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3. Theme 3 - Cold War Crises

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  • 3. Theme 3 - Cold War Crises

Theme 3: Cold War crises

This theme involves studying Cold War crises. A crisis is considered to be an event when there was a clear escalation of tension between the superpowers

Students need to be able to examine and compare the causes, impact and significance of two Cold War crises from two different regions.

1. The Berlin Blockade 1948

2. The Berlin Crisis 1958 to 1961

3. The Cuban Missile Crisis

4. The Korean War 1950

5. The Prague Spring, 1968

Cold War crises: Essay writing exercises and essay plans

Cold War Crises: Graded student examples

In addition, other Cold War Crises can be found at the links below:

The Korean War (Asia region):  ATL: Theme 1 - Rivalry, Mistrust and Accord and ATL: Containment under Truman and Eisenhower and ATL: The Korean War and its impact

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Asia region): ATL: Khrushchev and Brezhnev and ATL: Afghanistan 1979 - 1992 

The Suez Crisis (Middle East region): 2. Arab-Israeli conflicts, 1956 to 1973