Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.16e
The Standard
- SS24.WH.16
- Analyze the causes and effects of both regional and internal conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Describe the influence of internal conflict, nationalism, and factional enmity in various nations and regions.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how nationalist movements and rival groups can fuel conflict within a country. They compare cases in different regions and describe what happened to people and governments.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how nationalist leaders contributed to Yugoslavia's breakup and how extremist Hutu leaders fueled the genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda. They can name a result in each case and support it with a fact from a map or short source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat nationalism as simple love of country or assume ethnic groups have always hated each other. Some may wrongly say all Hutu people participated in the genocide against Tutsi people.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, explain how nationalist appeals contributed to Yugoslavia's breakup and how extremist leaders exploited group hostility in Rwanda. Name one result for each case.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs 1990 and 2000 Balkans maps plus a refugee map; have them mark border changes and one flight route.
Read short accounts of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, then discuss how leaders used group identity to justify violence.
Sort six Yugoslavia and Rwanda event cards into leader appeals, armed conflict, or consequences, then explain two choices.
On a UNHCR Sudan refugee map, trace one route into Chad and note how fighting between armed factions forced people to leave.
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