Cold War origins and development — Normal

Checked Paper 3 topics and Paper 4 European/American date ranges. The mini-tests sample these topics; they do not certify full teaching coverage.

A single unseen historian extract and extended interpretation response guide the skill progression. No extract or question is reproduced.

Informs attention to the whole interpretation, approach and relevant contextual knowledge. Local criteria are formative, not Cambridge marks.

Official documentary history index for the Marshall Plan, Berlin blockade/airlift, containment and early alliance formation.

Checks proposal in 1947 versus legislation in 1948, recovery aims and economic cooperation.

Actual prior-series scheme checked for the need to explain a whole qualified interpretation, rather than only a broad historiographical label.

Informs focus on the precise question, chronology, balanced arguments and explicit criteria for judgement. This is a pattern review, not a prediction of future questions.

Checks the creation of NATO and the collective-security context of European and North American cooperation.