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10.1.1
Analyze Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law
Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.
10.1.2
Trace development of rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny
Trace the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, using selections from Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics.
10.1.3
Consider the U.S. Constitution's influence today
Consider the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.
10.2.1
Compare philosophers' effects on democratic revolutions
Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).
10.2.2
List principles of major founding documents
List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791).
10.2.3
Understand the unique character of the American Revolution
Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.
10.2.4
Explain the French Revolution's ideological development
Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
10.2.5
Discuss nationalism's spread and repression after Napoleon
Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
10.3.1
Analyze why England industrialized first
Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.
10.3.2
Examine effects of scientific and technological change
Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).
10.3.3
Describe population growth and urban migration
Describe the growth of population, rural to urban migration, and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution.
10.3.4
Trace evolution of work and labor
Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.
10.3.5
Understand connections in an industrial economy
Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.
10.3.6
Analyze emergence of capitalism and responses to it
Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
10.3.7
Describe emergence of Romanticism and social criticism
Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., the novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.
10.4.1
Describe rise of industrial economies and imperialism
Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).
10.4.2
Discuss locations of colonial rule
Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
10.4.3
Explain imperialism from colonizer and colonized perspectives
Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.
10.4.4
Describe independence struggles of colonized regions
Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.
10.5.1
Analyze arguments for entering World War I
Analyze the arguments for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of "total war."
10.5.2
Examine theaters of battle and geographic factors
Examine the principal theaters of battle, major turning points, and the importance of geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways, distance, climate).
10.5.3
Explain effects of the Russian Revolution and U.S. entry
Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.
10.5.4
Understand the war's human costs
Understand the nature of the war and its human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort.
10.5.5
Discuss human rights violations including the Armenian genocide
Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government's actions against Armenian citizens.
10.6.1
Analyze the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
Analyze the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of the United States's rejection of the League of Nations on world politics.
10.6.2
Describe effects of the war and peace treaties
Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle East.
10.6.3
Understand disillusionment with prewar institutions
Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.
10.6.4
Discuss WWI's influence on literature and art
Discuss the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the "lost generation" of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).
10.7.1
Understand causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution
Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag).
10.7.2
Trace Stalin's rise to power
Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).
10.7.3
Analyze rise and human costs of totalitarian regimes
Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits.
10.8.1
Compare German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire
Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
10.8.2
Understand appeasement and isolationism before WWII
Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
10.8.3
Identify Allied and Axis powers and turning points
Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
10.8.4
Describe political and military leaders during WWII
Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).
10.8.5
Analyze Nazi racial policy and the Holocaust
Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
10.8.6
Discuss the human costs of World War II
Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
10.9.1
Compare economic and military power shifts after WWII
Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.
10.9.2
Analyze the causes of the Cold War
Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.
10.9.3
Understand the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.
10.9.4
Analyze the Chinese Civil War and rise of Mao Tse-tung
Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).
10.9.5
Describe uprisings in Soviet satellite countries
Describe the uprisings in Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.
10.9.6
Understand nationalism in the Middle East and Israel's founding
Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.
10.9.7
Analyze reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union
Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.
10.9.8
Discuss the United Nations and postwar alliances
Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.
10.10.1
Understand challenges in nation-building regions
Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.
10.10.2
Describe recent history of nation-building regions
Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.
10.10.3
Discuss important trends in the regions today
Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.
10.11
Analyze integration into the world economy
Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).