Practise MYP History questions on 12.1 Leadership and Influence and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
Which specific organizational strategy allowed the African National Congress (ANC) to survive decades of repression according to the text?
Which factor influenced the British government's decision to eventually negotiate with Gandhi?
Which historiographical perspective emphasizes that geography, climate, and trade routes are the primary constraints within which leaders must operate?
Which historiographical perspective argues that leaders are primarily significant as representatives of economic interests and class conflict?
The Annales school of history emphasizes which of the following as the primary drivers of change?
Focusing only on environmental trade routes
Avoiding all legal battles in apartheid courts
Establishing underground resistance cells
Relying solely on the personal charisma of Nelson Mandela
The failure of symbolic actions like the Salt March
A decrease in nationwide resistance in India
Global opinion turning against colonial rule
The strengthening of the British Empire after WWII
Structuralist historians
Annales school
Marxist historians
Accidentalist historians
Annales school
Marxist
Accidentalist
Structuralist
Geography and environment
Accidental moments and chance
Class conflict and capitalism
Individual charisma and vision
