AP World History: Modern / Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization (c. 1900–present)
8.7 Global Resistance to Established Power Structures After 1900
Notes
Movements challenged power: nonviolent protest (Gandhi, MLK, Mandela's anti-apartheid struggle), feminism, student movements (1968), liberation theology in Latin America.
Practice
Apartheid in South Africa was:
Ended in the early 1990s.
Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa in:
First fully democratic elections.
Liberation theology linked Catholic teaching with:
Latin America.
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