HIS 100 Module Three Activity Template: Historical Context
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
Iranian Revolution
Describe the historical context surrounding your historical event.
I am focusing on the social perspective in relation to the Iranian Revolution. More specifically,
women’s fight for increased rights. Beginning in the late 19
th
century, women began fighting for
increased rights. The first Shah and later his son, helped their efforts to bring women rights. Such
as, the abolishment of the veil, women being granted the right to vote and being elected to
parliament and senate. However, during the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini and the
government rescinded every law it passed regarding women’s rights.
Describe a key historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
Women played a large part in fighting for their rights as well as during the 1979 revolution that
took them away. Fighting in the streets, starting networks between each other, and starting the
women’s movement in Iran.
Explain the key historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
Women had little rights for themselves in Iran which is why they started to fight for them in the
late 19
th
century. They wanted the freedom to choose in what they wore, freedom to vote, and
other freedoms women across the world had. They wanted the same for women in their
country, which was a motivation for their participation.
Articulate how the historical context caused or influenced your chosen historical event.
The social perspective influenced the Iranian Revolution because a social group, women, fought
in the revolution for their freedoms. During this time, the women’s movement in America was
happening where American women were fighting for their right for equal pay, the right to not
get married, and so forth. Western culture did not know about the women’s fight in Iran, so they
had to fight for it themselves.
Explain how connecting your historical event and current event improves the understanding of
your topic.
Connecting the Iranian Revolution to the United States government not ratifying the Equal Rights
Amendment will give an understanding of how important equal rights having is for every woman
no matter their country. It can give a modern viewpoint on the equal rights movement and relate
it to the Iranian Revolution.
