This bundle of lessons provides all the lessons and resources you will need to teach a unit about the origins of the Cold War between 1940 - 1956.

The lessons in this bundle are:

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Cold War, the Grand Alliance and Peace Conferences

Lesson 2: The dropping of the atomic bomb and Long & Novikov Telegrams

Lesson 3: Soviet Satellite States & Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech

Lesson 4: The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

Lesson 5: The creation of Comecon and Cominform

Lesson 6: The Berlin Crisis - The Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift

Lesson 7: The creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Lesson 8: The significance of the Arms Race

Lesson 9: The Hungarian Uprising 1956

Each lesson includes a variety of features and resources such as starter tasks, recap activities, printable activity/question sheets, practice exam questions, exam skills, discussion points, challenge questions as well as fun and highly engaging animated background information to help students understand the focus of the lesson. The lesson is designed to last approximately 90minutes – 2 hours (often longer if you decide to use all the activities and questions).