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Evaluating the Enduring Legacies of the Colonial Era Today
Synthesize historical evidence and data to draw conclusions about how imperialism and independence movements continue to shape the modern world.
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Decolonization and 20th-Century Liberation Movements
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Examine the causes, leaders, strategies, and outcomes of anti-colonial independence struggles across Asia and Africa in the 20th century.
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Learning standards covered
6.3.1Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe how the conditions and motivations of exploration, colonization, and/or imperialism around the world connect to globalization.
6.3.2Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeUse maps and other data sets to make inferences about the lasting impacts of exploration, colonization, and/or imperialism.
6.3.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeUse primary and secondary sources to draw conclusions about the positive and negative economic impacts of expansion and major global conflicts (for example, Colombian Exchange, economic depressions, rise of factories, effects of famine, slave trade).
6.3.4Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain the causes and effects of at least three events that created political, social, economic, industrial, and/or scientific revolution during the 18th–20th century (for example, the French Revolution, Vietnam, Latin American revolutions, the Enlightenment, independence movements of India and African nations).
6.3.5Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeCite evidence to identify the causes and effects of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.