BHS Social Studies

○ the Vietnam War ○ Great Leap Forward ○ Berlin Wall ○ East and West Germany ○ NATO ○ the Warsaw Pact ○ proxy wars ○ music ○ culture ○ the Olympics ○ Learning Target #1: (focuses on two examples, educators may use any of the above suggestions.) ■ Students will use case studies involving the Berlin Wall and East and West Germany to identify the reach and implications of the Cold War. ○ Learning Target #2: (focuses on two examples, educators may use any of the above suggestions.) ■ Students will use case studies involving the Warsaw Pact and NATO to identify the reach and implications of the Cold War. ○ Learning Target #3: (focuses on one example, educators may use any of the above suggestions.) ■ Students will use case studies involving the Vietnam War to identify the reach and implications of the Cold War. ● WH Standard 6.6: Students will make a case for the most signi fi cant social, political, and economic consequences of 20th century global con fl icts and crises, such as: ○ human migration ○ genocide ○ poverty ○ epidemics ○ the creation of social welfare systems ○ the rise of dictators ○ the nuclear arms race ○ human rights violations. ○ Learning Target #1: ■ Students will make a case for the most signi fi cant social consequences of 20th century global con fl icts and crises from the list above. ○ Learning Target #2: ■ Students will make a case for the most signi fi cant political consequences of 20th century global con fl icts and crises from the list above. ○ Learning Target #3: ■ Students will make a case for the most signi fi cant economic consequences of 20th century global con fl icts and crises from the list above. NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a world history course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: World History Standard 6 ○ Application of the following skills: ■ Sourcing ■ Contextualization ■ Corroboration