Authoritarian States
This Chinese leader launched the Great Leap Forward in 1958.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This U.S. economic initiative aimed to contain communism by rebuilding European economies after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This group of students initiated sit-ins to challenge segregation in public facilities.
Who are student activists / SNCC?
This law enforced residential segregation by designating specific urban areas for different racial groups.
What is the Group Areas Act?
This Cold War term describes the division of Europe into two opposing ideological blocs.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This comparison highlights a key difference: Stalin’s rise depended on bureaucratic maneuvering within the party, whereas this leader’s rise relied more on guerrilla warfare and popular mobilization.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This event demonstrated the policy of brinkmanship, bringing the superpowers close to nuclear war without direct conflict.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This organization, led by Martin Luther King Jr., coordinated major civil rights campaigns such as Birmingham.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This organization led resistance to apartheid and was later banned after 1960.
What is the African National Congress?
This South African policy enforced strict racial classification of the population.
What is the Population Registration Act?
This policy temporarily reintroduced limited capitalism in Soviet Russia to stabilize the economy after War Communism.
What is the New Economic Policy?
This crisis demonstrated the division of Germany and the failure of cooperation between former allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This legislation can be seen as a direct response to events like Selma and aimed to eliminate barriers to Black voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This event marked a turning point in resistance and led to the banning of major opposition groups.
What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
This similarity between Mao and Stalin explains how both leaders attempted to rapidly transform their economies.
What is state-led industrialization through centralized planning?
This method of control, used by both Stalin and Castro, relied on eliminating opposition through imprisonment, exile, or execution.
What is political repression / purges?
This development marked a shift from confrontation to cooperation, including agreements such as SALT I.
What is Détente?
This factor helps explains why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful.
What is sustained mass participation and economic pressure?
This leader of the National Party became prime minister in 1948 and oversaw the introduction of apartheid policies.
Who is D. F. Malan?
This factor explains why civil rights protests in the United States gained widespread national support in the early 1960s.
What is media coverage exposing violence against protesters?
This factor explains why Mao’s Great Leap Forward failed economically.
What is unrealistic production targets and/or poor planning?
These two leaders headed the United States and the Soviet Union in 1965, during the escalation of the Vietnam War and a period of cautious Cold War tension.
Who are Lyndon B. Johnson and Leonid Brezhnev?
This film portrays an FBI investigation into a racially motivated disappearance in the American South, inspired by a 1964 case involving civil rights activists during Freedom Summer.
What is "Mississippi Burning?" (1984 film)
This religious ideology influenced apartheid thinking by promoting the idea that racial separation was part of a divinely ordained order.
What is (an interpretation of) Calvinism?
This 1961 event highlighted Cold War tensions in Europe and resulted in the physical division of a major city to prevent the movement of people from East to West.
What is the Berlin Wall?