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 colonies.2.A.1

Comparing the causes, character, and consequences of the American and French Revolutions.2.A.2

Evaluating the impact of the end of the trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved persons on Africa, the Americas, and Europe.2.A.3

Analyzing how democratic ideals led to revolutions in Haiti, Mexico, and throughout South America.2.B.1

Assessing the successes and failures of democracy in Latin American countries following independence.2.B.2

Analyzing how scientific and technological advancements in communication, transportation, and agriculture led to the early Industrial Revolution in England.2.C.1

Examining how the factory system and capitalism changed economic relationships.2.C.2

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 Japan.2.C.3

Analyzing the impacts of Socialist and Marxist beliefs and programs on politics, industry, and labor relations in late 19th century Europe.2.D.1

Explaining how industrialization led to demographic changes, migration, urbanization, disease, pollution, women's suffrage, and the emergence of new social classes.2.D.2

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 Century.2.D.3

Explaining how the need for raw materials, new markets, and cheap labor led to imperialism in Africa and Asia.2.E.1

Analyzing how Social Darwinism and scientific racism were used to justify western imperialism throughout the non‐western world.2.E.2

Examining how warfare, technology, and/or diplomacy were employed by industrialized nations to establish and strengthen control over colonial possessions.2.E.3

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 China.2.E.4

Explaining the impact of the Berlin Conference on the political geography of Africa2.E.5

Assessing the social, economic, and intellectual origins and significant events that led to the development of Indian Nationalism.2.F.1

Comparing the methods and effectiveness of military, political, and religious resistance movements in German Southwest Africa/Tanganyika, Samori Ture in French West Africa/Guinea, Asante in Gold Coast/Ghana, and Menelik II in Ethiopia.2.F.2

Examining the creation of, and relationships among, those within the South African caste system.2.F.3

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 imperialism.2.F.4

Assessing the causes and impacts of the Tanzimat Reformers on the Ottoman Empire.2.G.1

Analyzing the internal and external factors impacting Russian modernization and growth as an imperial power.2.G.2

Evaluating the how rapid economic growth and policies of the Meiji state influenced Japanese imperial and colonial expansion2.G.3

Evaluating the impact of nationalism on the development of Western (Germany, Italy) and non-Western (China, India, Egypt, Mexico, or Argentina) nations.2.H.1

Analyzing how nationalism was a source of tension and conflict in places such as the Ottoman Empire2.H.2

Evaluating how growing tensions among rival European states and empires, compounded by nationalism, militarism, imperial competition, and alliance systems led to the outbreak of war.3.A.1

Assessing the effectiveness of the major strategies and turning points of the war.3.B.1

Analyzing how scientific and technological inventions impacted civilian populations and military personnel.3.B.2

Analyzing the effect of media to promote ideologies through propaganda on the war.3.B.3

Evaluating the contributions to, and impact of World War I on, colonial peoples in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.3.B.4

Evaluating the experience of the Armenian people within the Ottoman Empire.3.B.5

Assessing the global effects of the influenza pandemic.3.B.6

Explaining the domestic and international causes of the Russian Revolutions and its impact on World War One.3.B.7

Assessing the effectiveness of the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and reparations on the balance of power in and geography of Europe3.C.1

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 East.3.C.2

Explaining how the mandate system altered patterns of European colonial rule in Africa and the Middle East and led to the rise of pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism and other nationalist struggles for independence.3.C.3

Assessing the impact of World War One on the women's suffrage movement worldwide3.C.4

Analyzing the political and economic causes of the Depression.3.D.1

Comparing the impact of the Depression on the economies and societies in different countries, including its impact on colonial peoples of Africa and Asia.3.D.2

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 movements3.D.3

Explaining the rise of authoritarian leaders and how they utilized technology and propaganda to seize power in Italy, Germany, Spain, the Soviet Union, and Japan.3.E.1

Examining how the quest for territory and Western appeasement led to the expansion of German, Italian, and Japanese power.3.E.2

Assessing the effectiveness of the political leadership, major strategies, and turning points of the war.3.F.1

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 Japan.3.F.2

Analyzing the contributions to and impact of World War Two on colonial peoples in South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean.3.F.3

Analyzing the systematic and state-sponsored atrocities perpetrated by governments in Europe and Asia during World War Two.3.F.4

Evaluating the cause, course, and consequences of the Holocaust.3.F.5

Identifying how global networks were accelerated by the creation of the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank..3.G.1

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 movement3.G.2

Analyzing the political, economic, and ideological factors that led to the Cold War.3.H.1

Describing the reactions of the Soviet Union to the tools of the Western policy of Containment.3.H.2

Analyzing the causes, leadership, events, and consequences of the Chinese Communist Revolution.3.H.3

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 independence.3.I.1

Explaining how Soviet and American relations influenced indirect conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.3.J.1

Comparing resistance movements in Eastern Europe, Taiwan, India, and Pakistan.3.J.2

Analyzing how the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square impacted the course of Chinese domestic and foreign policy.3.J.3

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 Union3.K.1

Explaining how the end of the Cold War and the post-Mao liberalization of the Chinese economy removed barriers to globalization.4.A.1

Analyzing the relationship between globalization and the growth of multinational corporations.4.A.2

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 interdependence.4.A.3

Assessing the impact of digital communication and industrial technologies (outsourcing, containerization, global banking, and automation) on regional and global labor markets4.A.4

Comparing how globalization contributed to urbanization, population changes, and regional migration in the developing and the developed world.4.B.1

Analyzing how globalization challenged and reinforced local traditions regarding class, race, and gender roles.4.B.2

Evaluating how new communications technologies globalized popular and consumer culture.4.B.3

Analyzing the impact of population density and global travel on the spread of, and responses to, diseases.4.B.4

Comparing regional, interregional, and global efforts to address resource scarcity, access to clean water, deforestation, global warming, and sustainable sources of energy4.B.5

Analyzing how people have sought to gain access to democracy and human rights in Argentina, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.4.C.1

Describing the factors that led to the end of Apartheid.4.C.2

Examining the political, social, and economic factors that promoted and impeded the development of democracy in Egypt, Iraq, and Iran.4.C.3

Evaluate the impact of self-rule in post-Colonial Africa.4.C.4

Comparing and contrasting the causes and consequences of genocides and ethnic cleansings in South East Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.4.D.1

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 Asia.4.D.2

Comparing the outcomes of non-state aligned violence as a tool for political change in Northern Ireland, Spain, Russia, the Middle East, and Peru4.E.1

Examining the range of responses to non-state aligned violence in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East4.E.2