Gcse history revision book half term 2

Name Form History Class Teacher Classroom

Important information for your History revision file:

Your revision file is your key to exam success. Good preparation throughout the course will save you lots of time when the exams arrive at the end of Year 11. Your exam papers are based around the knowledge you learn, so you need to be able to recall it, but also apply it to answer questions.

You must create a revision folder and complete a fact-file for each topic below to add to the notes given in this book. You should add to your revision folder at least once per week with notes on the work you have completed in class.

Topic for revision notes – all of these topics will be covered in your Completed lessons.

1. Political differences between the USSR and the USA 2. Which leaders and nations met at Yalta? What was agreed at Yalta?

3. Who were the new leaders? Which nations and leaders met at Potsdam? What was agreed and disagreed at Potsdam?

4. Why did the USA drop the atomic bomb? How did the USSR react to this?

5. What was the ‘Iron Curtain’?

6. What was the Truman doctrine?

7. What was Marshall aid?

8. How did Stalin respond to Marshall Aid? (include Cominform and Comecon) 9. What happened in Yugoslavia?

10. Why did Stalin put a blockade on Berlin? Why was their an airlift to Berlin?

11. Why was the Berlin wall built?

12. Why did the west create NATO? How did NATO work?

13. What did the nuclear arms race involve? Who won?

14. What happened in the Korean War, 1950–1953?

15. Why did President Truman need to sack US General MacArthur?

16. What happened when Stalin died? How did Khrushchev aim to ‘deStalinize’ Europe?

17. What was the Warsaw Pact and why was it created?

18. How was an uprising in Hungary in 1956 a threat to the USSR? 19. How did technology develop a weapons and space race during the Cold War? You need to know about: Sputnik 1, ICBMs, Polaris, Gargarin, Apollo A good revision folder has the following: • Use of headings and highlighter pens to identify topics and key points easily.

• Answers to practice questions that have been marked (either by you or your teacher) • Mind maps / diagrams / images / sources that you have analysed • Notes - that are highlighted and summarised versions of more detail in your book. You can use small cards with key points on them. You should be able to condense lots of information; this shows a greater understanding of the topic.

• Your exercise book is the place where new learning takes place in class and your teacher will mark this regularly to monitor your progress; your revision folder is where you practice, improve and consolidate this learning.

• You should use: BBC BITESIZE; BBC HISTORY; SPARTACUS HISTORY; HISTORY ON THE NET; SCHOOL HISTORY; JOHNDCLARE.NET and your textbook to help you create these revision notes.

• You can also buy the AQA GCSE Modern World History Revision Guide, by Ben Walsh, which is tailor-made to help you prepare for your exam. The ISBN for this is 978-1-4718-3175-1

Learn the front page of your exam paper:

The exam paper should always look like this

You need to plan your time smartly. 35 minutes per section.

You will answer question in Topics 3, 4 and 5 only

Practice Describe questions: These are worth 4 marks

1. In February 1945, the leaders of the USA, the USSR and Britain met at Yalta to decide what to do with Germany when the Second World War was over.

Describe what was decided about Germany at the Yalta Conference. 4 marks __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 2. In 1948 Stalin set up the Berlin Blockade which cut off most routes into West Berlin. Describe how the USA, Britain and France delivered supplies to West Berlin during the blockade. 4 marks. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

3. By 1955 two rival alliances existed. Describe the membership and aims of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. 4 marks __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Source Analysis do you agree questions. 6 marks:

Use the past exam paper questions below to practice for the exam Study Source D. An anti-communist cartoon published in France after the Second World War. It shows Stalin, the ruler of the USSR, spreading communism throughout Europe and the World.

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Study Source D. From The Roots of Expansion by the Soviet writer Vadim Nekrasov, published in Moscow in 1984.

The American military intervention in Korea in the summer of 1950 worsened the already tense international relations. The United States had landed troops in South Korea after Japan’s surrender in 1945. Now they were trying to gain control of the whole country.

Source D suggests that the USA was trying to take over North Korea during the Korean War. Do you agree that this was the main reason why the USA took part in the Korean War? Explain your answer by referring to the purpose of the source, as well as using its content and your knowledge.

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10 Mark Essay Questions:

Which was more important in causing the Cold War: • the Soviet expansion in East Europe, 1945–1948 • the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, 1947?

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Please grade each of these 1-4 as above My academic progress towards the target grade (Attainment) My behaviour and attitude in lessons (Attitude) My enjoyment of the subject and the lessons (Application) My understanding of what I need to do to improve (Achievement) My punctuality and Attendance My appearance and equipment for class (Appearance)

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