Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization

Unit 8 - Students will be able to explain:

• 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.

• Explain the causes and effects of China's adoption of communism.

• Explain the causes and effects of movements to redistribute economic resources.

• The processes by which various peoples pursued independence after 1900.

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

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

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

• The causes of the end of the Cold War.

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