The Cold War
Enrichment · History
How the wartime alliance froze into forty years of standoff — and the thirteen days when it nearly ended everything.
Start here — the story
In October 1962 a Soviet submarine officer, cut off from Moscow, depth-charged and half-suffocating, refused to agree to launch a nuclear torpedo. Almost nobody knew his name for forty years. The world he saved spent the next three decades pretending it had all been under control.
The Complete Guide to the Cold War — 5 chapters, about 12 minutes. You are not expected to know anything before you start.
What you’ll be able to explain
- Explain how the Cold War began
- Live the Cuban Missile Crisis from inside ExComm
- Understand how 1989 ended it
The assessed version is Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History Depth Study 6 — A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72 — which stops in 1972 and is examined in a specific three-part format. This course ranges to 1989 and is not exam coverage.
Revising it for the exam? The assessed version on Incandio is Option 6 · A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72 — History, taught lesson by lesson with the Learn → Prove → Teach → Defend gates.