GCSE History Cold War origins: why the Grand Alliance collapsed after Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (July–August 1945), from the Truman Doctrine to the 1947 Marshall Plan.

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The Berlin Blockade

GCSE History Berlin Blockade, June 1948–May 1949: why Stalin cut land access to West Berlin, how the airlift supplied the city, and why NATO followed without a hot war.

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The Korean War

GCSE History Korean War 1950–53: a UN “police action” that turned containment hot in Asia, drew in China, and showed the Cold War would kill by proxy, not only by airlift.

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The Berlin Wall

GCSE History Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961: why Ulbricht and Khrushchev sealed East Berlin to stop emigration, and how the Wall froze the German question without a repeat of 1948–49.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

GCSE History Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Soviet missiles on Cuba and a US naval blockade (quarantine) that brought the superpowers to the nuclear brink.

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The Prague Spring

GCSE History Prague Spring 1968: Dubček’s “socialism with a human face”, the August Warsaw Pact invasion, and the Brezhnev Doctrine that limited reform inside the Soviet bloc.

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Détente

GCSE History détente: why the superpowers eased tension after Cuba, through SALT, Ostpolitik and Helsinki, and why Afghanistan in 1979 is taught as the thaw’s collapse.

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Afghanistan 1979

GCSE History Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, December 1979: why the USSR sent the 40th Army, how the USA armed the mujahideen, and why the war helped kill détente.

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Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War

GCSE History on Mikhail Gorbachev: glasnost, perestroika, INF 1987, 1989 revolutions and the 1991 Soviet collapse — why the Cold War ended without a NATO invasion of Moscow.

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Kaiser Germany

GCSE History Germany 1890–1918: how Kaiser Wilhelm II’s autocratic Reich combined industrial power, Weltpolitik and a weak Reichstag — then broke under total war.

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The Weimar Republic

GCSE History Weimar 1918–23: Ebert, Versailles, Article 48, Spartacists, Kapp, and 1923’s Ruhr–hyperinflation–Putsch cluster — a republic born in defeat and crisis.

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Weimar’s golden years

GCSE History Stresemann era 1924–29: Rentenmark, Dawes and Young Plans, Locarno and League — recovery that was real, cultural, and dangerously dependent on US loans.

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Depression and the Nazi rise

GCSE History 1929–33: how the Wall Street Crash, six million unemployed, Article 48 chancellors and elite miscalculation put Hitler in office on 30 January 1933.

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Nazi dictatorship

GCSE History how Hitler turned a chancellorship into a dictatorship: Reichstag Fire, 28 February decree, Enabling Act 23 March 1933, Night of the Long Knives 1934, then Führer.

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Life in Nazi Germany

GCSE History life under the Nazis: work, Strength through Joy, women, youth, churches and terror — consent, fear and who was excluded from the “national community”.

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Persecution and the Holocaust

GCSE History Nazi persecution and the Holocaust: from the 1933 boycott and 1935 Nuremberg Laws through Kristallnacht (1938) to wartime genocide — precise, evidential, without sensationalism.

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Opposition to the Nazis

GCSE History opposition in Nazi Germany: churches, youth, communists, Edelweiss Pirates, White Rose, army plotters of 20 July 1944 — real, fragmented, and unsuccessful until the regime was losing the war.

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