International School History - European Schools - S7 2hr option
S7 History Last update - 04 October 2011 Official European School History S7 Syllabus: English, French, German
Unit 2 - 1954-1961
Key Questions Lessons Additional materials and external links
What were the main events in world history 1954-61 Timeline of essential information. Quiz on the details of the timeline.
What were the origins of the European Union? Extract from Jones-Nerzic et al with five questions. Juan Carlos Ocaña. brilliant website on the history of the EU. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
The official Europa website provides a detailed illustrated history.
The European Navigator website. A remarkably comprehensive and complicated website.
What was the USA like in the 1950s?
 
What were the causes and consequences of McCarthyism?		 Extract from James Mason Modern World history to GCSE 'Economic Growth McCarthyism'

Ben Walsh GCSE Modern World History 372-374		 Short extract from the People's Century series looking at the US economy in the 1950s. Accompanying website.
 
Video - Cold War episode 6 Reds and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
How far did black American's achieve equality in civil rights 1954-1963? Worksheet and activity based on James Mason Modern World history to GCSE

Ben Walsh GCSE Modern World History 376-381

  
How did the USSR maintain control of Central and Eastern Europe in the period 1953-1961? Overview of Cold War 1950s and De-Stalinization (case-study Poland)

Hungary 1956 worksheet

Ben Walsh GCSE Modern World History Walsh – 400-403

 Central and Eastern European States - 1954-1953 - further details, sources and videos on Poland and Czechoslovakia on this website.

Video about the Hungarian Uprising. The highly reliable Wikipedia, the BBC and John D Clare on the Hungarian Uprising,

Video - Cold War episode 7 After Stalin and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
Why did superpower relations deteriorate in the early 1960s? U2 spy plane and Berlin wall worksheet activity based on James Mason Modern World history to GCSE

 

 John D Clare on U2 and Berlin Wall. Video Days that Shook the World on U2 Spy Plane
Video - Cold War episode 9 Wall and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
B Test 2 - 13th January 2011
Revision list and quiz
 
Revision list and quiz