Unit 8.7 - Resistance to Power

"Nuh uh, i'm non-aligned"

Creation Date: Fri Mar 14 2025

Publication Date: Tue Apr 01 2025

Two Methods

Non-Violence

• Mostly Protests
• Relied on mass cooperation

Violence

• Fight back against state
• Worked multiple times but lead to bloody conflicts and loss of life or critical infrastructure

Nonviolent Examples

• Gandhi & India

  • Peaceful man in India
  • Lead many tactics of civil disobedience
  • Would become inspiration of many others.

• MLK & USA Civil Rights

  • Currently studying this in English class
  • Used protests to advocate for equal rights of all races
  • Ended with the outlawing of racial discrimination

Violent Movements

• Nelson Mandela shift to Violence

  • Sometimes peaceful protests turn into chaos
  • First used peaceful methods
  • After backlash and Exchanged Fire, he turned to violence

• Every single other Independence War

  • I can name every other conflict but you can look in previous unit notes
  • Look at unit 8.5

Responses

Violence and authoritarianism

• Remember what the USSR did to keep itself together?
• Countries such as Uganda, Chile, or Cambodia used military control along with extreme violence to keep power.

Military Industrial Complex

• So the united states invested a heck ton into defense
• After World War II we spent so much in defense we created the largest military industry ever.
• and thats where lockheed comes in
• Drove nations to increase defense spending drastically
• Now drives many present day conflicts

Terrorism as political Tools

Why do we have this

• So many groups seen terrorism as viable strategy
• Governments around the world funding groups for political motives
• Terrorist Attack on the USA intensified military presence in the middle east.