COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links:

Document 28-1: Josef Smrkovský, What Lies Ahead

Document 28-2: Student Voices of Protest

Document 28-3: Nick Ut, Photograph

Document 28-4: U.S. Embassy, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Ban on Oil Shipments to the United States

Document 28-5: Jacques Chirac, New French Antiterrorist Laws

Document 28-6: Glasnost and the Soviet Press

  1. Based on the first two documents, how and why did the events of the 1960s turn Western society upside down?

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    Based on the first two documents, how and why did the events of the 1960s turn Western society upside down?
  2. How do the second, third, fourth, and fifth documents represent a broader debate concerning Western political values and global dominance?

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    How do the second, third, fourth, and fifth documents represent a broader debate concerning Western political values and global dominance?
  3. How did disagreements over ideology and generational conflict drive the protests of the 1960s and 1970s?

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    How did disagreements over ideology and generational conflict drive the protests of the 1960s and 1970s?
  4. What similarities do you see between the message and the medium of the Prague manifesto and those of Gorbachev two decades later? Why did Smrkovský’s reforms fail and Gorbachev’s succeed?

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    What similarities do you see between the message and the medium of the Prague manifesto and those of Gorbachev two decades later? Why did Smrkovský’s reforms fail and Gorbachev’s succeed?