Government Standards
California State Standards
Social Studies - Grade 10
Assessment Exam - CA Social Studies - Grade 10| World History, Culture, and Geography | eTAP Lesson |
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| The Modern World | |
| Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman viewsof law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.
CA.SS.10.1.1 |
Western Law and its Influences A New Kind of Government |
| Trace the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, using selections from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics.
CA.SS.10.1.2 |
Western Law and its Influences |
| Consider the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world.
CA.SS.10.1.3 |
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| Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).
CA.SS.10.2.1 |
A New Kind of Government |
| Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.
CA.SS.10.2.3 |
Formulating a Plan for Liberty The Spread of Revolution |
| Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
CA.SS.10.2.4 |
Formulating a Plan for Liberty Napoleon’s Empire |
| Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
CA.SS.10.2.5 |
Napoleon’s Empire |
| Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.
CA.SS.10.3.1 |
The First Signs of Change |
| Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).
CA.SS.10.3.2 |
The First Signs of Change |
| Describe the growth of population, rural to urban migration, and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution.
CA.SS.10.3.3 |
The Spread of Industry |
| Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the unionmovement.
CA.SS.10.3.4 |
The Spread of Industry |
| Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.
CA.SS.10.3.5 |
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| Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
CA.SS.10.3.6 |
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| Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., the novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.
CA.SS.10.3.7 |
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| Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (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).
CA.SS.10.4.1 |
The Need for Expansion |
| 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.
CA.SS.10.4.2 |
The Need for Expansion Colonization of Africa Imperialism in Asia and the Americas |
| 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.
CA.SS.10.4.3 |
The Need for Expansion Colonization of Africa Imperialism in Asia and the Americas |
| 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 andreligion.
CA.SS.10.4.4 |
Imperialism in Asia and the Americas |
| Analyze the arguments for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides ofthe Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism inmobilizing the civilian population in support of “total war.”
CA.SS.10.5.1 |
Rumblings of War |
| Examine the principal theaters of battle, major turning points, and the importance of geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways,distance, climate).
CA.SS.10.5.2 |
Total War |
| Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.
CA.SS.10.5.3 |
The Russian Revolution and the End of WWI |
| Understand the nature of the war and its human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort.
CA.SS.10.5.4 |
The Russian Revolution and the End of WWI |
| Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government’s actions against Armenian citizens.
CA.SS.10.5.5 |
The Russian Revolution and the End of WWI |
| 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 andeffects of the United States’s rejection of the League of Nations on world politics.
CA.SS.10.6.1 |
Peace at Last |
| Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement,the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders ofEurope and the Middle East.
CA.SS.10.6.2 |
Peace at Last |
| Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities,and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.
CA.SS.10.6.3 |
Peace at Last |
| 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).
CA.SS.10.6.4 |
A Different World |
| Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin’s use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag).
CA.SS.10.7.1 |
The Soviet Union |
| 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).
CA.SS.10.7.2 |
The Soviet Union |
| Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their commonand dissimilar traits.
CA.SS.10.7.3 |
Rise of Fascism and Communism |
| Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
CA.SS.10.8.1 |
The Road to War |
| Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
CA.SS.10.8.2 |
The Road to War |
| Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions,and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
CA.SS.10.8.3 |
The War in Europe |
| Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).
CA.SS.10.8.4 |
The War in Europe |
| Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
CA.SS.10.8.5 |
Allied Victories |
| Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
CA.SS.10.8.6 |
Allied Victories |
| Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.
CA.SS.10.9.1 |
Damage Control |
| Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, theCongo, Vietnam, and Chile.
CA.SS.10.9.2 |
Damage Control The Cold War |
| 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 War), Cuba, and Africa.
CA.SS.10.9.3 |
The Cold War |
| Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).
CA.SS.10.9.4 |
The People’s Republic |
| Describe the uprisings in Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries’ resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.
CA.SS.10.9.5 |
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| Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.
CA.SS.10.9.6 |
The Middle East |
| Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.
CA.SS.10.9.6 |
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| Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.
CA.SS.10.9.7 |
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| Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.
CA.SS.10.10.1 |
The People’s Republic The Middle East Africa |
| Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.
CA.SS.10.10.2 |
The People’s Republic The Middle East Africa |
| Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.
CA.SS.10.10.3 |
The People’s Republic The Middle East Africa |
| Analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).
CA.SS.10.11 |
Global Interdependence |
