Understanding causation in history
What is historical causation?
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Types of causes
Causation and the Cold War
What caused the Cold War?
What caused decolonization?
What caused communism to spread?
Causal chains and connections
The chain from WWII to the Cold War to decolonization
How the Cold War affected decolonization
How decolonization affected the Cold War
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Causation and resistance movements
Why did resistance movements emerge?
The chain reaction of resistance
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Analyzing causation for the AP exam
Common essay types
Strategies for writing about causation
Practice: analyzing a causal chain
Comparison: causes across regions
Comparing causes of communist revolutions
Key comparison insight
Primary sources
Harry Truman, Truman Doctrine speech (1947)
Mikhail Gorbachev, speech to the UN General Assembly (1988)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Key figures
Key events summary
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