Time Period 4: 1900-Present
Unit 8 Cold War
8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Explain the historical context of the Cold War after 1945
8.2 The Cold War; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Explain the causes and effects of the ideological struggle of the Cold War.
8.3 Effects of the Cold War; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Compare the ways in which the United States and the Soviet Union sought to maintain influence over the course of the Cold War.
8.4 Spread of Communism after 1900; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Explain the causes and consequences of China’s adoption of communism.
Explain the causes and effects of movements to redistribute economic resources.
8.5 Decolonization after 1900; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Compare the processes by which various peoples pursued independence after 1900
8.6 Newly Independent States; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
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.
8.7 Global Resistance to Established Power Structures after 1900; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Explain various reactions to existing power structures in the period after 1900.
8.8 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization; Notes and Assignments
Homework - Video Notes
Explain the causes of the end of the Cold War.
8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization; Assignments and Notes
Homework - Video Notes
Explain the extent to which the effects of the Cold War were similar in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.