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.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 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 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted

African decolonization

Indian independence and partition

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Iranian Revolution (1979)

Great Leap Forward

Gandhi and satyagraha

Green Revolution

Proxy wars

Non-Aligned Movement

Cultural Revolution

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Marshall Plan

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Chinese Communist Revolution

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Containment and the Truman Doctrine

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Apartheid and its end

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Cold War

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Document-Based Question (7 points). Evaluate the extent to which nationalism shaped movements for independence from colonial rule between 1940 and 1975. Use the following document set. Document 1: Mohandas Gandhi, “Quit India” speech to the All-India Congress Committee (August 1942), calling for nonviolent mass action to end British rule. Document 2: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (September 1945), opening by quoting the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man. Document 3: Proclamation of the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (November 1954), announcing armed struggle for a sovereign Algerian state within an Islamic framework. Document 4: Kwame Nkrumah, speech at Ghanaian independence (March 1957), declaring that Ghanaian independence is meaningless unless linked to the total liberation of Africa. Document 5: Final Communiqué of the Bandung Conference (April 1955), affirming self-determination, non-alignment, and economic cooperation among Asian and African states. Document 6: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), arguing that colonial violence can be undone only by anticolonial violence and warning against a national bourgeoisie that inherits the colonial state. Document 7: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, presidential address to the Muslim League (1940), arguing that Muslims and Hindus constitute distinct nations requiring separate states.