8–10% of the AP exam. Key topics: Cold War ideological rivalry: US capitalism vs. Soviet communism; containment policy and Truman Doctrine, Proxy wars: Korean War (1950–53), Vietnam War, Angolan Civil War, Soviet-Afghan War, Nuclear arms race, space race, and MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine, Communist revolutions: Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China (1949), Cuban Revolution (Castro, 1959), Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Decolonization in Asia: Indian independence and Partition (1947), Indonesian independence, Vietnamese independence, Decolonization in Africa: Ghanaian independence under Kwame Nkrumah (1957), Algerian War of Independence, Congo crisis, Non-Aligned Movement: Bandung Conference (1955), Nehru, Nkrumah, Nasser as leaders of the 'Third World', Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and dissolution of the USSR (1991), Ongoing effects of decolonization: border conflicts, political instability, neo-colonial economic relationships.
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