World History
Independence Movements & Decolonization
(1945-1990)
Unit Compelling Questions
Instructions: Choose one or more Compelling Questions (CQ) for the unit based on your available time. Each Supporting Question (SQ) is sequenced and scaffolded for the Compelling Question.
Note: Starred (*) Compelling Questions are in the H.S. World History example Planning & Pacing Guide.
CQ: How does imperialism change nations?
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: How did independence movements influence global markets?
SQ 2: How did the International Monetary Fund and World Banks influence new nations during decolonization?
SQ 3: How successful were independence movements in gaining their freedom through violent struggle?
SQ 4: How Did Colonialism Affect Kenya? (DBQ World History)
SQ 5: Why was Patrice Lumumba assassinated? (DIG)
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
Take Action (Optional)
CQ: What Ended Apartheid? (C3 Teachers)
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: What was apartheid?
SQ 2: What efforts were made by Nelson Mandela to end apartheid?
SQ 3: What efforts were made by groups within South Africa to end apartheid?
SQ 4: What efforts were made by international bodies to end apartheid?
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
Take Action (Optional)
CQ: How does independence create change?
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: How did the Cold War create problems during decolonization?
SQ 2: Was the partition of India a good plan given what people knew at the time? (SHEG)
SQ 3: How did World War II and independence movements influence global migrations?
SQ 4: How did global independence movements create new sovereign nations around the world?
SQ 5: How did European powers use violence to resist independence?
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
Take Action (Optional)
CQ: How does nonviolence change nations?
Teacher Guide
Student Workbook
Student Slides:
Staging the Compelling Question
SQ 1: What Made Gandhi’s Nonviolent Movement Work? (DBQ World History V3)
SQ 2: How did the United Nations influence independence movements?
SQ 3: How did independence movements use non-violence to successfully gain independence?
SQ 4: Gandhi, King and Mandela: What Made Non-Violence Work? (DBQ World History)
SQ 5: How did independence movements advance the development of human rights?
District Assessment: Summative Performance Task
Take Action (Optional)