Pearson Baccalaureate: History The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries 2e bundle

2.1
Listen to Truman's annoucement after the Hiroshima bombing

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3.1
Listen to Truman ask for support from Congress for the Truman doctrine

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3.2
Watch a documentary about the first crises in the Cold War up to 1946

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3.3
Watch a lecture on the foundation of NATO

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4.1
Watch an interview with the historian John Lewis Gaddis

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5.1
Learn about the Red Scare

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Watch a documentary about the Korean War

6.1
Listen to the photographer Eddie Adams talk about his famous photo from the Saigon shooting in 1968, Vietnam

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6.2
Learn more about the Vietnam War

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7.1
Watch a lecture about the possibilities offered by peaceful co-existence in the 1950s

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8.1
Watch a documentary about the building of the Berlin Wall

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8.2
Watch John F. Kennedy's speech at the Berlin Wall

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A selection of various documents relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis

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A selection of various documents relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis

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9.3
Watch a documentary about the Cuban Missile Crisis

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10.1
Read about the Sino-Soviet split

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Read about the relationship between Mao and Khrushchev

10.3
Watch footage from the Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969

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11.1
Read about the Taiwan Crisis in 1958

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11.2
View an interactive timeline on US-Sino relations

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Read an overview of détente

12.2
Watch a lecture that provides an analysis of détente

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12.3
Watch a documentary about détente

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13.1
Read about the Hungarian Uprising

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13.2
Watch a short video about the invasion of Prague in 1968

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13.3
Watch a video about Poland and solidarity

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14.1
A 'doomsday' clock indicating how close the world has been to nuclear war since 1947

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Read an analysis of the American-Soviet arms race

14.3
Watch a documentary about the impact of the arms race

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15.1
Watch a documentary about the Berlin Wall coming down

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15.2
Watch a documentary about the end of the Cold War

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15.3
Listen to Bush and Gorbachev declaring the end of the Cold War

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Learn about the history of the United Nations

16.2
Watch a documentary about the history and functions of the United Nations

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16.3
Read the Covenant of the League of Nations

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16.4
Read the Charter of the United Nations

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17.1
Watch an interview with Gorbachev

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Read about Nixon's visit to China to meet with Mao

18.1
Watch Nasser annoucing the nationalisation of the Suez Canal

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18.2
Watch a documentary about the 1973 Yom Kippur War

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Read about Castro's Cuba

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Watch a documentary about China and the Cold War

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The website of the Cold War International History Project

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The website that accompanies the CNN Cold War television series

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A section of the Spartacus Educational website dedicated to the Cold War

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The BBC History website

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The Avalon Project website

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The National Security Archive website

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The Miller Center website

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The PBS website

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The Soviet Archives Exhibit website

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PBS website with information on the Vietnam War