DIRECTIONS –  Take notes!  Do not rush through the 5 steps below!

1.  Know what is your AP focus (objective).  Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 148.  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 18 – Focus on p. 522 – 532
• Use the following resource:  Textbook Reading Guidelines

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In this video Heimler walks you through the AP World History curriculum for Unit 8 Topic 5 (8.5). This main theme here is decolonization after 1900. There were essentially two ways former colonies gained their independence: through negotiation and through armed struggle.

Examples of negotiated independence include India and Pakistan along with French West Africa. Examples of independence through armed struggle include Algeria and Vietnam among others.

There are also a few independence movements that don’t fit neatly into either category including the Egyptian Suez Crisis and the Quebecois Separatist Movement.

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