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Cold War revision exercise from this site
Extensive revision lesson providing revision diagrams to complete together with revision quizzes.

Cold War revision document from this site
Print off a four-page revision document to use to make your own notes and test yourself with practice questions and the interactive diagrams.

Cold War Revision from JohnDClare.net
Excellent revision notes in collapsible format -  revise key points and click to reveal essential notes.  More here.

The Cold War from BBC Bitesize
Updated - quality information and exercises from GCSE Bitesize - revision and multi-choice questions. Work through them all!

Cold War revision from The History Channel
Detailed revision quizzes linked to a 'key facts' section - multiple choice, word match, missing words and others.

Cold War from Learning Curve (Public Record Office)
Superb online materials with GCSE-type practice questions relating to all aspects of Superpower Relations.

The Cold War from HistoryLearningSite
Extensive information to help you revise and check your facts - very useful for details about specific events.

What happened at Yalta & Potsdam?
Information about the two wartime conferences between the 'allies'.

Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid
What were they and what impact did they have?

Berlin Blockade
What happened and why did it happen?  How dangerous?

Hungarian Uprising
What happened in Hungary in 1956 - what were the consequences?

U2 crisis
Why was this incident so significant?  What happened?

Berlin Wall
Why was the Berlin Wall built?  What did it come to symbolise?

Cuban Missile Crisis
The hottest that the Cold War got - what happened?

Change in relations since 1945
1945-62 - How and why did relations change?

What was the era of detente?
What caused relations to improve?  Was a peaceful end inevitable?

The end of the Cold war.
How and why did the Cold War end in 1989?


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Yalta and Potsdam
Can you match them up first time?

U2 incident
Match up the information.

Cuban Missiles Crisis
Match up the dates and facts correctly.

End of the Cold War
Are you able to get this correct?


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