The PDFs below will give you lots of ideas to get you started
Two Crash Course movies that are helpful:
A great link to the BBC GCSE Bitesize website:Here is some information to help with the base research task:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/
Make a movie
These links will help your research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/endofthecoldwarrev1.shtml
These 2 are useful for life in the USSR in the 1980s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/soviet_end_01.shtml
http://www.slideshare.net/shivrajsinghnegi/soviet-economy-before-and-after-gorbachevThis pdf has lots of relevant information:These extracts contain lots of helpful information about the end of the cold war. The first one is god about the invasion of Afghanistan and the others good on the collapse of the USSR and communism in Eastern Europe:
Some extra reading – for interest generally but also for anyone signed up for History DP. This is an accessible and fascinating read and can be read cover to cover or dipped into for extra depth on individual events:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/endofthecoldwarrev1.shtml
These 2 are useful for life in the USSR in the 1980s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/soviet_end_01.shtml
http://www.slideshare.net/shivrajsinghnegi/soviet-economy-before-and-after-gorbachevThis pdf has lots of relevant information:These extracts contain lots of helpful information about the end of the cold war. The first one is god about the invasion of Afghanistan and the others good on the collapse of the USSR and communism in Eastern Europe:
Some extra reading – for interest generally but also for anyone signed up for History DP. This is an accessible and fascinating read and can be read cover to cover or dipped into for extra depth on individual events:
Here is the task sheet and rubric: End of Cold War Movie Task May 2015.pages