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National History Standards

United States History

Standard 1: Recent developments in foreign policy and domestic politics.

Standard 1C: The student understands major foreign policy initiatives. Therefore, the student is able to:

9-12: Examine the U.S. role in political struggles in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. [Analyze cause-and-effect relationships]

9-12: Evaluate the reformulation of foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. [Analyze cause-and-effect relationships]

World History

Standard 1: How post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up

Standard 1D: The student understands major sources of tension and conflict in the contemporary world and efforts that have been made to address them.

9-12: Analyze why terrorist movements have proliferated and the extent of their impact on politics and society in various countries. [Evaluate the implementation of a decision]

Standard 3: Major global trends since World War II

Standard 3A: The student understands major global trends since World War II

7-12: Analyze causes and consequences of the world's shift from bipolar to multipolar centers of economic, political, and military power. [Analyze cause-and-effect relationships]

National Council for Social Studies Standards

II. Time, Continuity and Change

Human beings seek to understand their historical roots and to locate themselves in time. Such understanding involves knowing what things were like in the past and how things change and develop.

IV. Power, Authority and Governance

Understanding the historical development of structures of power, authority, and governance and their evolving functions in contemporary U.S. society, as well as in other parts of the world, is essential for developing civic competence.

IX. Global Connections

The realities of global interdependence require understanding the increasingly important and diverse global connections among world societies...Analyzing patterns and relationships within and among world cultures, such as economic competition and interdependence, age-old ethnic enmities, political and military alliances, and others, helps learners carefully examine policy alternatives that have both national and global implications.

X. Civic Ideals and Practices

An understanding of civic ideals and practices of citizenship is critical to full participation in society and is a central purpose of the social studies. All people have a stake in examining civic ideals and practices across time and in diverse societies as well as at home, and in determining how to close the gap between present practices and the ideals upon which our democratic republic is based.

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