Alignment with National Standards

Conflict in Iraq: Searching for Solutions

  Conflict in Iraq: Searching for Solutions addresses the following national standards.

National Standards for Social Studies

Strand II: Time, Continuity and Change

  • Apply key concepts such as time, chronology, causality, change, conflict and complexity to explain, analyze and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
  • Systematically employ processes of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.

Strand VI: Power, Authority, and Governance

  • Analyze and evaluate conditions, actions, and motivations that contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among nations.
  • Evaluate the extent to which governments achieve their stated ideals and policies at home and abroad.
  • Prepare a public policy paper and present and defend it before an appropriate forum in school or community.

Strand IX: Global Connections

  • Explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups, societies, and nations.
  • Analyze the cause, consequences, and possible solutions to persistent contemporary, and emerging global issues.
  • Analyze the relationship and tensions between national sovereignty and global interests.

Strand X: Civic Ideals and Practices

  • Locate, access, analyze, organize, synthesize, evaluate, and apply information’s about selected public issues – identifying, describing, and evaluating multiple points of view.
  • Practice forms of civic discussion and participation consistent with the ideals of citizens in a democratic republic.
  • Construct a policy statement and an action plan to achieve one or more goals related to an issue of public concern.

US History Standards

Era 10: Contemporary United States

  • Standard 1C: Major foreign policy initiatives

World History Standards

Era 8: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945

  • Standard 5: Major global trends from 1900 to the end of World War II.

Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes

  • Standard 1: How post-World War II new international power relations took shape and colonial empires broke up.
  • Standard 2: In search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world.
  • Standard 3: Major global trends since World War II

National Standards for Civics and Government

Topic IV: What is the relationship of the United States to other nations and to world affairs?

  • B: How do the domestic politics and constitutional principles of the United States affect its relations with the world?
  • C: How has the United States influence other nations, and how have other nations influence American politics and society?

Topic V: What are the roles of the citizens in American democracy?

  • D: What civic dispositions or traits of private and public character are important to the preservation and improvement of American constitutional democracy?