Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
10.7 Students analyze the rise of Nationalistic governments leading up to World War I.
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).
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).
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.
Objectives
• Describe how Africans resisted colonial rule.
• Analyze how nationalism grew in Africa.
• Explain how Turkey and Persia modernized.
• Summarize how European mandates contributed
to the growth of Arab nationalism.
• Understand the roots of conflict between Jews
and Arabs in the Palestinian mandate.
Terms, People, and Places
apartheid
Pan-Africanism
négritude movement
Asia Minor
Pan-Arabism
Balfour Declaration
H-SS 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. 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. 6. 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.
16.1 - Independent Nations of South Asia (Not used 2022)
16.2 - New Nations of SE Asia (Not used 2022)
16.3 - African Nations Gain Independence (Not used 2022)
16.4 - The Modern Middle East (Assigned 2022)
17.1 - Conflicts Divide Nations (Not used 2022)
17.2 - Struggles in Africa (Not used 2022)
17.3 - Conflicts in the Middle East (Assigned 2022)