Facing History's resources will help you meet the following California History–Social Science Framework standards:
10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.
- Core Case Study: Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement (chapter 4)
Focuses on how people used eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate for programs aimed at solving problems by ridding society of “inferior racial traits.”
- Unit: Teaching the Nanjing Atrocities (lessons 2 and 3)
Examines the war crimes perpetrated by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing during World War II.
10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
- Core Case Study: Holocaust and Human Behavior (chapter 3)
Focuses on how WWI shaped and was shaped by ideas of “we” and “they,” and highlights aspects of the war that influenced the history of Nazi Germany.
10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War.
- Unit: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior (lesson 7)
Explores the brutal realities of World War I and the impact of the armistice and the Treaty of Versailles.
- Resource Collection: The Armenian Genocide
Provides background on the Armenian Genocide and invites students to explore the important questions it raises about how the global community defines, responds to, and can prevent genocide.
- Unit: Teaching the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide: For California Educators
Guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.
10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.
- Resource Collection: The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
Explore this rich collection of readings, artwork, primary documents, and biographies, which documents the creativity and catastrophe of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933).
- Unit: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior (lesson 9)
Examines how choices made by individuals and groups contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s and 1930s.
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
- Unit: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior (lesson 18)
Examines the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.
- Unit: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior (lesson 21)
Grapples with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
- Unit: Teaching the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide: For California Educators
Guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.
10.9 Students analyze the international developments in the post–World War II world.
- Resource Book: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Traces Eleanor Roosevelt's development into a renowned human rights leader and her pivotal role in creating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with this resource.
