World History Unit 15

Big Idea:

Understand the Independence Movements in Colonial World, the fluctuation of Communism, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

WH.13(A) [Readiness] summarize how the outcome of World War II contributed to the development of the Cold War

WH.13(C) [Readiness] identify the following major events of the Cold War, including the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the arms race

WH.13(E) [Readiness] summarize the rise of independence movements in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia and reasons for ongoing conflicts

Focus TEKS

WH.1(F) [Supporting] identify major causes and describe the major effects of the following important turning points in world history from 1914 to the present: the Cold War; independence movements

WH.13(B) [Readiness]summarize the factors that contributed to communism in China, including Mao Zedong’s role in its rise, and how it differed from Soviet communism

WH.13(D) [Supporting] explain the roles of modern world leaders, including Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II, in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

WH.18(E) [Supporting]explain why communist command economies collapsed in competition with free market economies at the end of the 20th century

WH.18(F) [Supporting]formulate generalizations on how economic freedom improved the human condition, based on students’ knowledge of the benefits of free enterprise in Europe’s Commercial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and 20th‐century free market economies, compared to communist command communities

WH.21(A) [Supporting]describe how people have participated in supporting or changing their governments

WH.22(C) [Supporting]identify examples of politically motivated mass murders in Cambodia, China, the Soviet Union

WH.22(E) [Supporting] identify examples of individuals who led resistance to political oppression such as Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi, Natan Sharansky, and Chinese student protestors in Tiananmen Square

WH.24(B) [Supporting] describe the major influences of women such as Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, and Golda Meir during major eras of world history

WH.28(C) [Supporting] explain the effects of major new military technologies the Cold War

Ongoing TEKS

WH.30(A) [Processing] use social studies terminology correctly

WH.30(B) [Processing] use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation

Student Learning Targets:

• I will identify the causes and effects of decolonization on Asia and Africa.
• I will recognize the continuing conflicts in post-colonial world.
• I will understand the political, social, and economic dynamics of the Cold War.
• I will compare and contrast Korean and Vietnam Wars.
• I will understand the rise and fall of Communism in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Essential Questions:

• How did the rise of nationalism promote decolonization?
• How did the US and the USSR respond to the Cold War?
• How did the Cold War affect Asia?
• What were the causes of the end of communism in Russia?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: World History Texas - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Holt McDougal

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