CA.10.7. Content Standard: World History, Culture, and Geography
Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.
10.7.1. Performance Standard:
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. Performance Standard:
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. Performance Standard:
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.