Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1991: Social Studies Unit 7, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1991 is Unit 7 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 97 pages.

• Mechanisms of decolonization (imperial financial exhaustion; nationalist mobilization)
• The Non-Aligned Movement and the distinction between non-alignment and neutrality
• Proxy war as a category of Cold War conflict
• Named Cold War crises: dates and involved blocs
• Framing of Cold War events in aligned vs. non-aligned sources
• Post-colonial economic dependency as a legacy of forced-labor and industrial-capital systems
• Competing explanatory patterns for post-independence trajectories
• Superpower interest as an explanatory factor in untaught proxy conflicts
• Agency in decolonization narratives (granted vs. won)
• Cross-unit evidence organization for the case-study argument

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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