To prepare for this Discussion:
- Review the Lukacs, Nimtz, and Gould readings in our Learning Resources.
- Review the L’Unita interview with Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende’s speech from this week’s Learning Resources.
- With this week’s reading in mind, consider the various nationalist struggles for independence that followed in the post – World War II era.
- Recall the challenges that the new leaders faced as civil rights movements increased.
- Reflect upon poverty-stricken nations and what they might have endured in their quest for social change.
- Correlate postwar industrialization, revolutionary, and civil rights movements in both North and South America.
- Consider the struggles faced in North and South America. How were they different? Similar?
With these thoughts in mind:
By Day 3
Post by Day 3 an analysis (3–4 paragraphs) comparing revolutionary and civil rights movements in the United States and Latin America and the extent to which the changes desired by the people were or were not achieved and why.
- Be sure to support your ideas by properly citing at least one of week’s Learning Resources, in APA format, within your initial post. As this is a post-first discussion board, you will not be able to see the work of your peers until you have posted the initial discussion requirement for the
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
By Day 5
Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing question.
- Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
- Offer and support an opinion.
- Validate an idea with your own experience.
- Make a suggestion.
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Lukacs, J. (2013). A short history of the twentieth century.
- Read Chapters 12, 13 and 15.
- Read Chapters 14 and 15.
Castro Internet Archive. (2000). L’Unita interview with Fidel Castro: The nature of Cuban socialism.
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