Content Specification - SS.10.8.b.1:
Students will investigate, compare, and contrast tensions between modernization and traditional culture in Turkey under the rule of Kemal Atatürk and in Iran under the Pahlavis and the Ayatollahs.

Content Specification - SS.10.8.b.2:
Students will explore how changes in technology such as communication and transportation have affected interactions between people and those in authority (e.g., efforts to affect change in government policy, engage people in the political process including use of social media, control access to information, and use terrorism as a tactic).