Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization

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 consequences of China’s adoption of communism.

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

Compare the processes by which various peoples pursued independence after 1900.

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.

Explain various reactions to existing power structures in the period after 1900.

Explain the causes of the end of the Cold War.

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