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AP European History Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe

Fifteen lessons cover the substantial 1945-present European trajectory: the Cold War polarization, postwar reconstruction and the welfare state, decolonization, the 1968 cultural mobilization, the European Union, the 1989-1991 Eastern bloc collapse, migration and globalization, and the substantial twenty-first-century challenges that close the AP Euro course.

Lessons15 of 15Complete CED coverage
Total Time~ 13 hoursRecommended pacing: 15 days
CED Topics9.1 - 9.15All 15 unit topics
AP Exam Weight10-15%Roughly 1 in 8 exam points
Lesson Sequence

The 15 lessons in order

9.1

Contextualizing Cold War and Contemporary Europe

CED Topic 9.1 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.2

Rebuilding Europe

CED Topic 9.2 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.3

The Cold War

CED Topic 9.3 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.4

Two Super Powers Emerge

CED Topic 9.4 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.5

Postwar Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Atrocities

CED Topic 9.5 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.6

Contemporary Western Democracies

CED Topic 9.6 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.7

The Fall of Communism

CED Topic 9.7 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.8

20th-Century Feminism

CED Topic 9.8 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.9

Decolonization

CED Topic 9.9 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.10

The European Union

CED Topic 9.10 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.11

Migration and Immigration

CED Topic 9.11 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.12

Technology

CED Topic 9.12 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.13

Globalization

CED Topic 9.13 · Causation. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.14

20th- and 21st-Century Culture, Arts, and Demographic Trends

CED Topic 9.14 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min
9.15

Continuity and Change in the 20th and 21st Centuries

CED Topic 9.15 · Continuity and Change. Verifier-clean, paraphrased Learning Objective and Key Concept alignment.

~ 50 min