why the arms race developed (p97-101 of Phillips).
2. Complete your notes on How did the arms race develop between 1949 and 1963 (p101-104). Also complete the graph on the advances made by the USA and USSR during this period.
3. Read the background sheet on Cuba, the section on Cuba in the Kennedy chapter and pages 105-111 to answer the questions on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 9th:
1. Do the notes on the Kennedy chapter up to page 116.
2. Essay: In the year 1953-60 President Eisenhower's Cold War diplomacy was based on confrontation rather than co-existence. How far do you agree?
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 2nd:
1. Write up three case studies on the following events in the 1950s-60s:
a) The Hungarian Rising, 1956
b) Events in Poland in 1956 (Poznan Revolt)
c) The Berlin Crisis 1958-62
Use pages 88-92 of Phillips as a starter, but also look at Mason pages 24-32 and do your own research about each event.
Your case study should include:
* The background to the event.
* What happened.
* The consequences: immediate and longer term and their effect on superpower relations.
2. Complete the two essay plans that are in the package you have been given.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 25th:
1. Complete the notes on Kennedy's foreign policy using Phillips.
2. Read and make notes on the article on the Khrushchev Years.
3. Read and make notes on the chapter on Eisenhower.
Here is a link to an interesting article from the Guardian on whether or not a new Cold War is in the making.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 18th:
1. Finish the timeline on page 72-73 of Phillips.
2. Complete the worksheet on the impact of Stalin's death on international relations.
3. Do the worksheet on the immediate impact of Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Read the article entitled: "From Yalta to Pusan" and make notes on any bits that are new or any good quotes.
2. Read the extract from the chapter on "How far was the US responsible for the Cold War'"
3. Use the sources and your own knowledge to do the essay:
"How far do you accept the view that it was American foreign policy that "crystallised the Cold War"?
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 4th:
1. Read and note the articles and chapters you have been given about the Cold War.
2. Do the worksheet on How far was the USA responsible for the Cold War.
3. Do the source exercise on how historians differ in their views of US responsibility for the development of the Cold War?
4. Fill in the sheet on Stalin's motives for Soviet expansion.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 21st:
1. Finish the notes on the Missile Gap, Red Scare and McCarthyism and NSC-68.
2. Read and note the remainder of the chapter you were given on USA in Asia.
3. Now read the remainder of Unit 2 of Phillips and the chapter on the War in Korea and use this to make notes on the following aspects:
Homework for Wednesday, Oct 15th:
Using page 34-36 of Phillips:
1. Complete the tasks on the sequence of events in the Chinese Civil War and the reasons why the Communists won.
2. Make notes on what happened in Korea and Vietnam at the end of the Second World War.
Then read and note the first section of the chapter you have been given on the Cold War up to the section on Asia.
Homework for Tuesday, October 7th:
1. Complete the notes and activities on how the Cold War developed.
2. Do the essay: "How far do you agree with the view that the origins of the Cold War in 1945 and 1946 owed much to ideological differences and little to personalities and conflicting national interests?"Homework for Wednesday, Sept 10th:
Select a series of images for a Cold War collage to illustrate the different aspects of the Cold War 1945-1991.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 23rd:
Essay: "To what extent had relations between the superpowers broken down by the end of the Yalta Conference?"
Use your own notes, Phillips, Mason and your own research to answer this essay.
Remember the two key aspects are a strong line of argument and analysis combined with depth of knowledge.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 17th:
1. Fill in the details about the first four wartime conferences from the Atlantic Charter to the Fourth Moscow Conference.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 16th:
1. Finish the notes on the difference between communism and capitalism using the subtitles: ideology, economic differences, politics and international relations.
2. What was the Comintern and why and how did it cause friction between the East and West? (Phillips page 4)
3. Read pages 6-8 of Phillips and make thorough notes on the causes of tension between the USSR and the capitalist world.
4. Read and note pages 1-2 of Mason (little black book).
5. Now begin adding dates and their significance to the Cold War timeline on Google Drive. I have added some events and dates, you should try and explain their importance/significance.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 22nd:
1. You should complete all the tasks on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and prepare for the debate.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 19th:
1. Do the essay on Wellington.
2. Finish the worksheet on the British War Effort and on the Effects of the War.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 13th:
1. Compile a bullet-point list of factors that enabled Britain to win the Peninsular War.
2. What factors enabled Britain to help defeat Napoleon?
3. Begin the worksheet on the Impact of the War that you have been sent.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 11th:
- Make notes on the invasion of France and the Hundred Days
- The Battle of Waterloo (events, tactics and importance)
- Read the articles on Waterloo on the Moodle.
- What was the situation in 1815?
- Copy out your own version of the timeline on p60 of Farmer.
Make notes under the following headings to plan out an essay on the importance of Wellington’s leadership (Farmer p61-63):
Leadership, British Army, Portuguese and Spanish troops and people, Royal Navy, geography, government, economy, coalition support
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 19th:
1. Make sure you fill in the sheet on Nelson and the battles.
2. Do the Source question using the source on p74 of the Pearson book and the advice you have been sent.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 13th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Navy during the French Wars.
2. Plan out the essay on p74 of Pearson (you have the screenshot)
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 12th:
1. Do the sheet up to and including the section on the Battle of Trafalgar.
2. Also watch the following video on the HMS Victory over the course of the next week:
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 5th:
Do the worksheet on the Introduction to the French Wars:
Use the following links to the pages of the Pearson textbook: p62-64
I have sent you the screen shots of these pages by e mail.
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Homework for Monday, May 10th:
1. You should ensure that you have noted the final section of Unit 9 very carefully.
2. You should also read the relevant chapters in Mason on the end of the Cold War.
3. Plan the essay on page 192 of the Phillips text book (there is some advice on page 193). We will go over the technique on Monday and the essay will be due in on Thursday.
4. Make sure you have read and noted the video I mentioned in the previous homework post.
Homework for Thursday, April 28th:
1. Make sure notes have been done on the end of Unit 8 and in answer to the following questions:
Was the fall of the Wall a result or a cause of the end of the Cold War?
How did the Soviet Union come to an end?
Also note the Unit summary.
Watch the Wall Coming Down video before Thursday - click on the link
Homework for Monday, April 25th:
Produce a handout and presentation for the rest of the class (10 copies) on one East European country, tracing its history between 1945-1989. Use the information in the text book (p171-176) and your own research.
Include: leadership, key events and changes, problems, how communism fell.
Hungary: Pedro
East Germany: Pelayo and Manuel
Czechoslovakia: Elena
Romania: Volga
Bulgaria: Leo
Poland: LucasYugoslavia: Pablo and Pepe
Homework for Monday, April 18th:
Make sure you have finished the worksheet on Reagan and on the problems faced by the Soviet Union.
Homework for Monday, April 11th:
Make sure you have finished noting the détente chapter and revise for the test essay on détente on Monday.
Homework for Easter:
1. Complete the Detente worksheet and notes. Here is the link to the Kissinger article.
2. Revision: use the revision pack to begin your revision of the topics we have studied to date.
Homework for Thursday, March 10th:
1. Essays due in on the Sino-Soviet dispute.
2. Read p136-137 and compile a timeline of Détente.
3. What were the causes of Détente? (p137-141) Make notes under the following headings:
- The Fear of War
- The needs of the USSR
- The needs of the USA
- European needs and Ostpolitik
Listen to the Witness podcast on Nixon's visit to China
Also watch the Cold War series on China
Read chapter 5 of Mason and make any additional notes on Sino-Soviet and Sino-US relations.
Do the essay: How far was the Sino-Soviet split of the late 1960s the result of ideological differences between the two communist powers? (see guidance p134-135)
Homework for Thursday, March 3rd:
Use the link to the worksheet and pages 129-135 in Phillips to help you make notes on:
"Why did a rapprochement take place between China and the USA after 1969 and what did it achieve?"
What did Sino-Soviet relations achieve between 1970 and 1976?
What were the implications of the Sino-US rapprochement for US-Soviet relations?
Homework for Monday, Feb 29th:
1. Read and note techniques in the sample essay on the Arms Race.
2. Do the essay plan on the Sino-Soviet Split (see the link in the previous homework note for Feb, 25th). Use pages 126-127 of the text book to help.
3. Make notes on the Ussuri River dispute from pages 128-129 and if you can go on to the next section of the worksheet (see link below) and fill in the section "Why did a rapprochement take place between China and the
USA after 1969 and what did it achieve?" using pages 129-132.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 25th:
If you were away make sure you have copied up the notes we did in class.
Use the textbook, pages 123-129 of Phillips to do the first page of the worksheet Why did the Sino-Soviet Split occur after 1953? Also add any other reasons to the list of factors that you can find.
Homework for Monday, Feb 22nd:
1. Do the worksheet and introductory notes on Sino-Soviet relations, including reading and noting the article on China and the Korean War.
2. Makes sure you have read Mason up to and including chapter 4.
3. Read the article on Kennedy's presidency.
Here is the link to the remainder of the MAD video
Homework for Thursday, Feb 11th:
1. Make sure the Arms race essay is finished - remember it should be hand-written.
Watch and make notes on the Cuba video in the Cold War series.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 4th:
1. Plan out the essay: "To what extent did the nuclear arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949-63?" (use the information in Unit 5 and pages 111-112 and Chapter 3 of Mason to help you).
2. Be prepared to discuss the articles in Thursday's lesson.
All other notes should be up to date.
Homework for Monday, Feb 1st:
1. Make sure all the Cuban work is finished, including the effects and the reading and noting of the articles.
2. Note the final section in the Arms Race chapter in Phillips (this should be done by Thursday) on "What impact did the arms race have on the nature of the Cold War conflict between 1949 and 1963?"
3. Read chapter 3 of Mason (by Thursday) p24-33.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 28th:
Make sure all the Cuban notes are finished (see below) and that you have read and noted the articles on Cuba.
Kennedy, Khrushchev and Cuba.
Nuclear Nightmare.
Please also fill in the exam feedback form on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Jan 25th:
Answer the following questions using the text book and the chapters you have been given:
a) Background on US-Cuban relations
b) Biographies on the leading players: Castro, Kennedy and Khrushchev
c) Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
By Thursday:
d) The course of the crisis: options, events.
e) The results of the crisis
Homework for Monday, Jan 18th:
Ensure you have finished noting the chapter on Kennedy.
Also ensure you have read the Mason book up to page 42.
Do the arms race sheets and living graph.
Homework for Monday, Dec 14th:
1. Make the notes on Kennedy's foreign policy and the achievements of the Thaw and its limitations using pages 84-86 of Phillips.
2. There will be a test essay on Peaceful Co-existence on Thursday.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 10th:
1. Finish the note taking on the chapter on Eisenhower's foreign policy.
2. Read the articles you have been given on the Cold War.
3. Do the essay plan on the reasons for Peaceful Co-existence.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 3rd:
1. Make sure you have continued and completed your notes on the Containment in Practice chapter up to and including the section on the Third World.
Homework for Monday, Nov 30th:
1. Make sure you do your research on Berlin, Poland and Hungary ready for the presentations on Monday.
Include the background, the events and the effects.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 19th:
1. Read the end of Unit 3 summary.
2. Complete the worksheet on the impact of the Death of Stalin and on Origins of Peaceful Co-existence using pages 73-79 of the textbook
3, Also read the chapter you have been given on the United States and the Beginning of the Cold War.
Homework for Monday, Nov 16th:
1. Complete the Korean War historiography sheets.
2. Do the reading of the chapters and sheets you have been given. Make notes on anything new.
Homework for Friday, Nov 13th:
Do the essay: "How far do you accept the view that it was American foreign policy that "crystallised the Cold War"?
Homework for Monday, Nov 2nd:
1. You should have completed all the work on the Cold War in Asia and the Korean War already.
2. Read pages 47-57 of the Cold War textbook and do the following:
a) Read the sheet on the different viewpoints about the causes of the Cold War.
b) Fill in the sheet on How far was the USA responsible for the Cold War?
c) Fill in the sheet on What were Stalin's motives for Soviet expansion?
I will put some resources on the Moodle for further listening/reading.
Homework for Friday, Oct 23rd:
Read the two articles on the Cold War that you have been given.
Homework for Monday, Oct 19th:
1. Do the questions on "Why the Cold War conflict extended to the Far East" and the questions on the Korean War.
Homework for Wednesday. Oct 14th:
1. Finish the remainder of the questions on the worksheet "The impact of Cold War tensions on Germany and Europe."
2. Do the essay on ideology and the causes of the Cold War (see the guide sheet on the Moodle).
Change of hand-in date: Wed, Oct 14th (I will collect it in Mr Walter's lesson)
Homework for Monday, Oct 5th:
1. Do the activities on the Czech coup.
2. Do the first five questions on the worksheet "The impact of Cold War tensions on Germany and Europe."
Homework for Thursday, Oct 1st:
Make sure you have finished the worksheet up to and including Stage 5 and have read pages 1-13 of Mason, making brief notes where necessary.
Homework for Monday, Sept 28th:
1. Make sure you have read pages 9-11 of the black and white handout you have been given.
2. Do the worksheet on How did the Cold War develop in Europe between 1945 and 1950. Do it up to and including Stage 5: The Czechoslovakia Crisis (use the booklet and pages 23-30 in the textbook).
3. Fill in the summary sheet on How did the Cold War develop.
Homework for Monday, Sept 21st:
Prepare a detailed plan for the essay: To what extent had relations between the superpowers broken down by August 1945?
Do profiles on Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
Homework for Monday, Sept 14th:
1. Fill in the sheets on the wartime conferences, up to and including the section on the agreements and disagreements at Yalta. Use your own research, this presentation and pages 8-10 & 23 of the textbook
2. Read the article on the Katyn Massacre.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 10th:
1. What was the Comintern and why and how did it cause friction between the East and West? (Phillips - the red textbook page 4)
2. Read pages 6-8 of Phillips and make thorough notes on the causes of tension between the USSR and the capitalist world.
3. Outline the strains that occurred in the Grand Alliance through to 1944.
Homework for Monday, Sept 7th:
1. Read the introduction vi-viii
2. Copy out the timeline pages viii-x
3. Unit 1 pages 2-5. Fill in the sheet on Capitalism v Communism.
Homework for Wednesday, May 6th:
1. Make sure you have finished reading Mason and the Afterthoughts on page 194 of Phillips.
2. Do the essay on page 192 of Phillips, but make sure you take into account the guidance given on page 193.
Homework for Tuesday, April 28th:
Finish making notes on Why the Cold War came to an end, using the guide sheets you have been given and pages 185-191 of Walsh. Also finish reading Mason.
Homework for Tuesday, April 21st:
1. Please come and collect some hand outs from me on the End of the Cold War.
2. Read and note pages 173-178 of the text book.
3. Read and note chapter 7 and the conclusion of Mason
4. Do the following essay:
How far do you agree with the view that the Cold War came to an end because popular protest in the Communist Bloc during the 1980s weakened the Soviet hold of Eastern Europe?
See guidance on page 179 of the text book.
Homework for Tuesday, April 14th:
1. Make sure you have completed the worksheet on Reagan and the Reagan Doctrine, Star Wars and the factors that weakened the hold of the USSR over Eastern Europe in the early 1980s (up to page 166 in the text book).
2. Do the sheets on Why the Soviet leadership was so ineffective, Gorbachev's New Political Thinking and the End of the Brezhnev Doctrine p167-170.
3. Produce a handout for the rest of the class (15 copies) on one East European country, tracing its history between 1945-1989. Use the information in the text book (p171-176) and your own research.
Include: leadership, key events and changes, problems, how communism fell.
Hungary: Iñigo and Alvaro
East Germany: Joaquin and Eduardo
Czechoslovakia: Estefania, Carla and Sandra
Romania: Nicholas
Bulgaria: Paloma and Lara
Poland: Victoria, Marina and Maria
4. Revision. Use the Revision package to ensure you have a thorough knowledge of all the topics we have covered. Make notes, draw mind-maps, charts and write essay plans.
Homework for Tuesday, March 24th:
1. Do the timeline on pages 157-158.
2. You should complete the worksheets on Reagan's militarised counter-revolution and on the problems facing the Soviet Union in the 1980s (use pages 158-166).
Homework for Tuesday, March 17th:
1. Read and note Phillips page 153-156 and the chapter on the End of Détente to make a detailed list (with supporting evidence) to explain why Détente came to an end.
2. Plan your essay on Détente: How far did Détente achieve a relaxation in superpower tension 1969-1979? (this will be done in class on Wednesday).
Homework for Tuesday, March 10th:
1. Make notes on SALT I and SALT II and what the agreements achieved from pages 144-147 of Phillips and pages 299-306 of the chapter "The High Tide of Détente".
2. Note what was agreed at the Helsinki Accords of 1975 and what effects they had (including inadvertent effects) using Phillips p147 and High Tide of Détente p306-310.
3. Make notes on the key question: To what extent was Détente successful method of conducting Cold War conflict?
Pages p148-151 of Phillips.
4. Read the Détente 1969-79 chapter pages 40-51.
Homework for Tuesday, March 3rd:
1. Read pages 137-141 of the textbook and add any extra details to the notes we made on the causes of Détente.
2. Make notes on the Henry Kissinger introduction (p141-142) and detailed notes on the article you have been given on "Kissinger and the Cold War" - you need to be ready to discuss this next lesson.
3. Explain the impact of the 1973 oil crisis and Soviet economic problems on superpower relations (p142-144 of text book).
4. Read and note page 288-299 of the chapter "The High Tide of Détente" adding in extra detail to your existing notes on the causes of Détente - you should already have the basic points done from what we did in class.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 25th:
1. Make sure you watch the last section of the video on China (see link below) and also listen to the podcast on when Nixon met Mao (scroll down the page until you get to Feb 21st episode).
2. You should also have read and noted chapter 5 from Mason (pages 42-50).
3. New topic - "Détente". Copy out the introduction about what the unit is about and the key questions on page 136 of the text book. Then draw out a timeline covering the détente period using the information on pages 136-137.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 24th:
1. Do the essay: To what extent was the deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations in the years 1958-1969 due to personal rivalries? (handwritten in a maximum of 1hr 30 mins).
2. Do an essay plan for the following essay: Why did the US pursue closer relations with the People’s Republic of China and what concrete achievements emerged from this new relationship in the period 1969-1976?
3. If you missed the video on China and its relations with USSR and USA, follow this link to the You Tube Channel.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 10th:
Make detailed notes on the following using Phillips p 129-135 and the sources on these pages.
1. Explain why there was a rapprochement between China and the USA after 1969.
2.
a) What did Sino-American relations achieve between 1970 and 1976 (for China and the USA)?
b) Was anything of substance achieved by the Sino-American rapprochement?
3. What were the implications of the Sino-US rapprochement for US-Soviet relations?
4. Read and note Mason Chapter 5 "China between the superpowers, 1949-80" p42-49 and the articles and chapters you have been given on the Sino-Soviet split.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 3rd:
1. Complete the work set on the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty, the Korean War, The Taiwan Straits Crisis and on the Sino-Soviet Split.
2. Read and note Mason Chapter 2 on Communist China and the Cold War in Asia
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 27th:
1. Read and note/highlight the article on the Test Ban Treaty.
2. Essay (hand-written please):
The nuclear arms race fundamentally destabilised superpower relations in the period 1949-63. How far do you agree with this view?
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 20th:
1. Ensure you have made all the notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis up to and including the effects of the crisis on superpower relations (page 111 of Phillips).
2. Read and note the articles I have given you on Cuba and Kennedy.
3. Write notes on the following using Phillips p111-112.
What impact did the arms race have on the nature of the Cold War conflict between 1949 and 1963?
4. Do a detailed essay plan on the following title:
To what extent did the nuclear arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949-63?
Homework for holidays:
1. Ensure you have finished the timeline on the developments in the arms race (see Phillips p96-97 and 101-104)
2. Make sure you have filled in the sheet on the Cuban Missile Crisis and completed all the notes up to and including p110.
3. Revision: use the checklist, revision package and essay guides to help you revise for the January exam. Also ensure you have read the relevant sections from both text books: Phillips and Mason. Also consult websites like the Casa Historia site, the Historical Association (use the log-on and password you have been given).
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 16th:
1. Make sure you have finished the timeline and notes on why the arms race developed (p97-101 of Phillips).
2. Complete your notes on How did the arms race develop between 1949 and 1963 (p101-104). Also complete the graph on the advances made by the USA and USSR during this period.
3. Read the background sheet on Cuba, the section on Cuba in the Kennedy chapter and pages 105-111 to answer the questions on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 9th:
1. Do the notes on the Kennedy chapter up to page 116.
2. Essay: In the year 1953-60 President Eisenhower's Cold War diplomacy was based on confrontation rather than co-existence. How far do you agree?
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 2nd:
1. Write up three case studies on the following events in the 1950s-60s:
a) The Hungarian Rising, 1956
b) Events in Poland in 1956 (Poznan Revolt)
c) The Berlin Crisis 1958-62
Use pages 88-92 of Phillips as a starter, but also look at Mason pages 24-32 and do your own research about each event.
Your case study should include:
* The background to the event.
* What happened.
* The consequences: immediate and longer term and their effect on superpower relations.
2. Complete the two essay plans that are in the package you have been given.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 25th:
1. Complete the notes on Kennedy's foreign policy using Phillips.
2. Read and make notes on the article on the Khrushchev Years.
3. Read and make notes on the chapter on Eisenhower.
Here is a link to an interesting article from the Guardian on whether or not a new Cold War is in the making.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 18th:
1. Finish the timeline on page 72-73 of Phillips.
2. Complete the worksheet on the impact of Stalin's death on international relations.
3. Do the worksheet on the immediate impact of Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Read the article entitled: "From Yalta to Pusan" and make notes on any bits that are new or any good quotes.
2. Read the extract from the chapter on "How far was the US responsible for the Cold War'"
3. Use the sources and your own knowledge to do the essay:
"How far do you accept the view that it was American foreign policy that "crystallised the Cold War"?
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 4th:
1. Read and note the articles and chapters you have been given about the Cold War.
2. Do the worksheet on How far was the USA responsible for the Cold War.
3. Do the source exercise on how historians differ in their views of US responsibility for the development of the Cold War?
4. Fill in the sheet on Stalin's motives for Soviet expansion.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 21st:
1. Finish the notes on the Missile Gap, Red Scare and McCarthyism and NSC-68.
2. Read and note the remainder of the chapter you were given on USA in Asia.
3. Now read the remainder of Unit 2 of Phillips and the chapter on the War in Korea and use this to make notes on the following aspects:
- Causes
- Overview
- US Policy
- Was global rivalry a cause of the Korean War?
- The role of the US, USSR, Japan and the UN.
Homework for Wednesday, Oct 15th:
Using page 34-36 of Phillips:
1. Complete the tasks on the sequence of events in the Chinese Civil War and the reasons why the Communists won.
2. Make notes on what happened in Korea and Vietnam at the end of the Second World War.
Then read and note the first section of the chapter you have been given on the Cold War up to the section on Asia.
Homework for Tuesday, October 7th:
1. Complete the notes and activities on how the Cold War developed.
2. Do the essay: "How far do you agree with the view that the origins of the Cold War in 1945 and 1946 owed much to ideological differences and little to personalities and conflicting national interests?"Homework for Wednesday, Sept 10th:
Select a series of images for a Cold War collage to illustrate the different aspects of the Cold War 1945-1991.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 23rd:
Essay: "To what extent had relations between the superpowers broken down by the end of the Yalta Conference?"
Use your own notes, Phillips, Mason and your own research to answer this essay.
Remember the two key aspects are a strong line of argument and analysis combined with depth of knowledge.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 17th:
1. Fill in the details about the first four wartime conferences from the Atlantic Charter to the Fourth Moscow Conference.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 16th:
1. Finish the notes on the difference between communism and capitalism using the subtitles: ideology, economic differences, politics and international relations.
2. What was the Comintern and why and how did it cause friction between the East and West? (Phillips page 4)
3. Read pages 6-8 of Phillips and make thorough notes on the causes of tension between the USSR and the capitalist world.
4. Read and note pages 1-2 of Mason (little black book).
5. Now begin adding dates and their significance to the Cold War timeline on Google Drive. I have added some events and dates, you should try and explain their importance/significance.
