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"Essential" State
Standards:
10.6
Students analyze the
effects of the First World War.
1. Analyze the aims and negotiating roles of world
leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow
Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of United States'
rejection of the League of Nations on world politics.
2. Describe the effects of the war and resulting
peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and
shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle
East.
3. Understand the widespread disillusionment with
prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void
that was later filled by totalitarians.
4. Discuss the influence of World War I on
literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso,
the "lost generation" of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).
10.7 Students analyze the
rise of totalitarian governments after the First World War.
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 systematic violations of human rights
(e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).
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