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Unit8ColdWar and Decolonization

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8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
8.2 The Cold War
8.3 Effects of the Cold War

Class Activities

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the historical context of the Cold War after 1945.

  • Explain the causes and effects of the ideological struggle of the Cold War.

  • Compare the ways in which the United States and the Soviet Union sought to maintain influence over the course of the Cold War.

Reading and Notes

  • 8.1: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 547-550.

  • 8.2: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 554-557.

  • 8.3: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 562-567.

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8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900
8.5 Decolonization After 1900
8.6 Newly Independent States

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the causes and consequences of China’s adoption of communism.

  • Compare the processes by which various peoples pursued independence after 1900.

  • Explain how political changes in the period from c. 1900 to the present led to territorial, demographic, and nationalist developments.

  • Explain the economic changes and continuities resulting from the process of decolonization.

Reading and Notes

Class Activities

  • 8.4: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 571-574.

  • 8.5: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 579-585.

  • 8.6: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 589-594.

8.7 Global Resistance to Extablished Power Structures After 1900
8.8 End of the Cold War
8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization

Learning Objectives

  • Explain various reactions to existing power structures in the period after 1900.

  • Explain the causes of the end of the Cold War.

  • Explain the extent to which the effects of the Cold War were similar in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Reading and Notes

Class Activities

  • 8.7: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 599-604.

  • 8.8: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 608-611.

  • 8.9: AMSCO AP World History Modern pages 615-621..

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