Ancient roots
20th century bad guys
American clampdowns
Nonviolent toolbox
100
This office in ancient Rome conveyed absolute but time limited power
What is a dictator
100
This former Italian socialist rose to power after WWI when he embraced nationalism, militarism, and authoritarianism
Who is Mussolini
100
Names of a massive wave of repression and deportations in the wake of WWI and the Russian Revolution.
What are the First Red Scare or the Palmer Raids. (A. Mitchell Palmer, a Pennsylvania Quaker, was US Attorney General leading the charge.)
100
The term used by nonviolent strategists to describe the various institutions upholding unjust systems (which can sometimes be removed).
What are pillars of support?
200
A bundle of wooden rods tied around an axe was a Roman symbol of authority
What are fasces
200
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood.. in which a mass-based party of nationalist militants, working with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
What is fascism (as defined by historian Robert Paxton)
200
A Wisconsin senator remembered for leading a post WWII witch hunt for alleged communists.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
200
Strikes and boycotts are examples of this kind of nonviolent strategy.
What is noncooperation?
300
An ancient Greek term for a ruler who gained power over a city state by irregular means
What is a tyrant
300
This general led a successful rebellion against a democratically elected government but couldn't have won without support from troops and air support from other countries.
Who was Francisco Franco?
300
An FBI program to infiltrate and disrupt radical movements such as the Black Panther Party.
What is COINTELPRO?
300
A tool used by nonviolent strategists to identify ways to shift public opinion.
What is the spectrum of allies?
400
This Roman emperor engaged in incest, murder, and gratuitous cruelty. He proclaimed himself a god and allegedly proposed to elevate his favorite horse to the office of consul, one of the highest posts in the empire
Who is Caligula? (The horse was named Incitatus or Swift)
400
The popular name of a 1970s successful movement that overthrew a Portuguese dictatorship established by António de Oliveira Salazar in the 1930s.
What is the Carnation Revolution?
400
Post 9/11 law that vastly increased the US government's ability to spy on US citizens.
What is the Patriot Act?
400
Terms for creating alternative institutions to meet human needs and/or resist repression.
What is mutual aid or solidarity economy