Standards - Social Studies

Describe the impact of technological inventions, conditions of labor, and the economic theories of capitalism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism during the Industrial Revolution on the economies, societies, and politics of Europe.

Identifying important inventors in Europe during the Industrial Revolution

Comparing the Industrial Revolution in England to later revolutions in Europe

Describe the influence of urbanization on the Western World during the nineteenth century.

Describing the search for political democracy and social justice in the Western World

Describe the impact of European nationalism and Western imperialism as forces of global transformation, including the unification of Italy and Germany, the rise of Japan’s power in East Asia, economic roots of imperialism, imperialist ideology, colonialism and national rivalries, and United States’ imperialism.

Describing resistance to European imperialism in Africa, Japan, and China

Explain causes and consequences of World War I, including imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system.

Describing the rise of Communism in Russia during World War I

Describing military technology used during World War I

Identifying problems created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919

Identifying alliances during World War I and boundary changes after World War I

Explain challenges of the post-World War I period.

Identifying causes of the Great Depression

Characterizing the global impact of the Great Depression

Describe causes and consequences of World War II.

Explaining the rise of militarist and totalitarian states in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan

Identifying turning points of World War II in the European and Pacific Theaters

Depicting geographic locations of world events between 1939 and 1945

Identifying on a map changes in national borders as a result of World War II

Describe post-World War II realignment and reconstruction in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, including the end of colonial empires.

Explaining origins of the Cold War

Tracing the progression of the Cold War

Describe the role of nationalism, militarism, and civil war in today’s world, including the use of terrorism and modern weapons at the close of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

Describing the collapse of the Soviet Empire and Russia’s struggle for democracy, free markets, and economic recovery and the roles of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin

Describing effects of internal conflict, nationalism, and enmity in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, the Middle East, Somalia and Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Balkans

Characterizing the War on Terrorism, including the significance of the Iran Hostage Crisis; the Gulf Wars; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Depicting geographic locations of major world events from 1945 to the present

Describe emerging democracies from the late twentieth century to the present.

Discussing problems and opportunities involving science, technology, and the environment in the late twentieth century

Identifying problems involving civil liberties and human rights from 1945 to the present and ways in which these problems have been addressed

Relating economic changes to social changes in countries adopting democratic forms of government

Compare effects of economic, geographic, social, and political conditions before and after European explorations of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries on Europeans, American colonists, Africans, and indigenous Americans. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A. 1.d., A.1.g., A.1.i.]

Describing the influence of the Crusades, Renaissance, and Reformation on European exploration

Comparing European motives for establishing colonies, including mercantilism, religious persecution, poverty, oppression, and new opportunities