Starter activity: RECAP Complete answers to the questions on the sheet in front of you. This is to recap on important ideas we discussed in the previous lesson: 1) Explain Communism in your own words 2) Explain Capitalism in your own words 3) Explain what you think the message of the Bolshevik (Russian) cartoon is fro the 1920’s and what you think Western governments may have thought of this source
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Starter activity: RECAP
Complete answers to the questions on the sheet in front of you.
This is to recap on important ideas we discussed in the previous lesson:
1) Explain Communism in your own words
2) Explain Capitalism in your own words3) Explain what you think the message
of the Bolshevik (Russian) cartoon is fro the 1920’s and what you think Western governments may have thought of this source
UNIT 1: THE SEEDS OF THE CONFLICT
Lesson title: Why did tension increase between the USSR and the West between 1917 and 1944?
Objectives:
1. Recall your understanding of the systems of Capitalism and Communism
2. Explain the tensions which existed between the USA and USSR in the period 1917-44
3. Explain how these tensions were affected by the Second World War
4. Analyse the role of key individuals in relations between superpowers at the end of the Second World War
Study the pictures. They all hint at reasons why tensions between the West and the USSR grew in this period.
Cavalry officer, White Army in Russian Civil
War
WWI soldiersChamberlain meets Hitler,
1938
The Russian Tsar (King) being murdered by Bolsheviks
Key points before we start In 1917 there was a Revolution in
Russia in which the Bolshevik Party led by Lenin seized power and replaced the Tsar (King)
They were believers in Communism The USSR stands for United, Soviet,
Soviet Republic (1923)
What differences were there in ideology between Capitalism and Communism from 1917? Use pages 2-4