An comprehensive and engaging 15 page knowledge organiser for GCSE teachers and students studying the Cold War. A simple summary of a complex course.

Each page includes a glossary of key terms and revision questions that students can answer.

This document covers:

1. 1945 The Post WW2 Early Tension Between East and West
2. The Unravelling of the War Time Alliance -1940s
3. The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
4. How Tension Increased Between 1945 and 1948
5. The Arms Race of the 1940s and 1950s
6. The Hungarian Uprising 1956
7. The Cuban Revolution 1959
8. The Second Berlin Crisis 1958-1963
9. The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
10. The Czechoslovakian Crisis 1968-1969
11. Detente 1970-1979
12. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
13. Reagan and the Second Cold War 1980s
14. Gorbachev’s New Thinking 1985+
15. The End of the Soviet Union 1989