WORLD HISTORY
The student will:
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compare and contrast the Judeo-Christian and classical views of law.
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distinguish between reason and faith.
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examine selections from Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics.
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understand Western ideas emphasizing the rule of law and the illegitimacy of
tyranny.
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explain the principles of government generated by: John Locke, Charles-Louis
Montesquiea, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison.
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chart the evolution of self-government and individual liberties through the
following documents: 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.
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trace the influence of the American Revolution and the Constitution on
political systems in the contemporary world.
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identify the stages of the French Revolution.
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evaluate the causes and effects of the French Revolution leading to the
Napoleonic empire.
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understand how the growth of nationalism was a reaction to the Napoleon era.
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analyze the underlying motives of the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe
leading to the Revolutions of 1848.
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identify the conditions necessary for industrialization.
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understand why England was the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
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identify the causes and effects of the industrial revolution as they relate to
social, economic and cultural change.
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discuss the contributions of inventors such as James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry
Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison.
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illustrate the causes and effects of urban migration.
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analyze the evolution of a labor force.
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describe the emergence of capitalism and the responses to it including
Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
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explore the effects of the industrial revolution on art and literature.
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understand the transition from Classicism to Romanticism.
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explain how the industrial revolution gives rise to imperialism and
colonialism.
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articulate the following motives: the role played by national security and
strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony;
Social Darwinism and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land,
resources, and technology.
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identify the geographic locations of the colonial holdings of England, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the U.S.
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compare and contrast the differing views of the colonization efforts including
long-term and short efforts.
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determine the role played by Sun Yat-sen in China .
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identify the motives behind a struggle for independence in colonized regions
of the world.
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analyze the underlying and immediate causes of World War I.
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identify and describe the military fronts and fighting conditions.
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access the extent to which the entry of the U.S. and the withdrawal of Russia
affected the outcome of World War I.
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evaluate the nature of war and its overall impact on a human condition.
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identify the steps leading towards Armenian human rights and genocide by the
Ottoman Turks.
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evaluate the motives of allied leaders and the ramifications of the Treaty of
Versailles.
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examine Wilson's Fourteen Points.
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describe the causes and effects for the rejection of the proposal to join the
League of Nations by the U.S. Senate.
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illustrate the geographic and political borders of new nations.
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trace the development of postwar economies.
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describe the post war culture of disillusionment expressed through art and
literature in intellectual life.
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explain causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution.
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identify the steps used by Lenin and his Gulag to seize and maintain control.
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evaluate the nature of totalitarianism under Stalin (the Terror Famine in
Ukraine).
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compare and contrast similarities and differences in the rise of
totalitarianism styles in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union.
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describe the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930's.
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evaluate the effects of aggression as seen through the Rape of Nanking and the
Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
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discuss the political and economic failures prior to the outbreak of World War
II.
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identify the location of the Allied and Axis powers, the major turning points
of the war, and the principle theaters of conflict.
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examine key strategic decisions and the diplomacy that followed.
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recognize the importance of diplomatic and military leadership.
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trace the development of the policies that led to the Final Solution.
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evaluate the extent of the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany,
Britain, United States, China, and Japan.
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determine the impact that Yalta had on postwar Europe.
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trace the rise of nuclear weaponry as the Cold War develops.
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explain the postwar American policy to prevent the spread of communism by
implementing the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.
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trace the impact of political and economic ideologies.
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follow the developments in China that led to the rise of communism.
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identify Eastern Block countries' reactions to seek freedom from Soviet
control.
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identify the various factors that led to the demise of the Soviet Union.
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understand the challenges to nation building in the contemporary world.
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include the effects of creating a Jewish state in the Middle East.
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examine the contemporary events of selected regions.
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examine the information age and the role technology plays in today's global
economy.
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