According to the California Standards students in grades 10 and 11 are required to compare, analyze, understand, discuss, explain, examine, trace and describe various aspects of 20^th century history. The relevant standards are listed below:

10.9 Students analyze the international developments   in the post-World World War II world.

Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.

Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.

Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.

Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China ( e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).

Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.

Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects  of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.

Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.

Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.

10.11 Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, and computers).

11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America.

Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.

Discuss forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and artistic styles).

11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World   War II.

Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:

The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting

The Truman Doctrine

The Berlin Blockade

The Korean War

The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, and disarmament policies

The Vietnam War

Latin American policy

11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans' service in World War II produced a stimulus   for President Truman's decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.

Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.

Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" speech.

Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban  North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.

11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.

Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure.

Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal.