---
title: "SSWH21: Post-1960s Global Change (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSWH21
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSWH21
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSWH21: Post-1960s Global Change

Examine change and continuity in the world since the 1960s.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSWH21.a**: Identify ethnic conflicts and new nationalisms, include: Pan-Africanism, Pan-Arabism, and the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda.
- **SSWH21.b**: Describe the reforms of Khrushchev and Gorbachev and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 that produced independent countries.
- **SSWH21.c**: Analyze terrorism as a form of warfare in the contemporary world.
- **SSWH21.d**: Examine the rise of women as major world leaders, include: Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, and Margaret Thatcher.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.