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History (Grades 5-12): World History: Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945
World History: Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945
Standard 2: The search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
A. Understands how population explosion and environmental changes have altered conditions of life around the world.
B. Understands how increasing economic interdependence has transformed human society.
C. Understands how liberal democracy, market economies, and human rights have reshaped political and social life.
D. Understands major sources of tension and conflict in the contemporary world and efforts that have been made to address them.
Standard 3: Understands major global trends since World War II.
Source: National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA, 1996
