Global Capitalism, Economic Inequality, and Revolutionary Movements

A set of vocabulary flashcards detailing concepts of global capitalism, Cold War world classifications, civil rights movements, and notable historical political figures based on the lecture transcript.

Extrapolate

To apply or extend conclusions from a specific or national context, such as the United States class system, to a broader international scale.

First World

A term designated by the CIA in the 1950s referring to all countries aligned politically and militarily with the United States and Western Europe.

Second World

A 1950s Cold War classification referring to all communist bloc nations aligned with either the Soviet Union or China.

Third World

A Cold War designation for non-aligned nations existing between the First and Second Worlds (historically including non-aligned rich nations like Switzerland), now used to describe the developing world.

Black Panther Party

An activist organization founded in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton that advocated for democratic socialism, community self-defense, and systematic reform.

Survival Programs

Community service initiatives established by the Black Panther Party to meet immediate public needs, including free health clinics, clothing drives, sickle cell disease testing, and free school breakfasts.

Fred Hampton

The chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party and organizer of the Rainbow Coalition who was assassinated by police and FBI involvement on December 4, 1969, at age 21.

Rainbow Coalition

An anti-poverty alliance formed in Chicago in 1969 by Fred Hampton that organized across racial lines based on working-class solidarity.

Young Lords

A Chicago-based Puerto Rican activist group that joined Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition to fight poor housing conditions and community displacement.

Young Patriots

An organization composed primarily of poor white migrants from Appalachia living in Chicago's Uptown who joined the Rainbow Coalition.

COINTELPRO

A covert FBI counterintelligence program led by J. Edgar Hoover that used illegal tactics, including false imprisonment, disinformation, and assassination, to neutralize activist groups.

William O'Neil

An FBI informant who became chief of security for the Illinois Black Panther Party, supplied floor plans of Fred Hampton's apartment, and allegedly drugged Hampton before the 1969 police raid.

1965 Civil Rights Legislation

Liberal federal legislation aimed at protecting individual rights against race and gender discrimination, which overwhelmingly benefited white women and upper-middle-class Asian immigrants.

Patrice Lumumba

The first prime minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pan-African activist who was abducted and executed in January 1961 following a coup.

Mohammad Mosaddegh

The democratically elected socialist leader of Iran who nationalized British Petroleum's oil fields in 1953 before being assassinated in a foreign-backed plot.

1970s Oil Embargo

An economic action taken by Saudi Arabia and OPEC against the United States due to dissatisfaction with the treatment of Palestinians, leading to widespread fuel shortages and rising gas prices.