AI podcast covering the Cold War and decolonization, aligned to AP World CED.

Unit 8 explores the high-stakes power struggle and the birth of new nations that followed. This unit is about the Cold War, a global ideological battle between capitalism and communism, and decolonization, the process by which subject peoples broke free from imperial rule. Between 1945 and the late twentieth century, the world was reshaped by the rivalry between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and the emergence of dozens of newly independent states across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The unit examines how nuclear proliferation and proxy wars defined international relations, while nationalist movements challenged the remaining colonial power structures to redraw the global map.