School History

OCR GCSE History: International Relations – the changing international order, 1918–2001

This Depth Study module covers the OCR 9-1 GCSE History topic "International Relations - the changing international order, 1918–2001".

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OCR International Relations Assessments 7 MB
OCR International Relations Powerpoint Presentations 102 MB
OCR International Relations Quizzes 39 KB
Scheme of Work: OCR International Relations: the changing international order 1918–2001 1,010 KB

The focus of the period study is on the unfolding narrative of international relations from 1918–2001. Learners will study the substantial developments and issues associated with this period, in order to understand the forces and events which shaped the 20th- and the early 21st-century world and how these forces and events have come to shape our world.

  • Conflict and co-operation 1918–1939
    • The Versailles Peace Settlement; the League of Nations in the 1920s; international agreements in the 1920s (Dawes Plan 1924, Locarno 1925, Kellogg-Briand 1928, Young Plan 1929)
    • Attempts at disarmament.
    • The impact of the worldwide economic depression.
    • Tension in Europe in the 1930s, including the failure of the League of Nations, the policy of Appeasement and outbreak of war in 1939.
  • The Cold War 1945–c.1989
    • Emerging super-power rivalry 1945–1949 
    • Actions of the USSR in Eastern Europe 1945–1948 and response of the US and its allies.
    • Cold War confrontations: Berlin Wall 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
    • Cold War conflicts: Vietnam War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
  • From the end of the Cold War to 9/11
    • Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
    • Consequences of the Soviet war in Afghanistan: the rise of the Taliban and the origins of Al-Qaeda 
    • Al-Qaeda activity from the 1990s culminating in 9/11.

Resource Examples

Additional materials

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L1 Aims Of The Big Three Chart 106 KB
L1 Aims Of The Big Three Chart 82 KB
L1 Aims Of The Big Three Fill In 68 KB
L1 Aims Of The Big Three Fill In 183 KB
L1 Issues For The Victors After Wwi 29 KB
L1 Issues For The Victors After Wwi 215 KB
L1 Treaty Of Versailles 1 MB
L10 Student Fill In Sheet Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan And Soviet Response 186 KB
L10 Truman Doctrine And Marshall Plan 12 MB
L10 Truman Doctrine And Marshall Plan Information Sheet 270 KB
L10 Truman Doctrine And Marshall Plan Information Sheet 96 KB
L11 Berlin Airlift Fact File 17 KB
L11 Berlin Airlift Fact File 221 KB
L11 Cominform And Comecon 37 MB
L11 Cominform And Comecon Information Sheet 99 KB
L12 Source Information For Students 193 KB
L12 Source Information For Students 96 KB
L12 Source Pictures For Students 27 KB
L12 Source Pictures For Students 100 KB
L13 Berlin Wall 34 MB
L13 John F 29 MB
L14 Cuban Missile Crisis 2 MB
L14 The History Of The Cuban Missile Crisis Matthew A 34 MB
L15 How Effectively Did The Usa Contain The Spread Of Communism 245 KB
L15 How Effectively Did The Usa Contain The Spread Of Communism 36 KB
L16 Brezhnev Doctrine 785 KB
L16 Brezhnev Doctrine 2 MB
L16 Czechoslovakia 1968 17 MB
L16 Prague Spring Information Sheet 2 MB
L16 Prague Spring Information Sheet 616 KB
L16 What Was The Prague Spring- 15 MB
L17 Solidarity 24 MB
L17 Solidarity Movement Poland 1989 22 MB
L18 Anti-Vietnam Reasons 118 KB
L18 Anti-Vietnam Reasons 220 KB
L18 Cia Group Information 999 KB
L18 Cia Group Information 426 KB
L18 Failure Of Vietnamisation Fact Sheet 113 KB
L18 How The Vietminh Fought In Vietnam Information 94 KB
L18 How The Vietminh Fought In Vietnam Information 218 KB
L18 Kent State Shootings Lesson Material 144 KB
L18 Kgb Tactics Table 103 KB
L18 Kgb Tactics Table 56 KB
L18 My Lai Source 107 KB
L18 My Lai Source 97 KB
L18 My Lai Timeline Information 95 KB
L18 My Lai Timeline Information 116 KB
L18 Table Questions 257 KB
L18 Table Questions 96 KB
L18 Us And Vietnam 82 MB
L19 Soviet War In Afghanistan 294 KB
L19 Soviet War In Afghanistan 285 KB
L2 League Of Nations 3 MB
L2 League Of Nations Additional Source Homework 399 KB
L2 League Of Nations Additional Source Homework 267 KB
L2 League Of Nations Chart 403 KB
L2 League Of Nations Chart 727 KB
L2 League Task Sheet 43 KB
L2 League Task Sheet 323 KB
L20 Gorbachev And The End Of The Cold War 1 MB
L20 Gorbachev Information 2 MB
L20 Gorbachev Information 778 KB
L21 The Rise Of The Taliban And The Origins Of Al-Qaeda 365 KB
L21 The Rise Of The Taliban And The Origins Of Al-Qaeda 723 KB
L24 Us Withdrawal From Vietnam 190 MB
L3 International Agreements In The 1920s 313 KB
L3 International Agreements In The 1920s 34 KB
L4 Great Depression 770 KB
L5 Appeasement 48 MB
L5 Appeasement Ariana Grande One Last Time Parody Mrbettsclass 1 43 MB
L5 British Declaration Of War Radio Broadcast 3 Sept 1939 1 3 MB
L6 Berlin Crisis 52 MB
L6 Hitler S Foreign Policy 14 MB
L6 Nazi Foreign Policy- Hitler S Foreign Policy Goals 1933 1 12 MB
L6 Nazi Germany Foreign Policy 14 MB
L6 Road To Wwii Worksheet 148 KB
L6 Road To Wwii Worksheet 239 KB
L6 The Berlin Blockade 10m 35 MB
L7 Tehran Yalta And Potsdam Conferences 8 MB
L7 Warsaw Pact 9 MB
L8 Difference Between Nations Statements 105 KB
L8 Difference Between Nations Statements 83 KB
L8 Ideological Differences 50 MB
L8 Ideological Differences Worksheet Low Ability Sheet 252 KB
L9 Group Packs 1 MB
L9 Group Packs 4 MB
L9 Hungarian Uprising 132 MB
L9 Timeline Information 211 KB
L9 Timeline Information 107 KB
L9 Us-Soviet Relations 954 KB
OCR GCSE History Exam Booklets 4 MB