Students examine the period of Detente during the Cold War with a focus on SALT 1, the Helsinki Accords and SALT 2.

The lesson resources include:

• 1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
• 1 x Main Power Point Lesson

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The 20 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Lesson key questions
• Slide 3-5: Recap - Students recap the main events of the Cold War so far with a 10 question gap fill activity. Answers and printable resource included.
• Slide 6: Recap - Students then evaluate how these 10 events led to tension between the USA and Soviet Union.
• Slide 7-8: Starter Sources - Students study an image of the meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev as well as the Apollo-Soyuz mission to infer what the period of detente was.
• Slide 9: Starter Questions
• Slide 10-11: Background information covering the idea of MAD and the influence of the media on public attitudes in the 1960s and 70s.
• Slide 12: Task 1 - Students complete their own peace symbol to include reasons why both sides were looking to ease tensions by the 1970s.
• Slide 13: Task 2 - A diagram fill for students to explain the impact/consequences of the main events. Printable resource.
• Slide 14: Task 3 - Another printable worksheet based on information from the fact sheet
• Slide 15: Follow up questions
• Slide 16: Learning Review 1 - Was there really a period of detente? Students consider reasons for and against.
• Slide 17: Learning Review 2 - Fine someone who activity on a printable worksheet
• Slide 18: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 19: Exam/assessment questions
• Slide 20: More from RA Resources

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