World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

Participation Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.1 Initiatiate and pariticpate in a range of collaborative discussions, with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, with texts, and issues, building on other's ideas and expressing their own clearly.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy L 9-10.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar useage when writing or speaking

Crtical Thinking Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.2 Integrate multiple sources of information on media or formats evaulating the credibility and accuracy of each source.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.3 Evaulate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, use of evidence and rhetoric, identififying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated, distroted evidence.

Basic Study Skills

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL 9-10.6 Adapt speech to a variety of context and tasks.

CCSS.ELA- Literacy RL 9-10.2 Determine a central theme of the text and analyze its development over the course of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL 9-10.5 Anaylze in detail an author's idea or claims are devloped and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of the text (e.g. a selection from text).

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

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

The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are simmilar in many ways. Which answer best describes the similiarities? A. Both favored representative govt. B.) Both limited voting rights to economic elite C.) Both retained some hereidarty rights to elite D.) Both supported equal rights for women.

10.1.3 Consider the influence of the U.SW. Constituion on political systems in the contemporary world.

When a country's constitution requires the branches of government to stay independent, it is adhering to the principles of?

A.) popular sovernity

B.) separation of powers

C.) direct democracy

D.) federalism

10.1.2 Trace the development of Western political ideas of the rule of law and illiegtimacy of tyranny, using selectictions from Platio's Republic and Aristole's Politics.

Both the United States Constituion and the French's Declartion of the Rights of Man emphasized the idea that governments must

A.) guarentee economic prosperity

B.) equal rights for all citizens

C.)operate a system of checks and balances

D.) support establish religious systems

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

10.5.1 Analyze the argument for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of "total war".

10.9.6 Understand how the forces of nationalism spread to the Middle East, how the holocaust affect the world's opinion for the need of a Jewish state, and the significance of the location of Israel on world affairs.

By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only two African countries to

A.) establish democratic governments

B.) retain their independence

C.) industrialize

D.) colonize other nations

10.7.1 Undertsand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revoultion, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to sieze and maintain control (e.g. the Gulag).

10.7.3 Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Facists and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits.

10.8.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursueing racial purity, especially against European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution and the Holocaust that consumed six million Jewish lives.

The English Philosopher John Locke argues that life, libery and property were?

A.) natural rights

B.) social rights

C.) economic rights

D.) political rights

10.3.7 Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g. poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g. novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.

10.6.4 Discuss the influence of World War I on art and literature and intellectual life in the West (e.g. Pablo Picasso, the "lost generation of Gertrude Stein, Earnest Hemingway).

Which of the following is a political thought from Classical Athens that is central to Western political thought today?

A.) Indiduals should fight against nature and society to acheive greatness

B.) Individual digitnity, acheivement and worth are of great importance

C.) Individual recgonition impedes societal progress

D.) Individuals play an insignifcant role in shaping ideas

10.4.2 Discuss the locations of colonial rule of such nations as Englad, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Portugal and the United States.

10.5.2 Examine the principle theatres of battles, major turning points, the importance places on georaphic facotrs in military deicsions and outcomes (e.g. topography, waterways, distance, climate, etc).

10.6.2 Describe the effects of war and the resulting peace treaties on poluation movement, the international economy, and shifts in geographic and politcal borders of Europe and Middle East.

Which of these are is the main reason that Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, became satillites of the USSR?

A.) These areas were given to the Soviet Union by a League of Nations mandate

B.) The people in each country voted to be apart of the USSR

C.) The Soviet Union army occupied these areas at the end of WWII

D.) Hitler surrendered control of these areas at the end of WWII

10.3.4 Trace the evolution of work and labor including the demise of the slave trade, and the effect of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.

10.3.5 Understand the connection among natural rescources, entrepurnerialship, labor and capital in an industrial economy.

Economically what enabled Japan to become a colonial power after 1894?

A.) Agribultural advances increase Japan's population which forced them to look for more land

B.) Japanese trade wars against the U.S.removed regional competition

C.) Industrialization expanded Japanese resources allowing for military and regional expansion

D.) Japanese were forced to acquire colonies after Asian trade was banned by Europeans.

10.5.5 Discuss human rights violtations and genocide, inluding the Ottoman government's actions against the Armenian population.

10.9.2 Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and the Soviet client nations on the other, indluding influence over such places as Egypt, Congo, Vietnam and Chile.

Which of the following was the primary cause of the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR?

A.) a competion over political influence over countries

B.) direct, armed conflict between the two nations

C.) a deep reduction of military expeditures

D.) the founding of the United Nations