World HistoryQ&A by dot point

Explain how the Cold War was fought through proxy wars and crises: the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the space and arms races (Framework Key Idea 10.9).

Explain decolonization in Africa and the Middle East: independence movements, the end of European empires, apartheid in South Africa, the creation of Israel, and the challenges new nations faced (Framework Key Idea 10.9).

Explain decolonization in Asia and the Chinese Revolution: Indian independence and partition, Gandhi's nonviolent movement, and the communist victory in China under Mao (Framework Key Idea 10.9).

Explain the origins of the Cold War: how ideological and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II created a global rivalry, including containment, the division of Europe, and the arms race (Framework Key Idea 10.9).

Explain why the Cold War ended: Gorbachev's reforms, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of a new world order (Framework Key Ideas 10.9 and 10.10).

Explain contemporary global challenges: environmental change and human impact, terrorism and conflict, population pressures and migration, and the role of international cooperation (Framework Key Idea 10.10).

Explain globalization and economic interdependence: how trade, multinational corporations, and international organizations have created an interconnected world economy with both benefits and costs (Framework Key Idea 10.10).

Explain human rights as a contemporary global issue: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the role of the United Nations and movements, and ongoing struggles against discrimination and abuse (Framework Key Idea 10.10).

Explain modernization and the role of developing nations: the non-aligned movement, the rise of newly industrializing economies, and the tension between tradition and modernization (Framework Key Idea 10.10).

Explain how modern technological and scientific change has transformed the world: advances in communication and computing, the Green Revolution and medicine, and their global benefits and challenges (Framework Key Idea 10.10).

Apply the method for the Part III Enduring Issues Essay: identify and define an enduring issue from the documents, then argue its significance and how it has endured, using document evidence and outside knowledge (Social Studies Practices A, B, C).

Explain the causes and methods of nineteenth-century imperialism: how industrialized nations sought raw materials, markets, strategic advantage, and prestige, and how they divided and ruled Africa and Asia (Framework Key Idea 10.4).

Explain the responses to the problems of industrialization: labor unions, reform movements, government legislation, and the extension of rights, including the abolition of slavery and the early women's rights movement (Framework Key Idea 10.3).

Explain how colonized peoples responded to imperialism through resistance, rebellion, reform, and modernization, including the Sepoy Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan (Framework Key Idea 10.4).

Explain the social and economic effects of industrialization: urbanization, new social classes, changes in working and living conditions, and new economic ideas such as capitalism and socialism (Framework Key Idea 10.3).

Apply the method for the Part II CRQ sets: answer the historical context, sourcing, and identify-and-explain questions for Cause-and-Effect, Turning Point, and Similarity and Difference sets (Social Studies Practices A, B, C).

Explain why the Industrial Revolution began in Britain and how new energy sources, machines, factories, and transport transformed production and society (Framework Key Idea 10.3).

Explain genocide as an enduring issue and the postwar response: the Nuremberg Trials, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and later genocides (Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans) (Framework Key Ideas 10.8 and 10.10).

Explain the causes of World War II: the unresolved tensions of World War I, the Great Depression, the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the failure of appeasement, and the weakness of the League of Nations (Framework Key Idea 10.8).

Explain the causes and global effects of the Great Depression: how the economic collapse of the 1930s spread through an interconnected world economy and created conditions for political extremism (Framework Key Idea 10.7).

Explain the rise of totalitarian regimes between the wars: how fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, and Stalinism in the Soviet Union used crisis, propaganda, repression, and state control to gain and hold power (Framework Key Idea 10.7).

Explain the course and global scale of World War II and the Holocaust: the major fronts and turning points, the war's unprecedented destruction, and the systematic Nazi genocide of Jews and other targeted groups (Framework Key Idea 10.8).

Apply chronological reasoning and causation (Social Studies Practice B): distinguish long-term and immediate causes from effects, identify and explain turning points, and analyze continuity and change over time.

Explain the causes of World War I: militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism (the long-term causes) and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the spark) (Framework Key Idea 10.6).

Explain how World War I was fought (total war, new technology, trench warfare) and its consequences: massive casualties, the fall of empires, the Treaty of Versailles, and the conditions that led to future conflict (Framework Key Idea 10.6).

Explain nationalism and its effects: how it unified Germany and Italy into nation-states and how it strained multi-ethnic empires, fuelling competition and conflict (Framework Key Idea 10.5).

Explain the causes and outcome of the Russian Revolution: how war, hardship, and inequality led to the fall of the tsar and the Bolshevik seizure of power, creating the world's first communist state (Framework Key Ideas 10.6 and 10.7).

Explain the causes and consequences of the Haitian Revolution and the Latin American independence movements: how enslaved and colonized peoples used Enlightenment ideas and grievances to overthrow colonial and slave systems (Framework Key Idea 10.2).

Apply the document skills the Global II exam rewards: reading a source line for author, date, and purpose, identifying point of view and reliability, interpreting maps, charts, and cartoons, and recognizing an enduring issue (Social Studies Practices A, C, D).

Explain the causes, key ideas, and consequences of the American and French Revolutions: how Enlightenment ideas, grievances, and demands for rights produced revolution, and the political and social changes that followed (Framework Key Idea 10.2).

Explain how the Enlightenment applied reason and natural law to society and government: natural rights, the social contract, popular sovereignty, and separation of powers, and how these ideas challenged absolutism and inspired revolution and reform (Framework Key Idea 10.2).

Describe the world in 1750: the powerful Eurasian land-based empires, coastal African kingdoms, and growing European maritime empires, and explain how their interactions reshaped global trade networks (Framework Key Idea 10.1).