Browse | Search | Lesson Plans | Products, consulting Training & workshops Purpose | History | Process | Acknowledgment | Reference List of Benchmarks for World History Standard 45. Understands major global trends since World War II   Level II (Grades 5-6)     1.  Understands the causes, consequences, and major patterns of international migration in the late 20th century compared to world population movements of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th     2.  Understands the advancement of human rights and democratic ideals and practices in the world during the 20th century   Level III (Grades 7-8)     1.  Understands the changing configuration of political boundaries in the world since 1900 and connections between nationalist ideology and the proliferation of sovereign states     2.  Understands the origins and decline of the Cold War and its significance as a 20th-century event     3.  Understands the causes and consequences of the world's shift from bipolar to multipolar centers of economic, political, and military power   Level IV (Grades 9-12)     1.  Understands the usefulness of the concept of "postindustrial society" in comparing the late 20th century with the period from the industrial revolution to 1950     2.  Understands causes of economic imbalances and social inequalities among the world's peoples and efforts made to close these gaps     3.  Understands connections between globalizing trends in economy, technology, and culture and dynamic assertions of traditional cultural identity and distinctiveness

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