❄️ The Cold War and Decolonization 🌎 🌍 🌏 | AP Modern World History
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About
It's a cool October night at the Air Defense Sector Direction Center in Duluth, MN, but internationally, it is nothing but cool. America and the Soviet Union have been butting heads the hardest they ever have, in Cuba and Turkey, playing with NUKES.
A guard there notices a figure, climbing the security fence, and activates the alarm. The alarm rings across many near bases, and in one, sounds the klaxon, an alarm meant to signify a nuclear attack. The air base scrambles NUCLEAR-armed F-106A interceptors, ready to begin a long winter. At the last minute, the base commander finds the mistake, and stops the planes from taking off. The intruder turns out to be a bear.
But, how did we get to this point, and how are we still here? This course will cover the intense details of the Cold War, from the mighty alliance that beat the Nazis, to the Berlin Wall and finally, the collapse of a once-superpower.
Course Details:
The course will begin with a focus on the post-WWI order, the Great Depressions's global impact, the dissection of the ideologies of socialism/communism, fascism and capitalism and the geopolitical tensions leading into WWII.
Then, it will go over WWII and Allied cooperation as well as times of distrust, such as the Manhattan Project and the Soviet nuclear program, the formation of the USA and USSR as superpowers, the Allied occupation of Germany, the Marshall Plan and NATO, as well as its counterparts, COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.
It will cover the formation of socialist republics in Eastern Europe, Communist victories in Asia, the Tito-Stalin split and the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as early proxy wars like in Greece and Iran.
It will cover the independences of Pakistan and India and subsequent conflicts, as well as in Israel-Palestine, China's civil war, the Korean War and African independence movements (Angola, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Libya, Algeria), and the Vietnam War, a proxy war between the US and USSR.
It will cover the birth and consolidation of new countries, Ghana, Nigeria..., covering governance challenges, constitutions, borders and ideological alignments.
It will cover the Soviet-American détente and then its end, the Soviet-Afghan War and the U.S. funding of the Mujahideen. It will cover Glasnost and Perestroika, the rise of neoconservatism, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the USSR and the subsequent economic crisis. It will also cover the the Gulf War.
Throughout, we will cover connections and causation, such as the Sputnik and the Moon Landing, Khrushchev's Secret Speech and the Sino-Soviet split, the détente and the Helsinki Accords and more. We will also cover the AP themes and how they correlate with each topic throughout. We will get SAQ practice done and a final LEQ for practice, where we will cover writing techniques.
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Heya! I'm a senior in high school from Texas, I love to read about the world, learn about history and talk about the current news. I have a cat named Milo, who's an absolute cutie who loves interrupting my Zoom meetings lol! I got a 1380 (superscored) on the SAT and have studied the test for over a year. Alongside that I've tutored students for multiple year as a private tutor and a teaching assistant. I'd love to help y'all out and help get you the score you want!!
✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY
Please do not miss more than three sessions in a row. If you know you will be absent, please contact me beforehand.
You may be withdrawn from the series if you continue to miss sessions.
SESSION 2
2
Aug
SESSION 2
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Sat 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCAug 2, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC
🍁🎃 The Leaves Fall in Europe | WWII and Post-War Europe
What was Operation Barbarossa?
What was the Lend-Lease?
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
What was D-Day?
What are the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?
How did the USA and USSR emerge as superpowers?
How did the Allies occupy Germany?
SESSION 3
9
Aug
SESSION 3
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Sat 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCAug 9, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC
🥶 🌡️ Frosty Europe | Emergence of the Cold War
What was the Eastern Bloc?
What was COMECON?
What was the Marshall Plan?
What was NATO?
What was the Warsaw Pact?
What was the Berlin Airlift?
What was the Tito-Stalin Split?
SESSION 4
16
Aug
SESSION 4
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Sat 10:00 PM - 11:15 PM UTCAug 16, 10:00 PM - 11:15 PM UTC
🧊🌨️ The World Ices Over | Cold War and Decolonization
What was the Berlin Blockade/Airlift?
What was the Chinese Civil War?
What was the Korean War?
What was the Greek Civil War
Who was Mossadegh?
What was the Suez Crisis?
What was the Hungarian Revolution?
What was the U-2 Incident?
What was the Non-Aligned Movement?
What was the Partition of India/Pakistan?
How was Angola decolonized?
How was Mozambique decolonized?
What happened in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
What was the Vietnam War?
What was the Prague Spring?
What was the Yom Kippur War?
What was the Fall of Saigon?
SESSION 5
23
Aug
SESSION 5
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Sat 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCAug 23, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC
🌱🌸 Spring Arrives | Soviet stagnation and Reagan
What was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
What was Solidarity in Poland?
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
What was the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada?
What was the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty?
What was the Sinatra Doctrine?
What was German Reunification?
What were the Velvet Revolutions?
SESSION 6
30
Aug
SESSION 6
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Sat 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCAug 30, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC
🎿☃️ Summer is Late | Post-Soviet Unipolar World and its Fractures
Who was Yeltsin?
What were the Belovezha Accords
What was the Gulf War?
What was the Transinistrian War?
What was the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis?
What was the First Chechen War?
What was the collapse of Yugoslavia?
What was the Second Chechen War?
What was the Prague NATO Summit?
What were the September 11th Attacks?