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Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
c. 1900 - present
8-10% of AP Exam

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Unit 8 Planning Resources (Donate for Access)

  • Unit 7 and 8 Combined Pacing Guide
  • Unit 8 Topics Outline​
  • Unit 8 Study Guide

Unit 8 Presentations (Donate for Access)

  • Cold War (Topics 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) - UPDATED 3/15
  • Communism in China (Topic 8.4) - UPDATED 3/12​
  • Decolonization (Topics 8.5, 8.6) UPDATED 3/31
  • Global Resistance to Established Power Structures after 1900 (Topic 8.7)
  • Newly Independent States 

Unit 8 Handouts & Activities (Donate for Access)

  • Rise and Decline of Communist Regimes Graphic Organizer (Topic 8.4)
  • Causes and Outcomes of the Cold War Graphic Organizer (Topic 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
  • Rise of Communist Regimes Graphic Organizer complete Soviet Union portion in Unit 7 and China in Unit 8
  • Decolonization Graphic Organizer (Topics 8.5, 8.6) - UPDATED 3/31
  • Global Resistance to Existing Power Structures Graphic Organizer​​ (Topic 8.7)​​​
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Events of the Cold War Digital Poster - FREE to Access!

Assign for homework to speed up teaching the Cold War. You can have students present to the class or present in groups to save time. You can also treat it as a jigsaw activity by assigning students certain events in groups. 
  • Events of the Cold War instructions, example, student handout, and rubric

Comparing the Five Year Plans and the Great Leap Forward (Donate for Access)

  • Student Graphic Organizer
  • Documents
Alternate activity: Have students complete the graphic organizer (minus the sourcing practice) using these two presentations: 
  • Five Year Plans
  • Great Leap Forward

Analyzing the Causes of 20th Century Decolonization Movements (Donate for Access)

Covers Topic 8.5 - Entire activity UPDATED 3/12
  • Student Handout 
  • Student Documents

The following activities are free to access since I did not create them. I reorganized the content from Stanford History Education Group to streamline them for use in my classes. ​

Who Caused the Cold War? - Free to Access!

Covers Topic 8.2
  • Original Activity on SHEG
  • Student Handout
  • Documents

Partition of India Analysis - Free to Access!

​Covers Topic 8.5
  • Original activity on SHEG
  • Adapted Student Handout
  • Adapted Documents 

Unit 8 Handout Keys - COMING SOON

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 Unit 8 Vocabulary

  • Unit 8 Vocabulary

Unit 8 Crash Course Videos

  • ​Cold War​
  • Decolonization
  • Conflict in Israel and Palestine
  • Air Travel and Space Race

Unit 8 Heimler's History Links