Like Connections to the Philippine-American War, this assessment gauges students' knowledge of the past. Rather than measure whether students can simply recall decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will be able to explain that the League of Nations was established as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I. They will also explain that the United Nations succeeded the League of Nations as an international diplomatic organization at the conclusion of World War II.
