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Unit 8

End of Empire and Cold War

As colonized peoples rose up and cast off the chains of empire, two new superpowers rose from the ashes of the Second World War. The Cold War and decolonization collided to reshape global power, but old inequalities remained.

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Unit 8 Problem

What can we learn when we study the Cold War and decolonization together?

8.0 Unit 8 Overview

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8.1 The Cold War

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8.2 End of Empire

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