DR 20.1 - Synthesize the influence of conditions, ideas and events of the 20th century to current World Issues:

a) The process of Enfranchisement (Human Rights and Challenges in Achieving Social Justice)

b) Recourse to Violence (Nuclear Proliferation, National Security, and rise of ethnic nationalism)

c) Global Inequality (Poverty in the Developing World and Challenges of a Growing Population).

d) Human Beings and the Environment (Costs of Development and Human Condition and the Environment – competing paradigms)

DR 20.2 - Explain the responses of nations to catalyst events during the 20th century and explain the consequences of these responses. Apply your understanding to the concept of societal change.

Challenges to Traditional Institutions.

DR 20.3 - Analyze the impact of new visions of humans and society on how nations viewed/interacted with other nations/people in the 20th century.

IN 20.1 - Explain how issues that have global consequences require global involvement

in seeking solutions.

IN 20.2 - Analyze how world conflict is rooted in a multitude of interdependent factors.

IN 20.3 - Analyze the interplay among the social, economic, political and cultural domains within a society and describe how changes within one of the domains impact the others.

IN 20.4 - Analyze the relationship between a distinct population’s (Ethnic Nationalism) aspirations to secure decision making powers and the society as a whole, as well as countries abroad.

PA 20.1 - Apply characteristics of Authoritarian and Totalitarian political paradigms to regimes of the 20th century. PA 20.2 - Analyze the impact of political paradigms on the relationship between individual rights and collective rights.

PA 20.3 - Analyze the delicate balance that exists in political decision making between

national security and collective security.

Alliances

International Organizations

PA 20.4 – Assess the impact of economic and/or political instability of nations to the world.

·Rise of radical political movements/paradigms.

RW 20.1 - Appraise the influence of Science and Technology on the use and distribution of resources and wealth in the 20th century.

RW 20.2 – Analyze the relationship between human and material resource availability to national decision making about the acquisition and distribution of wealth.

· Imperialism and strategic geographic regions