Modern World History

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Explaining how the English Civil War and the Revolution of 1688 affected government, religion, economy, and society in Britain as well as the American coloniesسMWH.2.1.a)MWH.2.1.a

Comparing the causes, character, and consequences of the American and French RevolutionsسMWH.2.1.b)MWH.2.1.b

Evaluating the impact of the end of the trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved persons on Africa, the Americas, and EuropeسMWH.2.1.c)MWH.2.1.c

Analyzing how democratic ideals led to revolutions in Haiti, Mexico, and throughout South AmericaسMWH.2.2.a)MWH.2.2.a

Assessing the successes and failures of democracy in Latin American countries following independenceسMWH.2.2.b)MWH.2.2.b

Analyzing how scientific and technological advancements in communication, transportation, and agriculture led to the early Industrial Revolution in EnglandسMWH.2.3.a)MWH.2.3.a

Examining how the factory system and capitalism changed economic relationshipsسMWH.2.3.b)MWH.2.3.b

Comparing the internal and external geographic, economic, technological, energy and political factors that resulted in industrialization in Western European countries and the United States with those of Russia and JapanسMWH.2.3.c)MWH.2.3.c

Analyzing the impacts of Socialist and Marxist beliefs and programs on politics, industry, and labor relations in late 19th century EuropeسMWH.2.4.a)MWH.2.4.a

Explaining how industrialization led to demographic changes, migration, urbanization, disease, pollution, women’s suffrage, and the emergence of new social classesسMWH.2.4.b)MWH.2.4.b

Analyzing the causes of the economic gap between industrialized and non-industrialized countries and regions by comparing the positions of Britain, China, the African continent, and India at the end of the 19th CenturyسMWH.2.4.c)MWH.2.4.c

Explaining how the need for raw materials, new markets, and cheap labor led to imperialism in Africa and AsiaسMWH.2.5.a)MWH.2.5.a

Analyzing how Social Darwinism and scientific racism were used to justify western imperialism throughout the non-western worldسMWH.2.5.b)MWH.2.5.b

Examining how warfare, technology, and/or diplomacy were employed by industrialized nations to establish and strengthen control over colonial possessionsسMWH.2.5.c)MWH.2.5.c

Examining the influence of European ideology, culture, and religious norms on the creation of new political relationships, national identities, and social systems on the peoples of Africa, India, and ChinaسMWH.2.5.d)MWH.2.5.d

Explaining the impact of the Berlin Conference on the political geography of AfricaسMWH.2.5.e)MWH.2.5.e

Assessing the social, economic, and intellectual origins and significant events that led to the development of Indian NationalismسMWH.2.6.a)MWH.2.6.a

Comparing the methods and effectiveness of military, political, and religious resistance movements in German Southeast Africa/Tanganyika, Samori Ture in French West Africa/Guinea, Asante in Gold Coast/Ghana, and Menelik II in EthiopiaسMWH.2.6.b)MWH.2.6.b

Examining the creation of, and relationships among, those within the South African caste systemسMWH.2.6.c)MWH.2.6.c

Analyzing how and why Qing/Manchu China resisted industrialization and trade with Europe and the effectiveness of the Taiping Uprising and the Boxer Rebellion in resisting economic imperialismسMWH.2.6.d)MWH.2.6.d

Assessing the causes and impacts of the Tanzimat Reformers on the Ottoman EmpireسMWH.2.7.a)MWH.2.7.a

Analyzing the internal and external factors impacting Russian modernization and growth as an imperial powerسMWH.2.7.b)MWH.2.7.b

Evaluating the how rapid economic growth and policies of the Meiji state influenced Japanese imperial and colonial expansionسMWH.2.7.c)MWH.2.7.c

Evaluating the impact of nationalism on the development of Western (Germany, Italy) and non-Western (China, India, Egypt, Mexico, or Argentina) nationsسMWH.2.8.a)MWH.2.8.a

Analyzing how nationalism was a source of tension and conflict in places such as the Ottoman EmpireسMWH.2.8.b)MWH.2.8.b

Evaluating how growing tensions among rival European states and empires, compounded by nationalism, militarism, imperial competition, and alliance systems led to the outbreak of warسMWH.3.1.a)MWH.3.1.a

Assessing the effectiveness of the major strategies and turning points of the warسMWH.3.2.a)MWH.3.2.a

Analyzing how scientific and technological inventions impacted civilian populations and military personnelسMWH.3.2.b)MWH.3.2.b

Analyzing the effect of media to promote ideologies through propaganda on the warسMWH.3.2.c)MWH.3.2.c

Evaluating the contributions to, and impact of World War I on, colonial peoples in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle EastسMWH.3.2.d)MWH.3.2.d

Evaluating the experience of the Armenian people within the Ottoman EmpireسMWH.3.2.e)MWH.3.2.e

Assessing the global effects of the influenza pandemicسMWH.3.2.f)MWH.3.2.f

Explaining the domestic and international causes of the Russian Revolutions and its impact on World War OneسMWH.3.2.g)MWH.3.2.g

Assessing the effectiveness of the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and reparations on the balance of power in and geography of EuropeسMWH.3.3.a)MWH.3.3.a

Explaining how the collapse of the German, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman empires led to the eventual creation of new states in Europe and the Middle EastسMWH.3.3.b)MWH.3.3.b

Explaining how the mandate system altered patterns of European colonial rule in Africa and the Middle East and contributed to the rise of Zionism, pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism and other nationalist struggles for independenceسMWH.3.3.c)MWH.3.3.c

Assessing the impact of World War One on the women’s suffrage movement worldwideسMWH.3.3.d)MWH.3.3.d

Analyzing the political and economic causes of the DepressionسMWH.3.4.a)MWH.3.4.a

Comparing the impact of the Depression on the economies and societies in different countries, including its impact on colonial peoples of Africa and AsiaسMWH.3.4.b)MWH.3.4.b

Evaluating the global growth of nationalist and independence movements in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America including Sub-Saharan Africa, Indian Nationalism and independence, Pan Arabism/Arab Nationalism, and Mexican Indigenous movementsسMWH.3.4.c)MWH.3.4.c

Explaining the rise of authoritarian leaders and how they utilized technology and propaganda to seize power in Italy, Germany, Spain, the Soviet Union, and JapanسMWH.3.5.a)MWH.3.5.a

Examining how the quest for territory and Western appeasement led to the expansion of German, Italian, and Japanese powerسMWH.3.5.b)MWH.3.5.b

Assessing the effectiveness of the political leadership, major strategies, and turning points of the warسMWH.3.6.a)MWH.3.6.a

Comparing how scientific and technological innovations impacted civilians on the home front and military personnel on the battlefield in Great Britain, Europe, the Soviet Union, and JapanسMWH.3.6.b)MWH.3.6.b

Analyzing the contributions to and impact of World War Two on colonial peoples in South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the CaribbeanسMWH.3.6.c)MWH.3.6.c

Analyzing the systematic and state-sponsored atrocities perpetrated by governments in Europe and Asia during World War TwoسMWH.3.6.d)MWH.3.6.d

Evaluating the cause, course, and consequences of the HolocaustسMWH.3.6.e)MWH.3.6.e

Identifying how global networks were accelerated by the creation of the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World BankسMWH.3.7.a)MWH.3.7.a

Assessing the impact of World War Two on the formation of new states such as Israel, and the continued development of national identities in India, China, and the Pan African movementسMWH.3.7.b)MWH.3.7.b

Analyzing the political, economic, and ideological factors that led to the Cold WarسMWH.3.8.a)MWH.3.8.a

Describing the reactions of the Soviet Union to the tools of the Western policy of ContainmentسMWH.3.8.b)MWH.3.8.b

Analyzing the causes, leadership, events, and consequences of the Chinese Communist RevolutionسMWH.3.8.c)MWH.3.8.c

Analyzing how Mohandas Gandhi in India, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, and Ahmed been Bella in Algeria achieved colonial independenceسMWH.3.9.a)MWH.3.9.a

Explaining how Soviet and American relations influenced indirect conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the AmericasسMWH.3.10.a)MWH.3.10.a

Comparing resistance movements in Eastern Europe, Taiwan, India, and PakistanسMWH.3.10.b)MWH.3.10.b

Analyzing how the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square impacted the course of Chinese domestic and foreign policyسMWH.3.10.c)MWH.3.10.c

Examining how the internal policies of Mikhail Gorbachev, leadership, revolt, and economic decline in Eastern Europe, and political and economic pressure from Western powers contributed to the decline of the Soviet UnionسMWH.3.11.a)MWH.3.11.a

Explaining how the end of the Cold War and the post-Mao liberalization of the Chinese economy removed barriers to globalizationسMWH.4.1.a)MWH.4.1.a

Analyzing the relationship between globalization and the growth of multinational corporationsسMWH.4.1.b)MWH.4.1.b

Evaluating the impact of the European Union (EU), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank on trade and regional development, and global economic interdependenceسMWH.4.1.c)MWH.4.1.c

Assessing the impact of digital communication and industrial technologies (outsourcing, containerization, global banking, and automation) on regional and global labor marketsسMWH.4.1.d)MWH.4.1.d

Comparing how globalization contributed to urbanization, population changes, and regional migration in the developing and the developed worldسMWH.4.2.a)MWH.4.2.a

Analyzing how globalization challenged and reinforced local traditions regarding class, race, and gender rolesسMWH.4.2.b)MWH.4.2.b

Evaluating how new communications technologies globalized popular and consumer cultureسMWH.4.2.c)MWH.4.2.c

Analyzing the impact of population density and global travel on the spread of, and responses to, diseasesسMWH.4.2.d)MWH.4.2.d

Comparing regional, interregional, and global efforts to address resource scarcity, access to clean water, deforestation, global warming, and sustainable sources of energyسMWH.4.2.e)MWH.4.2.e

Analyzing how people have sought to gain access to democracy and human rights in Argentina, Guatemala, and NicaraguaسMWH.4.3.a)MWH.4.3.a

Describing the factors that led to the end of ApartheidسMWH.4.3.b)MWH.4.3.b

Examining the political, social, and economic factors that promoted and impeded the development of democracy in Egypt, Iraq, and IranسMWH.4.3.c)MWH.4.3.c

Evaluate the impact of self-rule in post-Colonial AfricaسMWH.4.3.d)MWH.4.3.d

Comparing and contrasting the causes and consequences of genocides and ethnic cleansings in South East Asia, Africa, and the Middle EastسMWH.4.4.a)MWH.4.4.a

Examining the role of the World Court, the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations (Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, UNICEF) in responding to conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Southeast AsiaسMWH.4.4.b)MWH.4.4.b

Comparing the outcomes of non-state aligned violence as a tool for political change in Northern Ireland, Spain, Russia, the Middle East, and PeruسMWH.4.5.a)MWH.4.5.a

Examining the range of responses to non-state aligned violence in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle EastسMWH.4.5.b)MWH.4.5.b