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CLASSES

We stage The All-Star Alls-Dancing GCSE History Show on Tuesdays, periods III-IV,
and on Wednesdays, period VIII:
starring Heather, Nino, William and Remy. Yaaaaay.


Click here for Term I (Weimar)
Click here for Term IIb (League)fs.






TIME LINE


1940s


1941-1945: The Cold War arose out of the Second World War, when the West found itself, by Hitler's action in attacking his Soviet ally, in awkward alliance with Stalin against the Nazis.
1945: February 4-11-- YALTA Conference. Cold War begins An American newsreel; Monty Python; a modern piece. •
1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war on Hiroshima. This video is not in the best taste, but it's very watchable (excepted from this more sombre documentary). •
1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan •
1945: August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II •
1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech •
1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War: THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (see p. 109) •
1947: June -- MARSHALL PLAN is announced •
1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia •
1948: June 24 -- Berlin Blockade begins. West responds with BERLIN AIRLIFT: contemporary footage: 1, 2, 3, 4. •
1949: July -- NATO ratified •
1949: May 12 -- Berlin Blockade ends •
1949: September -- Under Mao Tse-Tung, COMMUNISTS TAKE CHINA •
1949: September -- NUCLEAR TERROR: Soviets explode first atomic bomb. Here's an early Soviet nuclear test; but here are nuclear tests reimagined as high art. f

1950s


1950: February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt •
1950: June -- KOREAN WAR begins •
1953: June 19 -- Rosenberg executions •
1953: July -- Korean War ends in a draw •
1954: March -- KGB established •
1954 -- CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala •
1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel •
1955: May -- Warsaw Pact formed •
1956: October - November -- Rebellion crushed in HUNGARY. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back, the cowardly bastards •
1957: October 4 -- Sputnik launched into orbit. High point for Soviets in Space Race. •
1958: November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin •
1959: January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

1960s


1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory •
1960: November -- John F. Kennedy elected President •
1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion •
1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military •
1961: August -- BERLIN WALL: Berlin border closed •
1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased •
1962: October -- CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS •
1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified •
1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas •
1964: August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident: America sucked into VIETNAM WAR •
1965: April -- U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism •
1965: July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam •
1968: January -- North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo •
1968: August -- Warsaw Pact takes Prague: CZECHOSLAOVAKIA CRUSHED •
1969: July 20 -- Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1970s


1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia •
1972: July -- SALT I signed •
1973: January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States •
1973: September -- United States helps overthrow Chile government •
1973: October -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid; YOM KIPPUR CRISIS •
1974: August -- President Nixon resigns •
1975: April 17 -- FALL OF SAIGON: North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam •
1979: July -- SALT II signed •
1979: November -- Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis •
1979: December -- SOVIETS INVADE AFGHANISTAN

1980s


1983: -- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative, 'Star Wars' •
1983: October -- U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada •
1985: -- Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua) •
1985: -- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union •
1986: -- Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites •
1986: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe •
1986: November -- Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public •
1987: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty •
1989: January -- Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan •
1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy in the TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE; Poland becomes independent •
1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent •
1989: November -- FALL OF BERLIN WALL •
1989: December -- SOVIET EMPIRE ENDS: Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania

1990s


1990: March -- Lithuania becomes independent •
1990: May 29 -- Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia •
1990: October 3 -- GERMAN REUNIFICATION •
1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends •
1991: August -- COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION. Cold War ends. Western victory. 'The end of history.' (An animated map)












EXAMS

Details of the exam timetable are here
morning of 10 May 2012: Paper 1: 2 hours: choice of 2 questions on the core content
.........and 1 question (choice of 2) on the depth study (Germany 1918-1945)
morning of 18 May 2012: Paper 2: 2 hours: source-based question; no choice
morning of 23 May 2012: Alternative to coursework: 1 hour
...A checklist of topics to study.





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