This course is designed to survey the history of the human experience from the late Middle Ages to the present Students will learn major events, concepts, and themes from the Western and non-Western traditions Strong emphasis is placed on the reading and interpretation of primary and secondary source documents, maps, and data, and on the application of knowledge through argument and explanatory writing using multiple sources. Students will be exposed to many seminal documents in world history, and will be expected to closely read and analyze complex text. Students will learn skills and content that will help prepare them for future course work in secondary social studies This course fulfills the World History graduation requirement.
Students will understand the historical development and current status of the fundamental concepts and processes of authority, power, and influence, with particular emphasis on the democratic skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens.
Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nations and World
Students will understand the diversity and commonality, human interdependence, and global cooperation of the people of Maryland, the United States, and the World through both a multicultural and historic perspective.
Standard 3.0 Geography
Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities and spatial connections throughout time.
Standard4.0 Economics
Students will develop economic reasoning to understand the historical development and current status of economic principles, institutions, and processes needed to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers participating in local communities, the nation, and the world.
Standard 5.0 History
Students will examine specific ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland, the United States, and around the world.
Standard 6.0 Skills and Processes
Students shall use reading, writing, and thinking processes and skills to gain knowledge and understanding of political, historical, and current events using disciplinary and inquiry literacies.
Unit I
Unit I: The First Global Age • 1450-1770
Unit Overview
This period in history is called the first "global age" because it saw a drastic increase in trade, technology, commerce, and began the era of globalization. The technological, agricultural, and medical advances in this period radically changed the way people lived, worked, and thought. European maritime exploration and colonization had horrific consequences for some peoples and launched European nations into positions of global power and wealth. Meanwhile, the traditional land based commercial empires continued to retain control and power in Eurasia. The exploration and colonization of the Americas that students study in United States history occurred within a geopolitical contest that become clear in this period. The events, technology, people, and movements that lead to today's interconnectedness and global society are all founded in this period. In order for students to understand many of the current issues faced by the world, they need an foundational grounding in "The First Global Age."
Content Standards
The World in 1450
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MWH 1.1
Explain major characteristics of the interregional trading system that linked peoples of Africa, Asia, and Europe on the eve of the European overseas voyages.
MWH 1.2
Examine the factors that led to the rise and collapse of Ming China.
MWH 1.3
Analyze China’s attitudes toward external political and commercial relations following the Zheng He voyages from 1405-1433.
MWH 1.4
Honors - Compare the role of Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in Chinese government and society.
MWH 1.5
Analyze how China influences Korea, Vietnam, and other societies of East and Southeast Asia politically, commercially, and culturally.
MWH 1.6
Analyze how the capture of Constantinople and the destruction of the Byzantine empire contributed to the expansion of Ottoman power.
MWH 1.7
Describe the institutions and economies of African Kingdoms before the period of the Atlantic Slave trade.
MWH 1.8
Explain the unification of Persia under the Safavids.
MWH 1.9
Describe the empires of Latin America before European exploration.
Renaissance, Reformation, and Catholic Reformation
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MWH 1.10
Analyze the social and intellectual significance of the technological innovation of printing with movable type.
MWH 1.11
Evaluate major achievements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture in 16th-century Europe.
MWH 1.12
Explain discontent among Europeans with the late medieval Church and analyze the beliefs and ideas of the leading Protestant reformers.
MWH 1.13
Explain the aims of the Catholic Reformation and assess the impact of religious reforms and divisions on European cultural values, family life, convent communities, and men’s and women’s education.
European Overseas Expansion
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MWH 1.14
Analyze the major social, economic, political, technological, and cultural features of European society, and in particular of Spain and Portugal, that stimulated exploration and conquest overseas.
MWH 1.15
Compare the motivation and significance of Portugal and Spain’s expeditions to Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
MWH 1.16
Explain the motivation for and the founding and organization of Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires in the Americas and Southeast Asia.
MWH 1.17
Compare the successes of the Ottoman, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Siamese powers in restricting European interaction.
The Americas and Exploration
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MWH 1.18
Describe the political and military collision between the Spanish and the Aztec and Inca empires and analyze why these empires collapsed.
MWH 1.19
Assess ways in which the Columbian Exchange affected European, Asian, African, and American Indian societies and commerce.
MWH 1.20
Honors - Explain why historians have called the Seven Years War the first “global war” and assess its consequences for Britain, France, Spain, and the indigenous peoples of the American colonial territories.
MWH 1.21
Analyze the emergence of social hierarchies based on race and gender in the Iberian, French, and British colonies in the Americas.
Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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MWH 1.22
Compare ways in which slavery and other forms of social bondage were practiced in the Islamic lands, Christian Europe and West Africa.
MWH 1.23
Describe government, trade, cultural traditions and urban life in the Songhay Empire in the 16th century and analyze reasons for the empire’s collapse at the end of the century.
MWH 1.24
Describe the conditions under which slaves made the “middle passage” from Africa to the Americas.
MWH 1.25
Analyze the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the economy, society, and culture in West and Central Africa.
MWH 1.26
Describe the conditions of slave life on plantations in the Caribbean, Brazil, and British North America and analyze ways in which slaves perpetuated aspects of African culture and resisted plantation servitude.
MWH 1.27
Honors - Analyze the ways in which entrepreneurs and colonial governments exploited American Indian labor and why commercial agriculture came to rely overwhelmingly on African slave labor.
The Gunpowder Empires
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MWH 1.28
Evaluate the Safavid political and cultural achievements under Shah Abbas.
MWH 1.29
Honors - Evaluate the Safavid empire’s artistic, architectural, and literary achievements.
MWH 1.30
Explain the Mughal conquest of India and analyze the relationships between Muslims and Hindus in the empire.
MWH 1.31
Evaluate the political and cultural achievements of the Mughal empire under Akbar.
MWH 1.32
Honors - Evaluate the Mughal empire’s artistic, architectural, and literary achievements.
MWH 1.33
Analyze the causes and the impact of the decline of the Mughal empire.
MWH 1.34
Honors - Assess the impact of gunpowder weaponry and other innovations in military technology on empire-building and the world balance of naval power.
Centralization of Power in Europe
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MWH1.35
Analyze the social and economic consequences of population growth and urbanization in Europe.
MWH 1.36
Honors - Describe major institutions of capitalism and analyze how the emerging capitalist economy transformed agricultural production, manufacturing, and ways in which women and men worked.
MWH 1.37
Analyze how the rise of centralized rule affected government, religion, economies, and societies in England, Holland, and Russia
Europe and Asia
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MWH 1.38
Compare the impact of European commercial and military initiatives on politics, economy, and society on the Indian subcontinent and in China and Southeast Asia.
MWH 1.39
Explain the character of centralized feudalism in Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate and the reasons for Japan’s political stability, economic growth, and cultural dynamism.
MWH 1.40
Analyze Japan’s relations with Europeans between the 16th and 18th centuries and the consequences of its policy of limiting contacts with foreigners.
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
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MWH 1.41
Explain the major themes of the Enlightenment and the way these ideas expressed or shaped social and cultural values of the time.
MWH 1.42
Explain the cultural, religious, technological, and philosophical impact of the Scientific Revolution.
MWH 1.43
Account for the coexistence of the new scientific rationalism with traditional learning and practices such as astrology, magic, and witchcraft.
MWH 1.44
Explain the principal ideas of the Enlightenment, including rationalism, secularism, progress, toleration, empiricism, natural rights, contractual government, and new theories of education.
MWH 1.45
Assess the impact of Enlightenment ideas on the development of modern nationalism and democratic thought and institutions.
MWH 1.46
Explain how academies, salons, and popular publishing contributed to the dissemination of Enlightenment ideas.
Global Trends to 1750
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MWH 1.47
Honors -- Explain major changes in world political boundaries between 1450-1770 and assess the extent and limitations of European political and military power in Africa, Asia, and the Americas as of the mid-18th century.
MWH 1.48
Honors - Identify patterns of social and cultural continuity in various societies and analyze ways in which peoples maintained traditions and resisted external challenges in the context of a rapidly changing world.
Unit II
Unit II: The age of revolutions • 1750
Unit Overview
The age of revolutions was arguably sparked by just one revolution - the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, but the ideas and impacts of mechanization, urbanization, and the specialization of labor spread quickly to the rest of Europe and the United States. Fueled by an agricultural revolution, industrialized nations soon sought out colonies to ensure access to natural resources to return for the factories. Furthermore intellectual shifts occurred in the areas of politics and society that led to the rise of nation states, democracy, and the diffusion of power. All of these technological, ideological, and political shifts led the migration of people on a massive scale.
Content Standards
Enlightenment Revolutions
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MWH 2.1
Compare the causes, character, and consequences of the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.
MWH 2.2
Explain how the French Revolution developed from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic Empire.
MWH 2.3
Describe how the wars of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period changed Europe and assess Napoleon’s effects on the aims and outcomes of the revolution.
MWH 2.4
Analyze the causes of the revolutions of 1848 and why these revolutions failed to achieve nationalist and democratic objectives.
End of the Slave Trade
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MWH 2.5
Assess the relative importance of Enlightenment thought, Christian piety, democratic revolutions, slave resistance, and changes in the world economy in bringing about the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves in the Americas.
MWH 2.6
Describe the organization of movements in Europe and the Americas to end slavery and explain how the trans-Atlantic trade was suppressed.
Latin America and Independence
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MWH 2.7
Analyze the influence of other revolutions and rebellions in South America on the development of independence movements in Latin America.
MWH 2.8
Compare the political roles of Creole elites, the Catholic Church, and mestizo, mulatto, and Indian populations in the independence movements.
MWH 2.9
Assess the successes and failures of democracy in Latin American countries in the decades following independence.
MWH 2.10
(H) Explain Latin America’s growing dependence on the global market and assess the effects of international trade and investment on the power of landowners and the urban middle class.
MWH 2.11
(H) Analyze the significance of the Mexican Revolution as the first 20th century movement in which peasants played a prominent role.
Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions
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MWH 2.12
Describe the characteristics of the “agricultural revolution” that occurred in England and Western Europe and analyze its effects on population growth, industrialization, and patterns of land-holding.
MWH 2.13
Assess the relative importance of geographical, economic, technological, and political factors that permitted or encouraged the rise of mechanized industry in England.
MWH 2.14
Compare the causes, character, and impact of the Industrial Revolutions in Great Britain, Russia under Peter the Great, and Japan under the Meiji Restoration.
MWH 2.15
Explain how industrialization and urbanization affected class distinctions, family life, and the daily working lives of men, women, and children.
European Conquest
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MWH 2.16
Analyze the geographical, political, economic, and epidemiological factors contributing to the success of European colonial settlement.
MWH 2.17
Explain the ideas of Social Darwinism and scientific racism in 19th-century Europe and assess the importance of these ideas in activating European imperial expansion in Africa and Asia.
MWH 2.18
Analyze the motives that impelled several European powers to undertake imperial expansion against the people of Africa, Southeast Asia, and China.
MWH 2.19
Explain major changes in world political boundaries during this era and analyze why a relatively few European states achieved such extensive military. Political, and economic power in the world.
Imperialism in Africa
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MWH 2.20
Explain the impact of religious and political revolutions on European imperial conquest.
MWH 2.21
Describe the rise of the Zulu empire and analyze its effects on African societies and European colonial settlement.
MWH 2.22
Assess the effects of the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa on political and race relations among the British colonial authorities, Afrikaners, and Africans. (The Boer War)
MWH 2.23
Analyze the sources and effectiveness of military, political, and religious resistance movements against European conquest.
MWH 2.24
Explain major changes in the political geography of Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa between 1880 and 1914.
Imperialism in China and Southeast Asia
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MWH 2.25
Analyze the causes of governmental breakdown and social disintegration in China in the late 18th century.
MWH 2.26
Analyze why China resisted political contact and trade with Europeans and how the opium trade contributed to European intrusion into Chinese markets.
MWH 2.27
Assess the causes and consequences of the mid-19th century Taiping rebellion.
MWH 2.28
Analyze how Chinese began to reform government and society after 1895 and why revolution broke out in 1911.
Imperialism in Japan
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MWH 2.29
Analyze the internal and external causes of the Meiji Restoration.
MWH 2.30
Analyze the goals and policies of the Meiji state and their impact on Japan’s modernization.
MWH 2.31
Assess the impact of Western ideas and the role of Confucianism and Shinto traditional values on Japan in the Meiji period.
MWH 2.32
Explain changes in Japan’s relations with China and the Western powers from the 1850’s to the 1890’s
Imperialism in India
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MWH 2.33
Explain the advance of British power in India up to 1850 and appraise the efforts of Indians to resist European conquest and achieve cultural renewal.
MWH 2.34
Compare the British conquest of India with European colonization of Africa and assess the role of indigenous elites under these colonial regimes.
MWH 2.35
Analyze the changes in Indian society and economy under British rule.
Russia
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MWH 2.36
Analyze relations between the Russian peasantry and land-owning aristocracy and explain the persistence of serfdom in the 19th century.
MWH 2.37
Assess the significance of imperial reforms and popular opposition movements in the later 19th century.
MWH 2.38
Explain the causes of the Russian rebellion of 1905 and asses its impact on reform in the succeeding decade.
The Ottoman Empire
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MWH 2.39
Analyze why the empire was forced to retreat from the Balkans and the Black Sea region.
MWH 2.40
Explain the reform programs of Selim III and Mahmud II and analyze the challenges these rulers faced in resolving the empire’s political and economic crises.
MWH 2.41
Analyze the efforts of the revolutionary government of the Young Turks to reform Ottoman government and society.
MWH 2.42
Explain the events causing the Ottoman Empire to align with Germany in WWI.
Unit III
Unit III: Crisis and Achievement • 1900 – 1945
Unit Overview
Between 1900-1945 the world social, political, and economic structure altered radically. Global interactions increased on an exponential scale. These interactions had massive consequences both positive and negative. International trade increased but the consequences of interconnection were felt in the Great Depression; the rise of the middle class in industrialized countries led to a population boom and substantial human migration; innovation in technology led to life saving medical advances but other technological innovations would lead to a massive negative impact on Earth's resources and resilience; and international competition and increased nationalism led to two global conflicts that cost millions of lives. It is important for students to understand the global shifts that occurred in this period in order to understand the choices the United States makes today as part of a global community. The two world wars taught humanity that interconnection in a "shrinking" world cannot be denied, and in order to participate fully as global citizens students must understand the implications of conflict, intervention, and the current power of technology to shape the world.
Content Standards
Early 20th Century Thought
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MWH 3.1
Describe the changing legal and social status of European Jews and the rise of new forms of anti-Semitism.
MWH 3.2
Explain the leading ideas of Karl Marx and analyze the impact of Marxist beliefs and programs in 19th century Europe.
MWH 3.3
Explain the origins of women’s suffrage and other movements in Europe and assess their successes up to World War I.
Build Up to World War I
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MWH 3.4
Identify major characteristics of the 19th century European nationalism and describe the importance of nationalism as a source of tension.
MWH 3.5
Describe the unification of Germany and Italy and analyze why these movements succeeded.
MWH 3.6
Explain how new inventions, including the railroad, steamship, telegraph, photography, and internal combustion engine transformed patterns of global communication, trade, and state power.
MWH 3.7
Analyze the precipitating causes of World War I including: economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, militarism, and imperialism.
World War I
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MWH 3.8
Describe the major turning points of the war and the principal theaters of conflict in Europe, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and the South Pacific.
MWH 3.9
Analyze the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations in support of “total war.”
MWH 3.10
Explain how massive industrial production and innovations in military technology affected strategy, tactics, and the scale and duration of the war.
MWH 3.11
Explain how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort of both the Allies and the Central Powers by providing military forces and supplies.
MWH 3.12
Analyze how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.
MWH 3.13
Assess the short-term demographic, social, economic, and environmental consequences of the war’s unprecedented violence and destruction.
MWH 3.14
Describe conflicting aims and aspirations of the conferees at Versailles and analyze the responses of major powers to the terms of settlement.
MWH 3.15
Explain how the League of Nations was founded and assess its promise and limitations as a vehicle for lasting peace.
The Russian Revolution
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MWH 3.16
Explain the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and analyze why the revolutionary government progressed from moderate to radical.
MWH 3.17
Explain Leninist political ideology and how the Bolsheviks adapted Marxist ideas to conditions peculiar to Russia.
MWH 3.18
Describe the rise of Joseph Stalin to power in the Soviet Union and analyze ways in which collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan disrupted and transformed Soviet society in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Between the Wars - Politics
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MWH 3.19
Explain how the collapse of the German, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires and the creation of new states affected international relations in Europe and the Middle East.
MWH 3.20
Explain how the mandate system of the League of Nations altered the pattern of European colonial rule in Africa and the Middle East.
MWH 3.21
Analyze how social and economic conditions of colonial rule, as well as ideals of liberal democracy and national autonomy, contributed to the rise of nationalist movements in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
MWH 3.22
Assess the challenges to democratic government in Latin America in the context of class divisions, economic dependency, and United States intervention.
Between the Wars - Society
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MWH 3.23
Explains the causes and social costs of the world influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
MWH 3.24
Analyze the objectives of women’s political movements in the context of World War I and its aftermath.
MWH 3.25
Evaluate the impact of WWI and its aftermath on literature art, and intellectual life including: Cubism, Surrealism, Socialist Realism, and jazz.
MWH 3.26
(H) Explain the impact of the work of Einstein, Freud, Curie, and other scientists and social scientists on traditional views of nature, the cosmos, and the psyche.
MWH 3.27
Explain the way major technological advances impacted world commerce, international immigration, work and leisure habits, and the social and cultural dimensions of mass consumption of goods.
MWH 3.28
Analyze how new media - newspapers, magazines, commercial advertising, film, and radio contributed to the rise of mass culture around the world.
Between the Wars - Economics and the Great Depression
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MWH 3.29
Analyze the financial, economic, and social causes of the Great Depression and why it spread to most parts of the world.
MWH 3.30
Assess the human costs of the Depression, and compare its impact on economy and society in different countries and economic regions of the world.
MWH 3.31
Analyze ways in which the Great Depression affected colonial peoples of Africa and Asia and how it contributed to the growth of nationalist movements.
MWH 3.32
Describe how governments, businesses, social groups, families, and individuals endeavored to cope with the hardships of world depression.
Causes of World War II
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MWH 3.33
Explain the ideologies of fascism and Nazism and analyze how fascist and authoritarian regimes seized power and gained mass support in Italy, Germany, Spain, and Japan.
MWH 3.34
Explain the German, Italian, and Japanese military conquests and drives for empire in the 1930’s.
MWH 3.35
Analyze the consequences of Western policies of isolationism and appeasement.
MWH 3.36
Analyze the motives and consequences of the Soviet non-aggression pacts with Germany and Japan.
World War II
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MWH 3.37
Explain the major turning points of the war, and describe the principal theaters of conflict in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, North Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
MWH 3.38
Analyze how and why the Nazi regime perpetrated a “war against the Jews” and describe the devastation suffered by Jews and other groups in the Nazi Holocaust.
MWH 3.39
Assess how the political and diplomatic leadership of such individuals as Churchill, Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin affected the outcome of the war.
MWH 3.40
(H) Compare the ideologies, policies, and governing methods of 20th-century totalitarian regimes with those of contemporary democracies and absolutist states.
MWH 3.41
Assess the consequences of World War II as a total war.
MWH 3.42
Explain how new technologies and scientific breakthroughs both benefited and imperiled humankind.
Unit IV
Unit IV: Potential and PAradox • 1945 – Present
Unit Overview
The world since 1950 might be the most important unit of study for students to truly understand the world in which they live. The impact and consequences of the post–World War II recovery and the Cold War shaped political, military, ideological, and social structures around the world and are still guiding the interaction of nations and regions today. This period not only included the Cold War and its end but also the rise of democracy as a global expectation rather than a benefit of the Western world. In the world in which we live today, globalization of ideas, goods, and movement inspires hope for true global understanding and acceptance.
Content Standards
Global Recovery
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MWH 4.1
Explain how the Western European countries and Japan achieved rapid economic recovery after World War II.
MWH 4.2
Explain why fascism was discredited after World War II and how popular democratic institutions were established in such countries as Italy, the German Federal Republic, Greece, India, Spain, and Portugal between 1945 and 1975.
MWH 4.3
Honors - Analyze the impact of World War II and its aftermath on literature, art, and intellectual life in Europe and other parts of the world. (Existentialism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art)
MWH 4.4
Explain why the United Nations was founded and assess its successes and failures up to the 1970’s.
MWH 4.5
Explain how international conditions affected the creation of Israel and analyze why persistent conflict developed between Israel and both Arab Palestinians and neighboring states.
Colonial Independence
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MWH 4.6
Assess the impact of Indian nationalism on other movements in Africa and Asia and analyze why the subcontinent was divided into India and Pakistan.
MWH 4.7
Analyze why some African and Asian countries achieved independence through constitutional devolution of power and others as a result of armed revolution.
MWH 4.8
Describe economic and social problems that new states in Africa faced in the 1960’s and 1970’s and analyze why military regimes or one-party states replaced parliamentary style governments throughout much of the continent.
The Cold War
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MWH 4.9
Explain why the Cold War took place, and ended, and assess its significance as a 20th century event.
MWH 4.10
Explain how political, economic, and military conditions prevailing in the mid-1940’s led to the Cold War.
MWH 4.11
Analyze major differences in the political ideologies and values of the Western democracies and the Soviet bloc.
MWH 4.12
Compare the impact of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe with the changes that occurred in German and Japanese society under Allied occupation.
MWH 4.13
Analyze the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for dominance in China.
MWH 4.14
Explain how the Communist Party rose to power in China between 1936 and 1949 and assess the benefits and costs of Communist policies under Mao Zedong, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
MWH 4.15
Explain the causes and international and local consequences of major Cold War crises, such as the Polish workers’ protest, the Hungarian revolt, the Suez crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
MWH 4.16
Analyze how political, diplomatic, and economic conflict and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union affected developments in such regions as Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
MWH 4.17
Explain why Cold War tensions eased in the 1970’s and analyze how developments such as the Helsinki Accords, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and Reagan-Gorbachev “summit diplomacy” affected progress toward detente.
MWH 4.18
Explain why the Soviet and other communist governments collapsed and the Soviet Union splintered into numerous states in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Continuing Struggles
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MWH 4.19
Assess the progress of human and civil rights around the world since the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
MWH 4.20
Explain the dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa and the winning of political rights by the black majority.
MWH 4.21
Analyze the continuing urban protest and reformist economic policies in post-Mao China in the context of state authoritarianism.
MWH 4.22
Analyze the causes, consequences, and moral implications for the world community of mass killings or famines in such places as Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
MWH 4.23
Assess the efficacy of policies and actions since the 1970’s in resolving the conflict between Israel and neighboring states.
MWH 4.24
Analyze why terrorist movements have proliferated and the extent of their impact on politics and society in various regions and nations.
Contemporary Issues - Global Growth and the Environment
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MWH 4.25
Analyze causes of the world’s accelerating population growth rate and connections between population growth and economic, agricultural, medical, and social development in many countries.
MWH 4.26
Describe the global proliferation of cities and the rise of the megalopolis and assess the impact of urbanization on family life, standards of living, class relations, and ethnic identity.
MWH 4.27
Analyze how population growth, urbanization, industrialization, warfare, and the global market economy have contributed to environmental alterations.
Contemporary Issues - Global Economics
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MWH 4.28
Explain the effects of the European Economic Community and its growth on economic productivity and political integration in Europe.
MWH 4.29
Analyze how the oil crisis and its aftermath in the early 1970’s revealed the extent and complexity of global economic interdependence.
MWH 4.30
Analyze why economic disparities between industrialized and developing countries have persisted or increased around the world and how both neo-colonialism and authoritarian political leadership have affected development in African and Asian countries.
MWH 4.31
Explain the emergences of the Pacific Rim economy and analyze how such countries as South Korea and Singapore have achieved economic growth in recent decades.
Contemporary Issues - Global Society.
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MWH 4.32
Assess the impact of digital communication and industrial technologies (outsourcing containerization, global banking, and automation) on regional and global labor markets.
MWH 4.33
Analyze how globalization challenged and reinforced local traditions regarding class, race, and gender roles.
MWH 4.34
Evaluate how new technologies globalized popular and consumer culture.