DIRECTIONS –  Take notes!  Do not rush through the 6 steps below!

1.  Know what is your AP focus (objective).  Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 145.  Review Using the Unit Guide.

2.  TIME MAP

World snapshot in the year 1960 CE
Titanic conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have gravely weakened the European nations. Their world-wide power has gone and new superpowers dominate the world.

• • Europe 1960 CE  Europe has experienced two devastating world wars, and is now divided between East and West.
  • East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1960 CE China, Japan and Korea have all experienced some of the most turbulent times in their entire history, as great wars have swept through East Asia.
  • India and South Asia 1960 CE  The long history of India and South Asia has entered a new chapter with the replacement of the British empire by independent republics.
  • Africa 1960 CE  The European nations are starting to withdraw from the empires in Africa.
  • Middle East 1960 CE  The Cold War has had a major impact on the Middle East.
  • National Geographic – Interactive Mapping
  • COUNTRY SIZE COMPARISON

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ASSIGNED TEXTBOOK READING –

• Review Ch 17 – Focus on p. 504 – 507
• Use the following resource:  Textbook Reading Guidelines

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After World War II ended, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the major superpowers of the world. And because they had competing systems of government and economics, there was a deep rift between them. Adding to the mistrust was America’s deployment of the atomic bomb to end the war (without telling their Russian ally).

Thus began a war without direct shooting that lasted for over forty years. The war was largely carried out through propaganda, an arms race, a space race, and many other escalating competitions.

However, there was a significant number of newly formed countries that wanted nothing to do with this conflict, and so they banded together in the Non-Aligned Movement.

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