GCSE History Practice Book 3

Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Detente, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War, 1970-91, Detente and Arms Control: SALT I and the Helsinki Agreement, 1969-75, The Collapse of Detente: SALT II and the Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979 and 6 more

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Pages: 79 A4 pages (limit 90)
Chapters: 9 worksheet chapters
Questions: 146, 457 marks
Answers: Full mark schemes from page 53
Level: GCSE
For: Years 10-11, Edexcel / AQA

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Every chapter opens with a divider page giving its marks and suggested timing, then runs its question pages. The mark schemes for all 9 chapters are grouped at the back, so the book works as homework, as a timed test, or as revision.

01Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Detente, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War, 1970-9118 questions · 61 marks · about 65 minp3
02Detente and Arms Control: SALT I and the Helsinki Agreement, 1969-7517 questions · 56 marks · about 65 minp9
03The Collapse of Detente: SALT II and the Invasion of Afghanistan, 197917 questions · 48 marks · about 65 minp15
04Effects of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan on Superpower Relations15 questions · 48 marks · about 65 minp21
05Gorbachev's New Thinking: Glasnost, Perestroika and Reform in the USSR17 questions · 51 marks · about 65 minp26
06The Reagan-Gorbachev Summits and the INF Treaty, 1985-8715 questions · 47 marks · about 65 minp32
07The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War, 1989-9115 questions · 46 marks · about 65 minp37
08Early Elizabethan England, 1569-1587: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Revolt of the Northern Earls16 questions · 50 marks · about 65 minp42
09Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1559: Elizabeth's Succession and Character16 questions · 50 marks · about 65 minp47
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The series runs to 9 volumes, in curriculum order. They are all free.

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