10.4    Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.

1.        Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).

2.        Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.

3.        Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.

4.        Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.

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10.9   Students analyze the international developments in the post-World World War II world.

3.       Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam [Secret War] War), Cuba, and Africa.

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11.9    Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

3.       Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:

• The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Berlin Blockade

• The Korean War

• The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, and disarmament policies

• The [Secret] Vietnam War

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11.11   Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.

1.        Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society.

7.        Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.