WORLD HISTORY STANDARD 5A
Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of why global power shifts took place and the Cold War developed in the aftermath of World War II.

WORLD HISTORY STANDARD 6C
Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how liberal democracy, private enterprise, and human rights movements have reshaped political and social life by analyzing why the Soviet Union and other communist governments collapsed and why the Soviet Union disintegrated in the 1980s and early 1990s.

SOCIAL STUDIES STRAND 2: TIME, CONTINUITY, & CHANGE
Students should be able to identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.

SOCIAL STUDIES STRAND 9: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Students should be able to describe and explain the relationships and tensions between national sovereignty and global interests, in such matters as territory, natural resources, trade, use of technology, and welfare of the people.