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Nonviolence and Peace Movements: Crash Course World History #228 (12:48)

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. 03:18 What major traditions influenced the ideas about nonviolence that were shared by Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi?
  2. 05:04 How did Gandhi’s use of nonviolence specifically confront British colonial authorities in India?
  3. 08:22 What were the main characteristics of the Rosenstrasse protest of 1943, and what made it unique?
  4. 09:33 How did Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr. connect the success of the nonviolent independence movement in India to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States?
  5. 10:37 How did the Prague Spring movement begin and end?