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    • Year 7 >
      • 1. Hong Kong - Live it, Love it >
        • 1. What is Hong Kong like?
        • 2. How has Hong Kong changed?
        • 3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
        • 4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
        • 5. Completing the Travel Guide
      • 2. Beliefs and Believers >
        • 1. Ultimate Questions
        • 2. Creation Stories
        • 3. Religion in Hong Kong
        • 4. Religion and the Environment
        • 5. Religion and Evolution
        • 6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
        • 7. End of Unit Assessment
      • 4. Culture and Country >
        • 1. What is Cultural Identity?
        • 2. China's Cultural Identity
        • 3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
        • 4. Japan's Cultural Identity
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
    • Year 8 >
      • 1. Happiness >
        • 1. Happiness and Me
        • 2. Religions and Happiness
        • 3. Happiness Around the World
        • 4. Happiness and Economics
        • 5. Society and Happiness
        • 6. End of Unit Assessment
      • 2. Emergency on Planet Earth >
        • 1. Consumption and the Environment
        • 2. Biomes and the Biosphere
        • 3. Tropical Rainforests
        • 4. Deforestation
        • 5. Conservation
        • 6. Plastic Seas Assessment
      • 3. Life after Death >
        • 1. What happens when we die?
        • 2. Mythology and the Afterlife
        • 3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
        • 4. Religion and the Afterlife
        • 5. Life After Death Assessment
      • 4. Crime & Punishment >
        • 1. What is Crime?
        • 2. Hero or Villain?
        • 3. Jack the Ripper
        • 4. Crime Writing
        • 5. The Geography of Crime
        • 6. Henry VIII Assessment
  • Y9 History
    • 1. Innovation & Industry >
      • 1. Causes
      • 2. Innovations
      • 3. Conditions
      • 4. Changes
      • 5. Sources
      • 6-7. Assessment 1 >
        • The USA
      • 8. Reflection
    • Old History >
      • 1. Hong Kong Story >
        • Further Reading
      • 2. The Slave Trade
      • 3. The First World War
      • 4. The Changing Role of Women
  • Elements
    • Big History Project >
      • 1. What is Big History? >
        • 1.0 - Welcome to Big History
        • 1.1 - Scale
        • 1.2 - Origin Stories
        • 1.3 - What are Disciplines?
        • 1.4 - My Big History
        • Glossary
      • 2. The Big Bang >
        • 2.0 - Changing Understandings
        • 2.1 - The Big Bang
        • 2.2 - Claim Testing
        • Glossary
        • Links & Resources
      • 3. Stars and Elements >
        • 3.0 - How were stars formed?
        • 3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
        • 3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
        • Glossary
      • 4. Our Solar System & Earth >
        • 4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
        • 4.1 - What was young Earth like?
        • 4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
        • 4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
        • Glossary
      • 5. Life >
        • 5.0 - What is Life?
        • 5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
        • 5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
        • 5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
        • Glossary
      • 6. Early Humans >
        • 6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
        • 6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
        • 6.2 - Collective Learning
        • 6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
        • Glossary
      • 7. Agriculture & Civilisation >
        • 7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
        • 7.1 - The First Cities and States
        • 7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
        • Glossary
      • 8. Expansion & Interconnection >
        • 8.0 - Expansion
        • 8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
        • 8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
        • 8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
        • Glossary
      • 9. Acceleration >
        • 9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
        • 9.1 - Acceleration
        • 9.2 - The Anthropocene
        • 9.3 - Changing Economies
        • 9.4 - Industrialism
        • 9.5 - Modern States and Identities
        • 9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
        • 9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
        • Glossary
      • 10. The Future >
        • 10.0 - Looking Back
        • 10.1 - The Biosphere
        • 10.2 - Looking Forward
        • Glossary
      • Assessment Rubrics
      • Key Texts
      • Little Big History
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
      • Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
      • Student Work
    • National History Day
  • IGCSE
    • Germany 1918-45 >
      • 1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
      • 2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
      • 3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
      • 4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
      • 5. Germany during the Second World War
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • China 1900-89 >
      • 1. China 1900-1934
      • 2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
      • 3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
      • 4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
      • 5. China after Mao 1976-1989
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • US Civil Rights 1945-74 >
      • 1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
      • 2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
      • 3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
      • 4. Protest Movements
      • 5. Nixon & Watergate
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • Russia & the USSR 1905-24 >
      • Old Exam Questions
    • Past Papers
  • IBDP
    • Paper 1: The Move to Global War >
      • 1. Japanese Expansion >
        • 1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
        • 2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
        • 3. The Invasion of Manchuria
        • 4. The Sino-Japanese War
        • 5. The Road to War
      • 2. German and Italian Expansion >
        • 1. Causes of Italian Expansion
        • 2. Responses to Italian Expansion
        • 3. Causes of German Expansion
        • 4. Responses to German Expansion
        • 5. The Road to War in Europe
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 2: The Cold War >
      • 1. Introduction to the Cold War
      • 2. Causes of the Cold War
      • 3. The Cold War in Asia
      • 4. Course of the Cold War
      • 5. End of the Cold War
      • 6. The Impact of Leaders
      • 7. The Impact of Crises
      • 8. Impact on Nations
      • Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Glossary
      • Historiography
      • Primary Sources
    • Paper 2: Authoritarian States >
      • 1. Emergence of Authoritarian States >
        • 1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
        • 2. Rise of Hitler
        • 3. Rise of Mao
        • 4. Rise of Castro
        • 5. Rise of Stalin
        • 6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
      • 2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power >
        • 1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
        • 2. Mao's China 1949-1976
        • 3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
        • 4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
      • 3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies >
        • 4. Comparing Domestic Policies
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3: Asia and Oceania >
      • Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912 >
        • 1. The Tongzhi Restoration
        • 2. Impact of the Boxer Rebellion
        • 3. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution
        • 4. The Meiji Restoration
        • 5. Early Japanese Imperialism
        • 6. The Opening of Korea
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: Japan 1912-1990 >
        • 1. Taisho Japan
        • 2. The Rise of Militarism
        • 3. The Move to Global War
        • 4. The Pacific War
        • 5. The US Occupation
        • 6. The 'Economic Miracle'
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: China and Korea 1910-1950 >
        • 1. Rise of National Identity 1911-1927
        • 2. Nationalist Rule in China 1927-1937
        • 3. Rise of Communism in China
        • 4. Japanese Invasion and Civil War 1937-1949
        • 5. Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
        • 6. Taiwan - The Republic of China
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005 >
        • 1. Establishment of the Communist State 1949-1961
        • 2. The Transition to Socialism 1949-1976
        • 3. The Cultural Revolution
        • 4. China's Foreign Affairs 1949-1976
        • 5. China after Mao 1976-2000
        • 6. China's Impact on the Region
        • Exam Questions
        • Further Reading
        • Historiography
        • Primary Sources
    • Internal Assessment >
      • Forming Questions
      • Researching Primary Sources >
        • New York Times Digital Archive
        • SCMP Digital Archive
      • Researching Secondary Sources >
        • Google Scholar
        • History Today
        • HK Public Library e-resources
        • jstor
        • questia
        • Worldcat
      • Source Evaluation
      • Chicago Citation Format
      • IA Help Guide
    • Extended Essay >
      • 1. Title Page
      • 2. Abstract & Contents Page
      • 3. Introduction
      • 4. Body of the Essay
      • 5. Conclusion
      • 6. References, Bibliography & Appendices
    • Mark Schemes
    • Revision
    • Hall of Fame
  • TOK
  • Resources
    • About Us
    • History Trips
    • 5 C's - Skills Framework >
      • Blog Resources
    • ChronoZoom
    • Further Listening
    • Further Reading
    • Further Watching
    • ICT Design Resources
    • individualsandsocieties.com
    • IS History Magazine
    • islandeducators.com
    • jstor.org
    • mrbuddhistory.com
    • questiaschool.com
    • Revision Strategies
  • History Help
    • Blog
    • Historical Content
    • Historical Concepts
    • Historical Skills >
      • Essay Planning >
        • 1. Forming Questions
        • 2. Command Words
        • 3. Topic Analysis
        • 4. Essay Structure
      • Essay Writing >
        • 1. Introductions
        • 2. Conclusions
        • 3. Words and Phrases
        • 4. Quotations
        • 5. Sentences
        • 6. Width and Depth
        • 7. Citing Sources
        • 8. Spelling and Grammar

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COLD WAR

1. What is Capitalism?


Lesson Objectives
To explore the ideology of Capitalism; to understand the history of capitalism and be able to define it as an economic and ideological concept.

Lesson Tasks
  1. Download, read and make notes from the Lesson PowerPoint. Make sure you watch the embedded Crash Course videos.
  2. Complete the question on the last slide: 'Summarise in no more than 50 words, what is Capitalism?'
  3. Read the article, 'How Capitalism Works' and answer these questions. Be ready to discuss your answers next lesson.

​Extension

  1. Download and read the article, 'What is Capitalism?'

2. What is Communism?


Lesson Objectives
To identify and understand the key features of Marxist ideology and summarise learning by creating a revision booklet for Marxism.

Lesson Tasks
  1. Download, read and make notes from this Lesson PowerPoint. 
  2. Read the article: 'The Communist Manifesto' and answer the 21 questions at the end of the article - short answers are acceptable!
  3. Create a ‘Beginners Guide to Marxism’. This guide should be written in an engaging manner making use of analogy, diagrams and metaphor as appropriate. 2 pages of A4 maximum! Cover the following areas:
    1. Who was Karl Marx & How did he criticise Capitalism?
    2. Marx’s Solution – Socialism – What was it?
    3. How did Lenin adapt Marx’s ideas of Socialism?
    4. What other forms of socialism are there? (Maoism, Stalinism, Trotskyism)
    5. How can socialism be criticised? (Defence of Capitalism?)​
Extension
  1. Download and read the article, 'Marx and Engels' by Robert Service.
  2. Watch one of the videos about Marx and Communism.

3. What was the Cold War?


Lesson Objectives
To identify the key features and turning points of the Cold War and understand the nature of the conflict

Lesson Tasks
  1. Download, read and make notes from this Lesson PowerPoint.
  2. Watch the Crash Course Video on the Cold War.
  3. Using the video, the lesson notes and any internet research, make a brief timeline of the Cold War, summarising the key events and turning points. Also try to include the three periods of Cold War, its beginnings, détente, and end of the Cold War.

Extension
  1. Read this introductory chapter from: Young, J., & Kent, J. (2013). International Relations since 1945. Introduction: Understanding the Cold War. pp. 24-33
  2. A further article on causes of Cold War: Paul Dukes. (2001). A Long View of the Cold War. History Today.
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  • Home
  • Y7/8 Humanities
    • Year 7 >
      • 1. Hong Kong - Live it, Love it >
        • 1. What is Hong Kong like?
        • 2. How has Hong Kong changed?
        • 3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
        • 4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
        • 5. Completing the Travel Guide
      • 2. Beliefs and Believers >
        • 1. Ultimate Questions
        • 2. Creation Stories
        • 3. Religion in Hong Kong
        • 4. Religion and the Environment
        • 5. Religion and Evolution
        • 6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
        • 7. End of Unit Assessment
      • 4. Culture and Country >
        • 1. What is Cultural Identity?
        • 2. China's Cultural Identity
        • 3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
        • 4. Japan's Cultural Identity
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
    • Year 8 >
      • 1. Happiness >
        • 1. Happiness and Me
        • 2. Religions and Happiness
        • 3. Happiness Around the World
        • 4. Happiness and Economics
        • 5. Society and Happiness
        • 6. End of Unit Assessment
      • 2. Emergency on Planet Earth >
        • 1. Consumption and the Environment
        • 2. Biomes and the Biosphere
        • 3. Tropical Rainforests
        • 4. Deforestation
        • 5. Conservation
        • 6. Plastic Seas Assessment
      • 3. Life after Death >
        • 1. What happens when we die?
        • 2. Mythology and the Afterlife
        • 3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
        • 4. Religion and the Afterlife
        • 5. Life After Death Assessment
      • 4. Crime & Punishment >
        • 1. What is Crime?
        • 2. Hero or Villain?
        • 3. Jack the Ripper
        • 4. Crime Writing
        • 5. The Geography of Crime
        • 6. Henry VIII Assessment
  • Y9 History
    • 1. Innovation & Industry >
      • 1. Causes
      • 2. Innovations
      • 3. Conditions
      • 4. Changes
      • 5. Sources
      • 6-7. Assessment 1 >
        • The USA
      • 8. Reflection
    • Old History >
      • 1. Hong Kong Story >
        • Further Reading
      • 2. The Slave Trade
      • 3. The First World War
      • 4. The Changing Role of Women
  • Elements
    • Big History Project >
      • 1. What is Big History? >
        • 1.0 - Welcome to Big History
        • 1.1 - Scale
        • 1.2 - Origin Stories
        • 1.3 - What are Disciplines?
        • 1.4 - My Big History
        • Glossary
      • 2. The Big Bang >
        • 2.0 - Changing Understandings
        • 2.1 - The Big Bang
        • 2.2 - Claim Testing
        • Glossary
        • Links & Resources
      • 3. Stars and Elements >
        • 3.0 - How were stars formed?
        • 3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
        • 3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
        • Glossary
      • 4. Our Solar System & Earth >
        • 4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
        • 4.1 - What was young Earth like?
        • 4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
        • 4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
        • Glossary
      • 5. Life >
        • 5.0 - What is Life?
        • 5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
        • 5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
        • 5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
        • Glossary
      • 6. Early Humans >
        • 6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
        • 6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
        • 6.2 - Collective Learning
        • 6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
        • Glossary
      • 7. Agriculture & Civilisation >
        • 7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
        • 7.1 - The First Cities and States
        • 7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
        • Glossary
      • 8. Expansion & Interconnection >
        • 8.0 - Expansion
        • 8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
        • 8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
        • 8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
        • Glossary
      • 9. Acceleration >
        • 9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
        • 9.1 - Acceleration
        • 9.2 - The Anthropocene
        • 9.3 - Changing Economies
        • 9.4 - Industrialism
        • 9.5 - Modern States and Identities
        • 9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
        • 9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
        • Glossary
      • 10. The Future >
        • 10.0 - Looking Back
        • 10.1 - The Biosphere
        • 10.2 - Looking Forward
        • Glossary
      • Assessment Rubrics
      • Key Texts
      • Little Big History
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
      • Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
      • Student Work
    • National History Day
  • IGCSE
    • Germany 1918-45 >
      • 1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
      • 2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
      • 3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
      • 4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
      • 5. Germany during the Second World War
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • China 1900-89 >
      • 1. China 1900-1934
      • 2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
      • 3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
      • 4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
      • 5. China after Mao 1976-1989
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • US Civil Rights 1945-74 >
      • 1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
      • 2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
      • 3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
      • 4. Protest Movements
      • 5. Nixon & Watergate
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • Russia & the USSR 1905-24 >
      • Old Exam Questions
    • Past Papers
  • IBDP
    • Paper 1: The Move to Global War >
      • 1. Japanese Expansion >
        • 1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
        • 2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
        • 3. The Invasion of Manchuria
        • 4. The Sino-Japanese War
        • 5. The Road to War
      • 2. German and Italian Expansion >
        • 1. Causes of Italian Expansion
        • 2. Responses to Italian Expansion
        • 3. Causes of German Expansion
        • 4. Responses to German Expansion
        • 5. The Road to War in Europe
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 2: The Cold War >
      • 1. Introduction to the Cold War
      • 2. Causes of the Cold War
      • 3. The Cold War in Asia
      • 4. Course of the Cold War
      • 5. End of the Cold War
      • 6. The Impact of Leaders
      • 7. The Impact of Crises
      • 8. Impact on Nations
      • Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Glossary
      • Historiography
      • Primary Sources
    • Paper 2: Authoritarian States >
      • 1. Emergence of Authoritarian States >
        • 1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
        • 2. Rise of Hitler
        • 3. Rise of Mao
        • 4. Rise of Castro
        • 5. Rise of Stalin
        • 6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
      • 2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power >
        • 1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
        • 2. Mao's China 1949-1976
        • 3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
        • 4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
      • 3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies >
        • 4. Comparing Domestic Policies
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3: Asia and Oceania >
      • Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912 >
        • 1. The Tongzhi Restoration
        • 2. Impact of the Boxer Rebellion
        • 3. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution
        • 4. The Meiji Restoration
        • 5. Early Japanese Imperialism
        • 6. The Opening of Korea
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: Japan 1912-1990 >
        • 1. Taisho Japan
        • 2. The Rise of Militarism
        • 3. The Move to Global War
        • 4. The Pacific War
        • 5. The US Occupation
        • 6. The 'Economic Miracle'
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: China and Korea 1910-1950 >
        • 1. Rise of National Identity 1911-1927
        • 2. Nationalist Rule in China 1927-1937
        • 3. Rise of Communism in China
        • 4. Japanese Invasion and Civil War 1937-1949
        • 5. Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
        • 6. Taiwan - The Republic of China
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005 >
        • 1. Establishment of the Communist State 1949-1961
        • 2. The Transition to Socialism 1949-1976
        • 3. The Cultural Revolution
        • 4. China's Foreign Affairs 1949-1976
        • 5. China after Mao 1976-2000
        • 6. China's Impact on the Region
        • Exam Questions
        • Further Reading
        • Historiography
        • Primary Sources
    • Internal Assessment >
      • Forming Questions
      • Researching Primary Sources >
        • New York Times Digital Archive
        • SCMP Digital Archive
      • Researching Secondary Sources >
        • Google Scholar
        • History Today
        • HK Public Library e-resources
        • jstor
        • questia
        • Worldcat
      • Source Evaluation
      • Chicago Citation Format
      • IA Help Guide
    • Extended Essay >
      • 1. Title Page
      • 2. Abstract & Contents Page
      • 3. Introduction
      • 4. Body of the Essay
      • 5. Conclusion
      • 6. References, Bibliography & Appendices
    • Mark Schemes
    • Revision
    • Hall of Fame
  • TOK
  • Resources
    • About Us
    • History Trips
    • 5 C's - Skills Framework >
      • Blog Resources
    • ChronoZoom
    • Further Listening
    • Further Reading
    • Further Watching
    • ICT Design Resources
    • individualsandsocieties.com
    • IS History Magazine
    • islandeducators.com
    • jstor.org
    • mrbuddhistory.com
    • questiaschool.com
    • Revision Strategies
  • History Help
    • Blog
    • Historical Content
    • Historical Concepts
    • Historical Skills >
      • Essay Planning >
        • 1. Forming Questions
        • 2. Command Words
        • 3. Topic Analysis
        • 4. Essay Structure
      • Essay Writing >
        • 1. Introductions
        • 2. Conclusions
        • 3. Words and Phrases
        • 4. Quotations
        • 5. Sentences
        • 6. Width and Depth
        • 7. Citing Sources
        • 8. Spelling and Grammar