Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the limitations on determining cause and effect. Students interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather than solely in terms of present-day norms and values. Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions. The Modern World Students develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Students consider multiple accounts of events in order to understand international relations from a variety of perspectives.
Students analyze the international developments in the post World War II world.
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, the Congo, Vietnam , and Chile. Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty. Discuss the expanding religious pluralism in the United States and California that resulted from large-scale immigration in the twentieth century.