California State Content Standards

You Selected: The Radio Project: Does History Repeat Itself?

History/Social Science 1.1: Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons that were learned.

History/Social Science 2.3: Students evaluate major debates among historians concerning alternative interpretations of the past, including an analysis of authors' use of evidence and the distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplifications.

History/Social Science 2.4: Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.

History/Social Science 3.1: Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments.

History/Social Science 3.2: Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the limitations on determining cause and effect.

History/Social Science 3.4: Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions.

History/Social Science 10.4.2: Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.

History/Social Science 10.4.3: Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.

History/Social Science 10.4.4: Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.

History/Social Science 10.8.2: Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

History/Social Science 10.8.5: Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

History/Social Science 10.8.6: Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.

History/Social Science 10.10.2: Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.

History/Social Science 10.10.3: Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.