Global Resistance to Established Power Structures

What were differing reactions to existing power structures after 1900?

• All groups supported existing power structures.

• There were both resistance and accommodation to existing power structures.

• No one reacted to existing power structures.

• Existing power structures were universally overthrown.

Mohandas Gandhi led nonviolent marches, boycotts, and fasts to oppose British colonial rule in ______. In 1947, this country became independent.

• India

• Egypt

• South Africa

• Australia

The most prominent African American civil rights leader in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s was ______.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

Which court decision banned forced racial segregation of schools in the United States?

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

Who led the black resistance to apartheid in South Africa and was known for leading nonviolent protests?

• Imre Nagy

• Nelson Mandela

• Alexander Dubcek

• Wladyslaw Gomulka

What was the system of racial segregation codified into law in South Africa in the 20th century called?

• Apartheid

• Brezhnev Doctrine

• Civil Rights Act

• Collectivization

The 250,000-person March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in _____

• 1964

• 1963

• 1965

• 1970

Which event ended segregation in public transit in Montgomery, Alabama?

• A year-long boycott of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama (1955–1956)

• The signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision

Who was the new secretary of the Polish Communist Party who came to power after Polish workers demonstrated against Soviet domination in 1956?

• Alexander Dubcek

• Wladyslaw Gomulka

• Imre Nagy

• Leonid Brezhnev

In 1956, Hungarian protesters convinced which leader to declare Hungary’s freedom from Soviet control?

• Nelson Mandela

• Imre Nagy

• Alexander Dubcek

• Wladyslaw Gomulka