Grade 11: Modern World History - Howard County Public Schools

HCPSS Curriculum FrameworkModern World Historyenvironmental changes, and politicaland economic challenges haveinfluenced standards of living aroundthe world.23. Assess how rapid communicationhas spread culture, including howentertainment, such as movies,music, and television, has impactednational culture and language andcontributed to a “global” identity.(U6LC)continue to live in impoverishedconditions due to factors such as: strainson resources due to burgeoningpopulations, environmental problemsinhibiting agricultural productivity, and thelack of effective management ofemerging political and economicsystems.30. In recent times, rapid communicationsuch as the internet has enabled thespread of information and many aspectsof culture. This sharing of information,ideas, and entertainment has begun tocreate a degree of cultural homogeneityin the world, leading to an emergingsense of a “global identity”.Text resources:TitleSource*The Cold War● “The Anti-Soviet Policy of Communist China”● Modern World History Sourcebook● “China Gets the Bomb”● Modern World History Sourcebook● “Vietnamese Declaration of Independence”● Modern World History Sourcebook● “United Nations: Cuban Missile Debate”● Modern World History Sourcebook● “What I learned in the gulag” A. Solzhenitsyn, abridged ● Modern World History Sourcebookexcerpt from The Gulag Archipelago● “Evil Empire Speech” R. Reagan● Modern World History SourcebookDecolonization● “Statute of Westminster”● Modern World History Sourcebook● Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations● United NationsHCPSS Secondary Social Studies Office, 2012 48