Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization
World History · Unit 8 · Paper 1

Cold War & Decolonization unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 38 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 8, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Three paths to independence

2

Gastarbeiter

3

Proxy wars

4

Domino theory

5

Angola after 1975

6

Gandhi and satyagraha

7

Green Revolution

8

Iranian Revolution (1979)

9

Belgian identity cards in Rwanda

10

Cost of proxy conflict locally

11

Collapse of the Soviet Union

12

New International Economic Order

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Marshall Plan

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Why the Cold War was fought elsewhere

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Chinese Communist Revolution

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Partition scale

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

LONG ESSAY QUESTION. Evaluate the extent to which decolonization changed political and economic structures in the period from 1945 to 2000.

In your response you should do the following: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using specific and relevant examples of evidence. Use historical reasoning to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt.