Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization (c. 1900–Present)

AP World History: Modern

Timeline of key events

Key concepts for the AP exam

The Cold War framework

Decolonization

The Non-Aligned Movement

Challenges of newly independent states

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Delegates at the Bandung Conference, 1955
Caption: Leaders of Asian and African nations at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, 1955. This gathering marked the emergence of the Third World as a political force and the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement.

How this unit connects to other units

Primary sources you should know

Harry Truman, Truman Doctrine (1947)

Jawaharlal Nehru on non-alignment (1956)

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

Key figures

Vocabulary

Unit 8 topics

Unit 8 overview8.1Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization8.2The Cold War8.3Effects of the Cold War8.4Spread of Communism After 19008.5Decolonization After 19008.6Newly Independent States8.7Global Resistance to Established Order After 19008.8Causation in the Age of the Cold War
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