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Nelson Mandela: Anti-Apartheid Struggle and Democratic Presidency
Evaluate Nelson Mandela's role in the anti-apartheid movement, imprisonment, release, and election as South Africa's president.
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Anti-Colonialism and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
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Examine Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement in India and the decades-long struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
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8.4.6.APennsylvania Social Studies Standards · 8th GradeA. Identify and explain how individuals and groups made significant political and cultural contributions to world history. • Africa (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk, Pieter Botha, African National Congress) • Americas (e.g., Pizarro, Atahualpa, Aztecs, Incas, Montezuma, Cortez) • Asia (e.g., Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi clan, shogun Iemitsu, Commodore Perry, daimyo) • Europe (e.g., Pope Leo X, John Calvin, John Wesley, Martin Luther, Ignatius of Loyola)
8.4.12.APennsylvania Social Studies Standards · 8th GradeA. Evaluate the significance of individuals and groups who made major political and cultural contributions to world history since 1450. • Political and Military Leaders (e.g., Askia Daud, Simon Bolivar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mao Zedong) • Cultural and Commercial Leaders (e.g., Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Akira Kurosawa, Christopher Columbus) • Innovators and Reformers (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Mohandas Gandhi, Alexander Fleming)