AP World Ch. 29-33
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Smoot Hawley tariff | what is considered to be the highest import duty in American history, resulting in a decrease of 36% in industrial production and a 62% decrease in world trade? |
| parading | what was the response of the European people after news of the beginning of World War I? |
| legally | did the Fascist parties come into power across Europe legally or illegally? |
| bits and pieces | during the Depression, people began to not pay full prices of stocks but rather ________ and _________ of it |
| Soviet Union and South Africa | what are two areas that were actually thriving during the Depression |
| industrialization | what was the first step to Stalin's Five Year Plan to reform the Soviet Union |
| collectivization | what was the second step to Stalin's Five Year Plan to reform the Soviet Union? |
| blitzkrieg | what was the military strategy used by Germany that was also known as "lightning tactics" |
| Invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia | what was the event that spurred the rest of Europe to finally react against Hitler's actions with his new-found army? |
| Lebensraum | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people |
| Axis | What is the term for the coalition alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II? |
| Fear of Stalin | What was one of the reasons that Hitler was granted appeasement by other European nations |
| gold mines | what was the cause of the boom of South Africa's economy? |
| Manchukuo | what was Manchuria's new name after Japan's conquer of the territory? |
| resignation from League of Nations | what was the action that Japan did as a result of the League of Nations' demand for Japan to remove their troops after the Manchuria railroad incident? |
| Rape of Nanjing | the event where Japanese men invaded Nanjing and raped over 20,000 women |
| NKVD | what is the term for Stalin's secret police? |
| Hawaii | which US territory did Japan believe was a "dagger in the throat" |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Where did the cataclysmic US bombing in Japan take place? |
| El Alamein | Which African battle was a German loss against the British? |
| oil and rubber | What was a reason Japan primarily invaded Southeast Asia? |
| Nigeria | which African nation was considered the epitome of European colonialism? |
| Mussolini | Which leader is able to take over Ethiopia the second time successfully? |
| Liberal democracy | Which political system, discredited by its inability to effectively prevent economic collapse or a turn to political extremism, emerged triumphant in the post- World War II West? |
| 60 million | what was the total death toll of World War II? |
| corruption | what was one of the main reasons the Guomindang fell so easily against Mao? |
| Jiangxi | what is the place that Mao and his fellow communists left for after the Guomindang takes central power in 1927? |
| reliance on peasantry | what was the factor that made Mao's variety of Communism so different from traditional ideology? |
| Chiang Kai Shek | who was the leader of the Guomindang? |
| Benito Mussolini | Who was the first fascist dictator? Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini? |
| Du Bois and Garvey | What two Westerners influenced Africans who were interested in politics along with the ongoing educated independence movements? |
| ahisma | what is the term of Gandhi's philosophy of non violence? |
| Salt March | what was the name of the Indian protest led by Gandhi protesting government monopoly on salt? |
| Cardenas | which Mexican leader came up with the National Revolutionary Party? |
| nationalism | the construction of factories in Jamshedpur increase India's _______________ |
| Christianity | what religion is indigenous in Ethiopia? |
| Eva Peron | Juan Peron was elected into office in Argentina mainly due to the help of his wife. What was her name? |
| True | True or False: in 1911, the capital city of India was moved from Calcutta to Delhi |
| Worsen | Do aspects of health care in Africa improve or worsen under European urbanization? |
| Drought | What was the natural weather occurrence occurring in India from 1986-1990 that caused over 2 million people to die? |
| Henry Ford | who becomes the owner of prominent rubber plantations in Brazil? |
| Rhetorical | Rather than focus on action that actually would help Africa achieve their independence, the African National Congress was much more __________, meaning that they only talked and used weak diplomacy |
| personalist leaders | may of the leaders taking control during the revolutions in Latin America were what type of leaders? |
| oligarquia | what was the name of the small group of wealthy land owners in Argentina who were supported by the government? |
| Yugoslavia | Which socialist Eastern European nation was not a Soviet satellite state? |
| 100 Flowers Movement | what was the name of the political operation that Mao undertook to eliminate all opposition by luring criticizers out |
| Ghana | what was the first British colony in West Africa to gain independence? |
| coffee planters | Kenya faced a difficult task in winning independence mostly because of the influence of ____________ _____________ |
| Bandung Conference | the meeting of the non-aligned countries such as India, Egypt, and Indonesia |
| False | True or False: The Cold War was a war that involved DIRECT military attacks between the US and the Soviet Union |
| Korean War | what event jumpstarted Japan's economy after their defeat in World War II? |
| North | In both the Korean and Vietnam wars, which region of the country is always communist? North or South? |
| Oil | Which natural resource or crop have developing nations been able to trade in the global economy on terms most favorable to themselves? |
| Nigeria | Which West African nation boasts the continent's largest population and substantial oil reserves? |
| False | True or False? The Bay of Pigs invasion, which was staged by US Cubans from Florida, was a success and turned Cuba back to democratic control |
| naval blockade | what was the US' military decision after discovering Russia had been transporting nuclear weapons to Cuba? |
| glasnost and perestroika | what two reforms were instilled by Mikhail Gorbachev? |
| Falkland Islands | what British chain of islands does Argentina foolishly try to invade in 1982? |
| Solidarity | the name of the Polish resistance group seeking to free themselves from the Soviet Union |
| Tutsi | What tribe was being slaughtered by the Hutus in Rwanda, resulting in a genocide of over 800,000 people? |
| Cuba | Which Latin American nation stood apart from a general trend away from authoritarian or military rule that had taken hold across the region by the 1990's? |
| South Korea/Hong Kong/Singapore/Taiwan | Name the four Asian Tigers (separate each one with a "/") |
| Kuwait | What country does Saddam Hussein invade for resources and hoping to display Iraq's power for fear of a Shi'ite takeover? |
| capitalism | what does Deng Xiaoping instill upon China's economy after Mao's death in 1976? |
| True | True or False:The Chinese military take military action after students are protesting for a democracy in Tiananmen Square |
| Sandanistas | What faction was the Soviet Union supporting in the proxy war of Nicaragua? |
| Contras | What faction was the United States supporting in the proxy war of Nicaragua? |
| True | True or False: The Catholic Church had supported Poland's Solidarity movement |
| Khomeini | which Irani leader accused the US of being the "Great Satan"? |
| Persian Gulf War | what war was caused by Saddam Hussein's inability to pay back a debt to Kuwait, desire to gain control of Kuwait oil fields, and that the US would not react? |
| Globalization | the growing integration of all the peoples of the planet into a single economic and political model and accelerating sharing of cultural symbols is termed... |
| Saudi Arabian | What was the nationality of the majority of September 11 hijackers? |
| Ho Chi Minh City | the once capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after invasion of the North Viet Cong is now called..... |
| False | True or False? The IMF is responsible for humanitarian efforts including nonprofit and helping people |
| Rachel Carson | author of "Silent Spring" |
| self recognition and incentive | according to Francis ***iyama and "The End of History", what are the two qualities humans constantly look for? |
| Soviet Union | The invasion of which country led to the slowing and eventual reversal of the German blitzkrieg? |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao's campaign to infuse industrial development into the national economy at the commune level was called... |
| Asia | On what continent did the United States fight its two largest conflicts of the Cold War era? |
| Nkrumah | Who was the leader of the first sub-Saharan nation to gain independence? |
| ICC and Kyoto Protocol | what two international organizations are the US NOT a part of? |
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