Grade 11: Modern World History - Howard County Public Schools

HCPSS Curriculum FrameworkModern World HistoryWorld War II. (U5LF)21. Analyze how the policies ofappeasement and nonaggression bynations and the failure of the Leagueof Nations led to continuedaggression. (U5LF)22. Explain the major turning points of thewar and describe the principaltheaters of conflict in Europe, Africa,and Asia. (U5LG)23. Explain the reasons for the droppingof atomic bombs on Japan and itsshort and long-term effects. (U5LG)24. Assess how the political anddiplomatic leadership of suchindividuals as Churchill, Roosevelt,Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin affectedthe outcome of the war. (U5LG)25. Compare the impact of World War IIon women and civilians in countriessuch as the United States and theSoviet Union. (U5LG)26. Analyze the atrocities committedagainst civilians during World War II,including the Holocaust in Europe andthe Rape of Nanking in China.(U5LG)27. Compare World War I and World War●●●●●●imperialismLeague ofNationsNazismnonaggressionreparationstotalitarian23. World War II was the most extensivewar ever fought, and it extended to allof the major seas and the continentsof Africa, Asia, and Europe.24. The Allies faced difficulty in the earlyyears of the war while the AxisPowers, were more successful in theirquest for empire.25. By 1943, after a series of Germandefeats in Eastern Europe and U.S.victories in the Pacific, the AxisPowers lost their advantage.26. The war eventually ended with theseparate Allied victories overGermany and Japan, both in 1945.27. Atrocities committed during the eraawoke the world to a new sense ofhumanitarianism.28. Economically, many countries werehard-hit by the destruction of war andconcentrated on trying to rebuild theirindustries and economies.29. Imperialistic countries felt thechanges as the countries in Asia andAfrica, who had also activelyparticipated in the fighting, worked fordecolonization.30. The United Nations was establishedto prevent future conflicts.31. The United States and the U.S.S.R.emerged as rival superpowers, withthe tensions between them beginningan era known as the Cold War.HCPSS Secondary Social Studies Office, 2012 40