Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization
World History · Unit 8 · Paper 2

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 2” 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 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Three paths to independence

2

Proxy wars

3

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

4

New International Economic Order

5

Cuban Missile Crisis resolution

6

Non-alignment as strategy

7

Marshall Plan

8

Non-Aligned Movement

9

Bandung Conference (1955)

10

Korean War outcome

11

Iranian Revolution (1979)

12

What new states inherited

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Green Revolution

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Partition scale

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Why decolonization came after 1945

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Angola after 1975

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION. Read the description of the source. Source — final communiqué of the Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955. The conference brought together representatives of twenty-nine newly independent and soon-to-be-independent states of Asia and Africa, including India, China, Egypt, Indonesia, and Ghana's future leadership. The communiqué declares colonialism in all its manifestations an evil to be brought to an end, affirms respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations and the equality of all races and nations large and small, calls for economic and cultural cooperation among the participants, and urges the settlement of disputes by peaceful means and abstention from arrangements serving the particular interests of the great powers.

A. Briefly describe one goal expressed by the participating states.

B. Briefly explain one way decolonization shaped the Cold War between 1945 and 1991.

C. Briefly explain one challenge faced by newly independent states after 1945.