Cold War/Decolonization Soap Opera

1 - Communist China

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Mao Zedong

• Nationalist (Guomindang) Party

• Chinese Civil War

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Deng Xiaoping

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.652-655, 683-687, 708

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.770, 782-783 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

2 - Korean War

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Kim Il-Sung

• Singman Rhee

• United Nations Security Council

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chinese intervention

• Demilitarized Zone

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.690

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.768-770 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

3 - Vietnam War

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Ho Chi Minh

• Dienbienphu

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• Laos and Cambodia

• Paris Peace Accords of 1973

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.690, 701, 703

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.776-777 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

4 - Algeria

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Colons

• Vineyards, oil, and gas

• Front de Liberation National (FLN)

• Guy Mollet

• Charles DeGaulle

• Ahmad Ben Bella

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.652-655

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.772-776 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

5 - Cuban Missile Crisis

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Fulgencio Batista

• Fidel Castro

• Bay of Pigs

• Nuclear missiles

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.691-693

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.783-784 (see Ch.20, section IV)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

6 - The Eastern Bloc

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Imre Nagy

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Prague Spring 1968

• Alexander Dubček

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.694

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.779-780, 788-787 (see Ch.20, section IV)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

7 - Congo

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• Belgians expatriates

• Patrice Lumumba

• Joseph Kasaubu

• Mobutu Sese Seko

• Katanga Region

• American CIA/Soviet KGB

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.652-655

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.773-774 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

8 - South Africa

REQUIRED EVENTS AND CHARACTERS

• African National Congress (ANC)

• Apartheid

• Nelson Mandela

• Winnie Mandela

• Sharpsville Massacre 

• U.S. relationship with South Africa

RESOURCES

• Pages from Ways of the World, p.652-655

• Pages from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p.775-776 (see Ch.20, section III)

• Pages from Modern World History (CP World History text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica