Causation in the Age of The Cold War and Decolonization
Driving Question: How did the intertwined trends of the Cold War and decolonization impact societies around the world after 1900?
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War had global consequences. Combined with decolonization, the world experienced an intense period of change during this era.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the extent to which the effects of the Cold War were similar in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
- Use peer editing to revise a previous LEQ essay to evaluate how to improve historical writing using all elements of the WHP LEQ Writing Rubric.
At this point in the course, you’ve probably reviewed and revised student essays based on different rows of the WHP LEQ Writing Rubric. In this activity, you’re going to do this again, but this time with one of your classmate’s essays—and using the entire rubric.
Help students work on their writing skills by providing sentence starters. You can even post these around the classroom to help students throughout the year. Some examples are:
- This article/lesson/video discusses …
- In this lesson …
- For instance …
- In contrast to …
- As a result of …
Compile all you’ve learned about decolonization and the Cold War in the final LEQ of the course.
