Comparative Questions?

1. What connections can you make between the military governments that took power in South America in the 1970s (see Document 32-1) and the caudillos who rose to power in the nineteenth century (see Chapter 27)?
2. Compare and contrast the place of East Asia in the global economy today (see Documents 32-4 and 32-5) with the place it occupied in the first half of the twentieth century (see Chapter 29). What has changed? Why?
3. How might Gandhi (see Chapters 26 and 29) have responded to Mandela’s defense of violent struggle in South Africa (see Documents 32-2 and 32-3)? What differences might Mandela have identified between India and South Africa to justify his position?
4. What similarities and differences do you see between the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s and the fight against apartheid in South Africa (see Documents 32-2 and 32-3)? How did the civil rights movement shape American public opinion about apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s?
5. Compare and contrast the National Party’s Color Policy (Document 32-5) with the Nazis’ Nuremberg Laws (Document 30-2). In what ways are the two policies similar?