Exam Formats
What is the subject number and name for our Paper One exam, and what are the two potential topics?
Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and Protest
US Civil Rights OR apartheid
What is the name for the long-running regime of Porfirio Diaz in Mexico, and what are THREE ways his rule led to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution?
The Porfiriato
Social/economic inequality; pan o palo authoritarianism; jefes politicos and cacique privileges; over-reliance on foreign investment; refusing to step down from re-election; etc.
Name two similarities and two differences between the leadership of MLK and Malcolm X, and the groups with which they associated
Dealer's choice
Explain the difference between petty and grand apartheid, and give at least one example of a law from each.
Petty - ground level control of SA's population
Grand - Top-down, systematic categorization, classification, and separation of the races in SA
Name the primary political parties we discussed in Mexico; US; SA
Mexico - PNR to PRM to PRI; PAN and Vicente Fox
US - Democrats/Republicans; Dixiecrats
SA - ANC, SACP, National Party
What is the subject title and number for our Paper 2 exam this year?
World History Topic 9: Evolution and development states, 1848 - 2000.
What are THREE examples of foreign powers involving themselves in the Mexican Revolution?
Woodrow Wilson and invasion of Veracruz
Henry Lane Wilson and overthrow of Madero for Huerta
Punitive Expedition to hunt down Pancho Villa
Germany seeking WWI alliance with Zimmerman telegram
CR Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Little Rock, et al; busing; protest; etc
Name three important anti-apartheid leaders, their organization, and an achievement of each
Dealer's choice
Discuss the attempts at education and social reform present in each of the 3 countries we studied.
Mexico - SEP, education of indigenous populations, struggles to provide universal literacy
US - segregation; integration; failure to fully invest in desegregated schools
SA - Bantu education; system of apartheid; meant to teach low level skills, extend separation and control
What are the names and numbers of the TWO topics we will choose for Exam 3 this year, and what are their topics?
17: Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas Post-1945
Name at least TWO key contributions of Alvaro Obregon and Plutarco Calles in the post-revolutionary Mexican State
Obregon: creation of the ejido system; strained relations with US over defending Article 27 of 1917 Const.; Plan of Agua Prieta deposed Carranza; assassinated Pancho Villa
Calles: Petroleum Law and Alien Land Law protected Article 27 and Mexican interests against foreign investment; created Banco de Mexico and stabilized the economy; passes anti-clerical "Calles Law" that leads to the Cristero Rebellion; oversaw the "Maximato" which extended more development and worker protections
What are the key indigenous movements in the US and Mexico called, and what are some of their efforts?
Mexico - indigenismo, Zapatista land protests in Chiapas (1990s); Subcomandante Marcos y Comandante Esther
US - American Indian Movement - Alcatraz occupation; Wounded Knee demonstration; Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Vine Deloria
Defiance campaign
anti-removal protests
Sharpeville
Soweto
MDM/UDF
What were the driving factors that led to an expansion of democratic reform and participation in each of the three countries we studied this year?
US - Jim Crow segregation; voter suppression; civil rights for marginalized groups
SA - apartheid; not fully democratic unitl 1994
Who is the greatest time-traveling agrarian revolutionary who sees through time and travels through time using the power of his magical mustache?
MUSTACHI-O
What were the FOUR major reforms of Lazaro Cardenas, and what are achievements for each/any?
Land - Banco de Credito Ejidal for lending to campesinos; ends the hacienda system
Labor - Helps create major Voltron Super Union in Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM) and placed Vicente Lombardo Toledano in charge of fulfilling promise of Article 123
Oil - nationalizes the Mexican oil industry and creates PEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos)
Politics - Turns the PNR into the PRM and extends the Presidential power over the main gov't branches
Who are the key figures of feminism in the Americas, giving at least TWO examples of leaders and their movmements?
Dealer's choice
Describe the ideas and leadership of Umkhonto we Size and the Black Consciousness movements
MK - Mandela; armed struggle; sabotage over military fighting
BC - Steve Biko; pan-africanism and black empowerment; killed by police
Name ways that each of the three countries we studied had to address foreign policy and intervention as their democracies developed
Mex - oil nationalism; US meddling and investment; NAFTA and the opening of the Mex economy
US - Cold War politics in relation to Jim Crow segregation
SA - international pressure and tribunals to eradicate apartheid; MDM, UDF, Mandela instrumental in calling to the int'l community
YES
What are the two most important Articles in the Constitution of 1917 (that we covered) and what did they guarantee?
Article 27: rights to private property and took land away from the Catholic Church
Article 123: guaranteed rights to laborers such as maximum work hours, minimum wage, and contract bargaining
Dealer's choice
Name the important leaders, events, and results in the fall of apartheid in SA
de Klerk
Mandela
Election of 1994
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Give an example of a domestic crisis and an international crisis faced by each of the countries we studied, and how their government addressed it.
Dealer's choice