8.7 Global Resistance to Established Order After 1900 Flashcards
Use these 30 flashcards to master Topic 8.7 by tracing how people challenged political, racial, economic, and social hierarchies after 1900. You will practice factual recall, comparison, and AP-style argumentation while correcting common misconceptions that can weaken SAQ, DBQ, and LEQ performance in Unit 8.
What you'll master
- Major causes of global resistance movements after 1900.
- Comparisons of anti-racist, democratic, labor, and gender-based mobilization.
- How local protest connected to global ideological currents.
- Differences between nonviolent and violent resistance strategies.
- Continuities and changes in state responses to dissent.
- High-value AP writing moves for causation, comparison, and significance.
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Topic Intro
Topic 8.7 focuses on how people around the world challenged entrenched political and social systems after 1900. Resistance took many forms, from labor organizing and student demonstrations to antiracist campaigns and movements for women’s rights. In South Africa, the long struggle against apartheid combined internal protest, armed pressure, and global sanctions. In the United States, the civil rights movement used litigation, mass protest, and nonviolent direct action to attack legal segregation, while activists elsewhere drew similar lessons for their own contexts. Reformers often blended local grievances with universal claims about citizenship, dignity, and human rights. States responded unevenly: some conceded reforms, others escalated repression, surveillance, and censorship. Cold War politics complicated resistance by labeling dissent as either liberation or subversion depending on geopolitical alignment. Movements for democratization, feminist equality, and indigenous autonomy also broadened the meaning of political participation beyond formal independence. Events such as Tiananmen Square and anti-dictatorship protests in Latin America illustrate that resistance could transform political culture even when immediate goals failed. For AP analysis, compare causes, methods, and outcomes across multiple regions instead of treating resistance as a single pattern. Strong essays connect structure and agency: economic strain, ideological conflict, media networks, and leadership choices all shaped whether opposition achieved reform, revolution, or partial change.
Why it matters
Global resistance movements reshaped rights discourse, state legitimacy, and political participation in the modern era.
Exam move
In AP essays, compare two resistance movements and evaluate why one achieved deeper institutional change.
FAQs
Why did resistance movements spread globally after 1900?
Industrial inequality, racial hierarchies, authoritarian governance, and transnational ideas encouraged mass mobilization.
Were most successful movements nonviolent?
Not always. Nonviolent tactics often broadened support, but some struggles mixed peaceful and armed strategies.
How did the Cold War affect protest movements?
Superpower rivalry shaped funding, repression, propaganda, and diplomatic framing of resistance campaigns.
What is a strong AP comparison for Topic 8.7?
Compare anti-apartheid activism in South Africa with U.S. civil rights mobilization and state response.
Did resistance always produce immediate political reform?
No. Some movements won later gains after repression, while others changed discourse more than institutions.