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. 144.  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

3.

ASSIGNED TEXTBOOK READING –

• Review Ch 17 – Focus on p. 500 – 504
• Use the following resource:  Textbook Reading Guidelines

4.

Video	Content	Historical Thinking Skills
1st Video	examine the global context of the Cold War and the decolonization movement in Africa and Asia	4B – contextualization practice

5.

In this video Heimler walks through Unit 8 topic 1 (8.1) of AP World History. Really it’s just the setting of the stage for two major global processes that occurred in the twentieth century: the Cold War and decolonization.

With respect to the Cold War, two superpowers emerged on the world stage after World War II had ceased: the United States and the Soviet Union. There were deep seeds of mistrust sown between the two powers and that mistrust would lead to a more than forty year conflict between them, though they never fired any shorts directly at each other.

With respect to decolonization, recall that by 1918 colonization around the world had reached its peak. Colonial soldiers fought in both World Wars on behalf of their parent countries and it was during this time because of the devastating toll taken on the imperial powers by the war that colonies began seeking their independence.

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