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World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Notes
 Many of the World History NextGen Standards have multiple content areas. Each of the content areas within a NextGen
Standard has been assigned a specific “Topic” number.
o Example
 NextGen Standard 2: Recognize significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations
(Byzantine Empire, Western Europe, Japan).
Each content area: Byzantine Empire, Western Europe and Japan have been assigned a separate
“Topic” number
o Topic 1 = Byzantine Empire
o Topic 2 = Western Europe
o Topic 3 = Japan
o Each Topic number has been assigned the corresponding NextGen Benchmarks
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 1 (Standard 1): Utilize historical
inquiry skills and analytical processes.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: August
Benchmark(s)
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
TO 1
TO 1
Utilize historical
inquiry skills and
analytical processes.
Use timelines to establish cause and effect
relationships of historical events.
SS.912.W.1.1
TO 1
Compare time measurement systems used by
different cultures.
SS.912.W.1.2
TO 1
Interpret and evaluate primary and secondary
sources.
SS.912.W.1.3
TO 1
Explain how historians use historical inquiry and
other sciences to understand the past.
Compare conflicting interpretations or schools of
thought about world events and individual
contributions to history (historiography).
SS.912.W.1.4
TO 1
SS.912.W.1.5
TO 1
Evaluate the role of history in shaping identity
and character.
SS.912.W.1.6
Timelines
Cause and Effect
Units of Time
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Historical Inquiry
Historiography
Analysis
Compare & Contrast
Evaluate
Interpret
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 2 (Standard 2): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations
(Byzantine Empire, Western Europe, Japan)
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 2
Medieval Byzantine
Empire: events,
figures and
contributions
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: August-September
Benchmark(s)
Locate the extent of Byzantine territory at the
height of the empire.
TO2
SS.912.W.2.1
Describe the impact of Constantine the Great’s
establishment of “New Rome” (Constantinople)
and his recognition of Christianity as a legal
religion.
Analyze the extent to which the Byzantine
Empire was a continuation of the old Roman
Empire and in what ways it was a departure.
TO2
SS.912.W.2.2
Identify key figures associated with the
Byzantine Empire.
TO2
SS.912.W.2.4
Explain the contributions of the Byzantine
Empire.
TO2
SS.912.W.2.5
Describe the causes and effects of the Iconoclast
controversy of the 8th and 9th centuries and the
11th century Christian schism between the
churches of Constantinople and Rome.
TO2
SS.912.W.2.6
TO2
SS.912.W.2.3
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Constantine
Constantinople
New Rome
Justinian
Belisarius
Theodora
John of Damascus
Anna Comnena
Cyril
Methodius
Justinian’s Code
Iconoclast
Schism
Justinian’s Plague
Crusades
Ottoman Turks
Mehmet
Suleiman
Theocracy
Iconography
Eastern Orthodox
Roman Catholic
Schism
Excommunication
Missionary
World History – 9th-12th grade
Continued:
TO 2
Medieval Byzantine
Empire: events,
figures and
contributions
Analyze causes (Justinian’s Plague, ongoing
attacks from the “barbarians”, the Crusades, and
internal political turmoil) of the decline of the
Byzantine Empire.
Describe the rise of the Ottoman Turks, the
conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the
subsequent growth of the Ottoman empire under
the sultanate including Mehmet the Conqueror
and Suleyman the Magnificent.
2012-2013
TO2
SS.912.W.2.7
T02
SS.912.W.2.8
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 2 (Standard 2): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations
(Byzantine Empire, Western Europe, Japan)
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 3
Medieval Western
Europe: events,
figures and
contributions
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: August-Septemnber
Benchmark(s)
Analyze the impact of the collapse of the Western
Roman Empire on Europe.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.9
Describe the orders of medieval social hierarchy,
the changing role of the church, the emergence of
feudalism, and the development of private
property as a distinguishing feature of Western
Civilization.
Describe the rise and achievements of significant
rulers in medieval Europe.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.10
Recognize the importance of Chinese
monasteries and convents as centers of education,
charitable and missionary activity, economic
productivity, and political power.
Explain how Western civilization arose from a
synthesis of classical Greco-Roman civilization,
Judeo-Christian influence, and the cultures of
northern European peoples promoting a cultural
unity in Europe.
Explain the causes and effects of the Great
Famine of 1315-1316, The Black Death, The
Great Schism of 1378, and the Hundred Years
War on Western Europe.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.12
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.11
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.13
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.14
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Charles Martel
Charlemagne
Otto the Great
William the
Conqueror
Feudalism
Private property
Monasteries
Convents
Classical GrecoRoman civilization
Judeo-Christian
influence
Great Famine
Black Death
Great Schism of 1378
Hundred Year’s War
Nationalism
Guild
Merchant class
Anselm of
Canterbury
Chaucer
Thomas Aquinas
Roger Bacon
Hildegard of Bingen
World History – 9th-12th grade
Continued,
TO 3
Medieval Western
Europe: events,
figures and
contributions
2012-2013
Determine the factors that contributed to the
growth of a modern economy.
TO 2
SS.912.W.2.15
Trace the growth and development of national
identity in England, France and Spain.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.16
Identify key figures, artistic, and intellectual
achievements of the medieval period in Western
Europe.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.17
Describe developments in medieval English legal
and constitutional history and their importance to
the rise of modern democratic institutions and
procedures.
TO 3
SS.912.W.2.18
Dante
Chivalry
Gothic architecture
Romanesque
architecture
Reconquista
Inquisition
Vernacular
Illuminated text
Universities
Natural Law
Philosophy
Scholasticism
Magna Carta
Parliament
Habeas corpus
Common Law
Tithe
Manor Economy
Simony
Lay Investiture
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 2 (Standard 2): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations
(Byzantine Empire, Western Europe, Japan)
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 4
Medieval Japan:
events, figures and
contributions
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: August-September
Benchmark(s)
Describe the impact of Japan’s physiographic on
its economic and political development.
TO 4
SS.912.W.2.19
Summarize the major cultural, economic,
political, and religious developments in medieval
Japan.
TO 4
SS.912.W.2.20
Compare Japanese feudalism with Western
European feudalism during the Middle Ages.
TO 4
SS.912.W.2.21
Describe Japan’s cultural and economic
relationship to China and Korea.
TO 4
SS.912.W.2.22
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Pillow Book
Tale of Genji
Shinto
Japanese Buddhism
Japanese feudalism
Shogunate
Samurai
Social hierarchy
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 3 (Standard 3): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of Islamic, Meso and
South American, and Sub-Saharan African civilizations.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 5
Islamic
Civilizations:
events, figures, and
contributions
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: September-October
Benchmark(s)
Discuss significant people and beliefs associated
with Islam.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.1
Compare the major beliefs and principles of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.2
Determine the causes, effects and extent of
Islamic military expansion through Central Asia,
North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.3
Describe the expansion of Islam into India and
the relationship between Muslims and Hindus.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.4
Describe the achievements, contributions, and
key figures associated with the Islamic Golden
Age.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.5
Describe key economic, political, and social
developments in Islamic history.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.6
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Allah
Muhammad
Quran
Sharia
Sunni
Shia
Sufi
Iberia
Caliphate
Dar al-Islam
Jihad
Rightly Guided
Caliphs
Khalid bin AlWaleed
Battle of alQadisiyyah
Battle of Yarmuk
Battle of Tours
Calligraphy
Dhimmitude
Islamic slave trade
Ummayyad
Abbasids
Baghdad
World History – 9th-12th grade
Continued,
TO 5
Islamic
Civilizations:
events, figures, and
contributions
2012-2013
Analyze the causes, key events, and effects of the
European response to Islamic expansion
beginning in the 7th century.
TO 4
SS.912.W.3.7
Identify important figures associated with the
Crusades.
TO 5
SS.912.W.3.8
Indonesia
Mughals
House of Wisdom
Cairo
Cordoba
Alhambra
The Thousand and
One Nights
Avincenna
Averroes
Al-Khwarzimi
Al-Hassan
Maimonides
Al-Ghazali
Ibn Battuta
Mehmet the
Conqueror
Istanbul
Selim I
Suleyman the
Magnificent
Sultan
Vizer
Janissaries
Reconquista
Alexius Comnenus
Pope Urban
Bernard of Clairvaux
Godfrey of bouillon
Saladin
Richard the Lionheart
Baybars
Louis IX
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 3 (Standard 3): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of Islamic, Meso and
South American, and Sub-Saharan African civilizations.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 6
Sub-Saharan
civilizations:
events, figures, and
contributions
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: September-October
Benchmark(s)
Trace the growth of major sub-Saharan African
kingdoms and empires.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.9
Identify key significant economic, political, and
social characteristics of Ghana.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.10
Identify key figures and significant economic,
political, and social characteristics associated
with Mali.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.11
Identify key figures and significant economic,
political, and social characteristics associated
with Songhai.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.12
Compare economic, political, and social
developments in East, West, and South Africa.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.13
Examine the internal and external factors that led
to the fall of the empires of Ghana, Mali, and
Songhai.
TO 6
SS.912.W.3.14
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Ethiopia
Horn of Africa
Gulf of Aden
Adulis
Ezana
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Gold trade
Taxation system
Gold monopoly
Matrilineal
Patrilineal
Griots
Ancestral worship
Slavery
Sundiata
Epic of Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Ibn Battuta
Gold mining
Salt trade
Sunni Alie
Askia Mohammad
Cowries
Sankore University
Stateless Societies
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Migration
Bantu Languages
Animism
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 3 (Standard 3): Recognize significant
events, figures, and contributions of Islamic, Meso and
South American, and Sub-Saharan African civilizations.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 7
Meso and South
American
civilizations:
events, figures, and
contributions
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 1
Pacing: October-December
Benchmark(s)
Analyze the legacies of the Olmec, Zapotec, and
Chavin on later Meso and South American
civilizations.
TO 7
SS.912.W.3.15
Locate major civilizations of Mesoamerica and
Andean South America.
TO 7
SS.912.W.3.16
Describe the roles of people in the Maya, Inca,
and Aztec societies.
TO 7
SS.912.W.3.17
Compare the key economic, cultural, and
political characteristics of the major civilizations
of Meso and South America.
TO 7
SS.912.W.3.18
Determine the impact of significant Meso and
South American rulers such as Pacal the Great,
Moctezuma I, and Huayna Capac.
TO 7
SS.912.W.3.19
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Class structure
Chichen Itza
Chicha
Chinampa
Coricancha
Ahuitzotl
Atahualpa
Tenochtitlan
Stela
Teotihuacan
Cuzco
Quipu
Codex
Glyphs
Quetzalcoatl
Welfare State
Terrace Farming
Machu Picchu
Andean Royal Road
Milpa
Monte Alban
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 4 (Standard 4): Analyze the causes,
events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation,
Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Exploration.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 8
Renaissance
causes, events and
effects
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 1
Pacing: October-December
Benchmark(s)
Identify the economic and political causes for the
rise of the Italian city-states (Florence, Milan,
Naples, Rome, Venice).
TO 8
SS.912.W.4.1
Recognize major influences on the architectural,
artistic, and literary developments of Renaissance
Italy (Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Western
European).
TO 8
SS.912.W.4.2
Identify the major artistic, literary, and
technological contributions of individuals during
the Renaissance.
TO 8
SS.912.W.4.3
Identify characteristics of Renaissance humanism
in works of art.
TO 8
SS.912.W.4.4
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Petrarch
Brunelleschi
Giotto
Medici Family
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Erasmus
Thomas More
Machiavelli
Shakespeare
Gutenberg
El Greco
Artemisia Gentileschi
Van Eyck
School of Athens
Perspective
Realism
Humanism
Johann Gutenberg
Venice
Florence
Milan
Martin V
Leo X
Alexander VI
Secular
Annul
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Indulgence
Patron
Utopia
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 4 (Standard 4): Analyze the causes,
events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation,
Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Exploration.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 9
Reformation &
Scientific Revolution
causes, events and
effects
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing:October-December
Benchmark(s)
Identify criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church
by individuals such as Wycliffe, Hus and
Erasmus and their impact on later reformers.
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.7
Summarize religious reforms associated with
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Henry VIII, and John of
Leyden and the effects of the Reformation on
Europe.
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.8
Analyze the Roman Catholic Church's response
to the Protestant Reformation in the forms of the
Counter and Catholic Reformation.
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.9
Describe how ideas from the Middle Ages and
Renaissance led to the Scientific Revolution.
Describe how scientific theories and methods of
the Scientific Revolution challenged those of the
early classical and medieval periods.
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.5
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.6
TO 9
SS.912.W.4.10
Identify the major contributions of individuals
associated with the Scientific Revolution
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Reformation
Anglican
Presbyterian
Anabaptist
Mary I
Elizabeth I
Jesuits
Council of Trent
Counter Reformation
Catholic Reformation
Francis de Sales
Teresa of Avila
Ignatius of Loyola
Thomas More
Charles V
Pope Paul III
Peace of Augsburg
Peach of Westphalia
Francis Bacon
Copernicus
Rene Descartes
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Vesalius
Geocentric Theory
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Heliocentric Theory
Corruption
Predestination
Calvinism
Salvation by faith
Salvation by works
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 4 (Standard 4): Analyze the causes,
events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation,
Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Exploration.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 10
Age of Exploration
causes, events and
effects
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: October-December
Benchmark(s)
Summarize the causes that led to the Age of
Exploration, and identify major voyages and
sponsors.
TO 10
SS.912.W.4.11
Evaluate the scope and impact of the Columbian
Exchange on Europe, Africa, Asia, and the
Americas.
TO 10
SS.912.W.4.12
Examine the various economic and political
systems of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands,
France, and England in the Americas.
TO 10
SS.912.W.4.13
Recognize the practice of slavery and other forms
of forced labor experienced during the 13th
through 17th centuries in East Africa, West
Africa, Europe, Southwest Asia, and the
Americas.
TO 10
SS.912.W.4.14
Explain the origins, developments, and impact of
the trans-Atlantic slave trade between West
Africa and the Americas.
TO 10
SS.912.W.4.15
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Vikings
Crusades
Bartolomeu Dias
Prince Henry
Vasco da Gama
Walter Raleigh
Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
Samuel de Champlain
Treaty of Tordesillas
Line of Demarcation
Christopher
Columbus
San Salvador
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernando Cortes
Conquistador
Fransisco Pizarro
Mestizo
Triangular Trade
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 5 (Standard 5): Analyze the causes,
events, and effects of the Enlightenment and its impact on
the American, French and other Revolutions.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 11
Enlightenment &
Age of Revolutions
causes, events and
effects
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 3
Pacing: January
Benchmark(s)
Compare the causes and effects of the
development of constitutional monarchy in
England with those of the development of
absolute monarchy in France, Spain, and Russia.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.1
Identify major causes of the Enlightenment.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.2
Summarize the major ideas of Enlightenment
philosophers.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.3
Evaluate the impact of Enlightenment ideals on
the development of economic, political, and
religious structures in the Western world.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.4
Analyze the extent to which the Enlightenment
impacted the American and French Revolutions.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.5
Summarize the important causes, events, and
effects of the French Revolution including the
rise and rule of Napoleon.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.6
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Philip II
Don Quixote
Absolutism
Frederick the Great
Seven Years War
Ivan III
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Social contract
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Philosophe
Voltaire
Baron de
Montesquieu
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Diderot
Salons
Baroque
Neoclassical
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Continued,
TO 11
Enlightenment &
Age of Revolutions
causes, events and
effects
Describe the causes and effects of 19th Latin
American and Caribbean independence
movements led by people including Bolivar, de
San Martin, and L' Ouverture.
TO 11
SS.912.W.5.7
John Adams
Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin
Toussaint
L’Ouverture
Estates General
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of the
Rights of Man
Maximilien
Robespierre
Capoleonic Code
Waterloo
Battle of Trafalgar
Congress of Vienna
Enlightened Despots
Coup d’etat
Balance of Power
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 6 (Standard 6): Understand the
development of Western and non-Western nationalism,
industrialization and imperialism.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 12
Nationalism,
Industrial
Revolution &
Imperialism
causes, events and
effects
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 3
Pacing: January
Benchmark(s)
Describe the agricultural and technological
innovations that led to industrialization in Great
Britain and its subsequent spread to continental
Europe, the United States, and Japan.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.1
Summarize the social and economic effects of the
Industrial Revolution.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.2
Compare the philosophies of capitalism,
socialism, and communism as described by Adam
Smith, Robert Owen, and Karl Marx.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.3
Describe the 19th and early 20th century social
and political reforms and reform movements and
their effects in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United
States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.4
Summarize the causes, key events, and effects of
the unification of Italy and Germany.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.5
Analyze the causes and effects of imperialism.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.6
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Urbanization
Capitalism
Divine Right of
Kings
Westernization
Middle class
Labor unions
Colonialism
Enclosures
Crop Rotation
Factors of Production
Stock Corporation
Robert Fulton
Union
Strike
Socialism
Communism
Adam Smith
The Wealth of
Nations
Reform Bill of 1832
Meiji Reforms
Women’s rights
Labor laws
Indigenous peoples
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
Continued,
TO 12
Nationalism,
Industrial
Revolution &
Imperialism
causes, events and
effects
Identify major events in China during the 19th
and early 20th centuries related to imperialism.
TO 12
SS.912.W.6.7
Crimean War
Suez Canal
Spheres of Influence
Western incursion
Opium Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Nationalist revolution
Sepoy Mutiny
Boer War
Laissez-Faire
Suffrage
Chartist Movement
Social Darwinism
White Man’s Burden
Assimilation
Geopolitics
Annexation
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 7 (Standard 7): Recognize significant
causes, events, figures, and consequences of the Great War
period and the impact of worldwide balance of power.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 13
World War I:
Causes, warfare,
effects, German
economic crisis,
global depression &
Great Depression
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: February-March
Benchmark(s)
Analyze the causes of World War I including the
formation of European alliances and the roles of
imperialism, nationalism, and militarism.
TO 13
SS.912.W.7.1
Describe the changing nature of warfare during
World War I.
TO 13
SS.912.W.7.2
Summarize significant effects of World War I.
TO 13
SS.912.W.7.3
Describe the causes and effects of the German
economic crisis of the 1920s and the global
depression of the 1930s, and analyze how
governments responded to the Great Depression.
TO 13
SS.912.W.7.4
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Treaty of Versailles
Reparations
League of Nations
Russian Revolution
Weimar Republic
Total War
Trench Warfare
Submarine Warfare
Mechanization of
War
Romanov dynasty
Armenian Genocide
Balfour Declaration
End of the Ottoman
Empire
Wilson’s 14 Points
League of Nations
Global Depression
Great Depression
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 7 (Standard 7): Recognize significant
causes, events, figures, and consequences of the Great War
period and the impact of worldwide balance of power.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 14
World War II:
Causes, effects,
Authoritarian
governments,
Holocaust, war
strategy
Continued on next
page.
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Describe the rise of authoritarian governments in
the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and
analyze the policies and main ideas of Vladimir
Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf
Hitler, and Francisco Franco.
Analyze the restriction of individual rights and
the use of mass terror against populations in the
Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and occupied
territories.
Pacing: February-March
Benchmark(s)
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.5
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.6
Trace the causes and key events related to World
War II.
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.7
Explain the causes, events, and effects of the
Holocaust (1933-1945) including its roots in the
long tradition of anti-Semitism, 19th century
ideas about race and nation, and Nazi
dehumanization of the Jews and other victims.
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.8
Identify the wartime strategy and post-war plans
of the Allied leaders.
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.9
Summarize the causes and effects of President
Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on
Japan.
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.10
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Holocaust
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Manhattan Project
Winston Churchill
Francisco Franco
Hirohito
Tojo
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Battle of Britain
El Alamein
Midway
Stalingrad
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Iwo Jima
Potsdam
Yalta
Casablanca
World History – 9th-12th grade
Continued,
TO 14
World War II:
Causes, effects,
Authoritarian
governments,
Holocaust, war
strategy
2012-2013
Financial Cost
Human Toll
Superpowers
United Nations
Describe the effects of World War II.
TO 14
SS.912.W.7.11
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 8 (Standard 8): Recognize significant
events and people from the post-World War II and Cold
War eras.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 15
Post WW II & Cold
War, part 1
Communism, arms
race
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: April
Benchmark(s)
Identify the United States and Soviet aligned
states of Europe, and contrast their political and
economic characteristics.
TO 15
SS.912.W.8.1
Describe characteristics of the early Cold War.
TO 15
SS.912.W.8.2
Summarize key developments in post-war China.
TO 15
SS.912.W.8.3
Summarize the causes and effects of the arms
race and proxy wars in Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the Middle East.
TO 15
SS.912.W.8.4
Identify the factors that led to the decline and fall
of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe.
TO 15
SS.912.W.8.5
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Containment Policy
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Cold War
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Chinese Civil War
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan
Perestroika
Glasnost
Detente
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 8 (Standard 8): Recognize significant
events and people from the post-World War II and Cold
War eras.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 16
Post WW II & Cold
War, part 2
Israel, independence
movements,
democratic reform,
religious
fundamentalism
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks: 2
Pacing: April
Benchmark(s)
Explain the 20th century background for the
establishment of the modern state of Israel in
1948 and the ongoing military and political
conflicts between Israel and the Arab-Muslim
world.
TO 16
SS.912.W.8.6
Compare post-war independence movements in
African, Asian, and Caribbean countries.
TO 16
SS.912.W.8.7
Describe the rise and goals of nationalist leaders
in the post-war era and the impact of their rule on
their societies.
TO 16
SS.912.W.8.8
Analyze the successes and failures of democratic
reform movements in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean,
and Latin America.
TO 16
SS.912.W.8.9
Explain the impact of religious fundamentalism
in the last half of the 20th century, and identify
related events and forces in the Middle East over
the last several decades.
TO 16
SS.912.W.8.10
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Zionist Movements
Six Day War
Hamas
Mahatma Gandhi
Fidel Castro
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Francois Duvalier
Jawaharlal Nehru
Iranian Revolution
Mujahideen
Persian Gulf War
Ayatollah Khomeini
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 9 (Standard 9): Identify major
economic, political, social and technological trends
beginning in the 20th century.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 17
Trends of the 20th
century, part 1
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks:
1.5
Pacing: April-May
Benchmark(s)
Identify major scientific figures and
breakthroughs of the 20th century, and assess
their impact on contemporary life.
TO 17
SS.912.W.9.1
Describe the causes and effects of post-World
War II economic and demographic changes.
TO 17
SS.912.W.9.2
Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors
and governmental policies that created the
opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in
Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda, and Darfur, and
describe various governmental and nongovernmental responses to them.
TO 17
SS.912.W.9.3
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Sigmund Freud
Wright Brothers
Charles R. Drew
Mass vaccinations
Atomic energy
Transistor
Microchip
Space exploration
Internet
Discovery of DNA
Human Genome
Project
Free market
economics
Medical advances
Technological
advances
Consumption of
natural resources
Green Movement
Prejudice
Racism
Stereotyping
Economic
World History – 9th-12th grade
2012-2013
competitions
Cyprus
Kashmir
Tibet
Northern Ireland
Libya
Egypt
Syria
World History – 9th-12th grade
Organizing Principle 9 (Standard 9): Identify major
economic, political, social and technological trends
beginning in the 20th century.
Measurement Topics
Learning Targets/Benchmarks
TO 18
Trends of the 20th
century, part 2
2012-2013
Estimated # of Weeks:
1.5
Pacing: April-May
Benchmark(s)
Describe the causes and effects of twentieth
century nationalist conflicts.
TO 18
SS.912.W.9.4
Assess the social and economic impact of
pandemics on a global scale, particularly within
the developing and under-developed world.
TO 18
SS.912.W.9.5
Analyze the rise of regional trade blocs such as
the European Union and NAFTA, and predict the
impact of increased globalization in the 20th and
21st centuries.
TO 18
SS.912.W.9.6
Describe the impact of and global response to
international terrorism.
TO 18
SS.912.W.9.7
Academic
Vocabulary EXAMPLES