Global Resistance to Established Order After 1900
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Driving Question: How did opposition to existing power structures manifest across different regions around the world, and what were the most successful strategies for challenging these power structures?
After World War II, African American soldiers and civil rights leaders drew inspiration from global decolonization, recognizing a shared struggle against oppression. In South Africa and Latin America, people fought against colonial hierarchies and elite rule, pushing back against racism and inequality. What did these struggles share in common? What made them unique?
Learning Objectives
- Explain various reactions to existing power structures in the period after 1900.
- Explain the causes of the end of the Cold War.
- Use close reading skills to consider the effect of liberation movements during this period.
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These song lyrics will help you consider the causes of the Civil Rights movement in the United States and to begin thinking about its global connections.
Want to mix up students’ reading strategy? Have them create questions. After reading a section of an article, students design a challenge question about the reading or how it relates to what they’re learning in class. Once students are done reading individually, they meet with a partner and ask each other the challenge questions. They’re not allowed to use the text to answer.
Histories of the US Civil Rights struggle and the global decolonization movement are often told separately, but these two struggles were entangled. This article argues that the civil rights movement was linked to both the Cold War and decolonization.
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Don’t skip this video! The story of apartheid helps students understand how nonviolent movements have at times brought about historic political change.
The struggle against apartheid in South Africa is one of the longest of the decolonization struggles, and it, too, was also embroiled in the machinations of the Cold War. This video will help you to explore the route the struggle took, and how it connected local and global forces.
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This collection explores both the context of twentieth-century power structures and the ways that people reacted to them. You will hear from both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Osama Bin Laden, from Nelson Mandela and the CIA. We recommend you use the Quick-Sourcing Tool to complete this exercise.
Resistance comes in many different forms and music can be a powerful form of expression.
This article provides students with illustrative examples they can use on the AP exam to explain the various ways groups reacted to existing power structures.
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This SAQ activity asks students to analyze a primary source excerpt and answer prompts about the connection between the Cold War and decolonization. If students need a refresher on how to approach these stimulus-based prompts, have them review their completed worksheets for the SAQ Practice: Unit 6 activity.
If your students need some extra help answering the prompts, share the WH AP SAQ Tool with them.
For this SAQ practice activity, you will respond to one SAQ as if you were actually the taking AP® World History: Modern exam. This should give you a sense of just how prepared you are to respond to SAQs on exam day.
Latin American countries inherited a hierarchical structure from their colonial past, resulting in power shifts between powerful elites on the right and popular governments on the left.
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