Content Specification - SS.10.5.a.1:
Students will compare and contrast long‐ and short‐term causes and effects for World War I and World War II.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.b.1:
Students will compare and contrast the technologies utilized in both World War I and World War II noting the human and environmental devastation.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.c.1:
Students will examine international efforts to work together to build stability and peace including Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.d.1:
Students will examine the Russian Revolution and the development of Soviet ideology and nationalism under Lenin and Stalin.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.d.2:
Students will examine the role of nationalism and the development of the National Socialist state under Hitler in Germany.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.d.3:
Students will examine the role of nationalism and militarism in Japan.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.d.4:
Students will investigate the causes of the Great Depression and its influence on the rise of totalitarian dictators and determine the common characteristics of these dictators.

Content Specification - SS.10.5.e.1:
Students will examine the atrocities against the Armenians, the Ukrainian Holodomor, and the Holocaust.