World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

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What late-eighteenth-century European artistic movement arose as a reaction against Classicism’s emphasis on reason? A impressionism B realism C romanticism D surrealism

Which of the following does not describe Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Russia? A They were all totalitarian governments. B Political opponents were killed in each state. C All three nations wanted to expand their borders. D Marxist principles governed all economic activity.

Jewish and Christian beliefs differ from the Greco-Roman tradition in matters concerning the importance of A the role of law. B individual morality. C belief in one God. D the family unit.

To increase production output during the Industrial Revolution, businesses primarily invested in A workers’ wages. B machinery. C training. D marketing.

The English philosopher John Locke argued that life, liberty, and property are A natural rights that should be protected by government. B political rights to be granted as determined by law. C economic rights earned in a capitalistic system. D social rights guaranteed by the ruling class.

Following the United States’ entry into World War II, American and British leaders decided that their highest priority would be to A recapture Pacific possessions lost to the Japanese. B invade Europe and defeat Germany. C send armies to the Russian Front to help the Soviet Union. D strike directly at the Japanese home islands.

World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

Democratic Understanding & Civic Values

Civic Values, Rights and Responsibilities

Constitutional Heritage

10.2.3 Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.

10.1.3 Consider the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.

10.1.2 Trace the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy or tyranny, using selections from Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics.

National Identity

No Relevant Standard

Skills Attainment & Social Participation

Participation Skills

CC Writing 9-10.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

CC Writing 9-10.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

CC Reading 9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.

Critical Thinking Skills

CC Writing 9-10.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a selfgenerated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

CC Reading 9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.

CC Reading 9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.

Basic Study Skills

CC Writing 9-10.2a Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

CC Reading 9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.

CC Reading 9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

Knowledge & Cultural Understanding

Sociopolitical Literacy

10.9.2 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.

10.7.3 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.

10.7.2 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 systempatic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine)

Economic Literacy

10.9.1 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.

10.3.5 Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.

10.1.3 Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.

Geographic Literacy

10.8.3 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 decision, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.

10.5.2 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.)

10.4.2 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.

Cultural Literacy

10.8.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of purusing 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 civillians.

10.4.4 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.

10.1.1 Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.

Ethical Literacy

10.5.5 Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman Ggovernment's actions against Armenian citizens

10.2.2 List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the American Declaration of Independence, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the U.S. Bill of Rights

10.2.1 Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America.

Historical Literacy

10.8.4 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)

10.5.3 Explain the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.

10.3.7 Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature, social criticism, and the move away from Classicism in Europe