New York
New York State Social Studies Core Curriculum Unit Six: A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900-1945), requires that students in the public schools learn about:
A. World War I

1. Europe: the physical setting
2. Causes
3. Impacts
4. Effects of science/technological advances
on warfare
5. Armenian Massacre
6. Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
7. The war as reflected in literature, art, and
propaganda