International School History - European Schools - S7 2hr option
S7 History Last update - 28 September 2011 Official European School History S7 Syllabus: English, French, German
Unit 3 - 1962-1973
Key Questions Lessons Additional materials and external links
What were the main events in world history 1962-1973 Timeline of essential information. Quiz on the details of the timeline.
How close did the world come to nuclear war during the Cuban missiles crisis? Cuban Missiles Crisis worksheet from James Mason Modern World history to GCSE John D Clare on Cuba. Video Fog of War
Video - Cold War episode 10 Cuba and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
Who killed President Kennedy? Worksheet John Simkin on the various theories concerning the assassination.
The Zapruder film hoax website and film.

BBC video on the assassination. The notorious video The Men Who Killed Kennedy - 9 episode documentary originally aired in 1989. Includes the final parts from 2004 that were subsequently banned.

What did Kennedy achieve? Walsh 390-91 GCSE Modern World History  
How did the civil rights movement develop in the 1960s? Walsh 380-383 GCSE Modern World History  
How did the USA get involved in Vietnam? Worksheet James Mason Modern World history to GCSE and Walsh 353-355 GCSE Modern World History Video on the photography of the Vietnam War: The Camera at War
What was the Vietnam War like and why did the USA lose? Walsh 355-359.GCSE Modern World History

Steve Phillips on why the USA failed to win. Edited extract from Kevin Jackson's 2002 article for the Independent on Sunday about the attraction of war movies.
Scene from Apocalypse Now

  Video Fog of War
 Hollywood on war: an analysis by John Pilger
Video - Cold War episode 11 Vietnam and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
What was the 1960s women's movement? Walsh 384-386.GCSE Modern World History
Worksheet		 Video history of the women's movement. Friedan The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 "The Problem that Has No Name".
Video - Cold War episode 13 Make Love not War and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode. This episode deals with the wider context of the 1960s.
What was the 'Prague Spring'? Worksheet from the lesson.

Walsh 404-406.GCSE Modern World History
Extract from James Mason Modern World History

Video - Prague Spring extract from Cold War series.
Extended extract from Cannon et al. IB 20th century world history course companion in text form and on this website.
Video - Cold War episode 14 Red Spring and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
B Test 3
Revision quiz
 
Revision quiz
 
 
Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution? Worksheet from the lesson. Video from the People's Century series. Website for the video. Morning Sun, a film and website about the Cultural Revolution.
Video - Cold War episode 15 China and accompanying website. This includes a transcript of the episode.
What was it like to be a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution? Extract from Jung Chang's Wild Swans with discussion questions.
Wild Swans - the story of one girl's experience of growing up during the Cultural Revolution. The only book I have ever ripped in half.
What were the consequences of the Cultural Revolution? Worksheet from the lesson.  Edited extract from Michael Lynch's The People Republic of China since 1949.  

 
 

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