6332312062 | Period 6 | Acclerating Global Change and Realignments. 1900 to present | 0 | |
6332312065 | Green Revolution | Spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture | 1 | |
6332312066 | Scientific & tech advances | Led to huge population growth, altering the environment & threatened ecological balances | 2 | |
6332312067 | New communication & transport | Eliminated problems of geographic distance | 3 | |
6332312068 | Climate change | Releases of greenhouse gases & pollutants- causes of this? | 4 | |
6332312069 | Malaria, cholera | Continuity- diseases of poverty | 5 | |
6332312070 | Ebola, HIV/AIDS | Change- new epidemics & threats to survival | 6 | |
6332312064 | Oil & nuclear power | Energy technology which raised productivity & increased production of material goods | 7 | |
6332312071 | Diabetes, heart disease | Change- lifestyles and people living longer led to more of certain diseases | 8 | |
6351164522 | Holocaust | During WW II, German Nazis killed about 6 million Jews, act of genocide | 9 | |
6332312072 | Effective birth control | Change- Women gained greater control over fertility & changed sexual practices | 10 | |
6332312073 | Tanks, airplanes | Improved military technology | 11 | |
6332312074 | Trench warfare | New military tactic in WWI | 12 | |
6332312075 | Status quo | The way things are now | 13 | |
6332714739 | Secessionist movement | Act of separating from a nation or state. Becoming independent | 14 | |
6332312063 | Medical innovations | Polio vaccine, antibiotics, artificial heart | 15 | |
6332714740 | Stagnation | Lack of activity, growth or development | 16 | |
6332714741 | Angola | African nation which gained independence through armed struggle from Portugal in 1975 | 17 | |
6332714742 | Pan-Arabism | Opposing Western political involvement in Arab world. Arabian nationalism. People uniting across national boundaries | 18 | |
6332714743 | Pan-Africanism | Meant to encourage bonds between people of African descent. Uniting people across national boundaries | 19 | |
6332714744 | Metropole | Large cities in the home country of a colony | 20 | |
6354270860 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Led Muslim religious movement, challenging British colonial rule in India. Campaigned for an independent Muslim country after India's independence. Founded Pakistan in 1947 | 21 | |
6351164523 | Secular | Non-religious. Not affiliated with a church or faith | 22 | |
6351164524 | Great Depression | Severe worldwide economic collapse beginning about October 1929 | 23 | |
6351164525 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization- Military alliance. 28 member countries | 24 | |
6353620819 | Total war | Not just the military engage in war, but everyone. A nation commits all resources to the war effort. Civilians including women work in factories producing war materials | 25 | |
6353650631 | Casualty | A person killed or injured in a war or accident | 26 | |
6353676812 | regime | A form of government, such as a communist regime or democratic regime | 27 | |
6353690603 | Ottoman Empire | Land-based empire collapses during WWI, becomes smaller Republic of Turkey in 1923 | 28 | |
6353899777 | Russian Revolution | Caused by political & social discontent. WWI led this already unstable nation into more chaos. 300 yr old Romanov dynasty collapsed. 1917 | 29 | |
6353944655 | Qing Dynasty | Collapsed 1911. Last Chinese dynasty. Western intervention weakened isolated and backward government | 30 | |
6354030012 | Zionist | Movement to support a Jewish state in Palestine near Jerusalem. After WWI, European Jews moved to area, then controlled by British | 31 | |
6354050950 | Balfour Declaration | Issued by Britain in 1917 stating that Palestine should become permanent home for European Jews | 32 | |
6354131792 | Indian National Congress | Formed in 1885 in effort to challenge British imperial rule. By 1920s, was led by Ghandi. | 33 | |
6354218152 | Ho Chi Minh | Nationalist leader in Vietnam who challenged French imperial rule eventually leading to independence in 1954 | 34 | |
6366569915 | Atomic Bomb | Change- improved military technology. Used during WWII by US against Japan | 35 | |
6366569916 | Nanjing | Former Chinese capital- attacked by Japan during 1937 leading to increased wartime casualties | 36 | |
6371246934 | Québécois Separatist | Quebec (French Canadian) province challenges inherited imperial boundaries. Began in 1830s. Reemerge in 1960s. Movement desires to be separated from Canada | 37 | |
6371394547 | Hiroshima | Atomic bomb dropped on this city & Nagasaki by the US. The two bombings resulted in at least 129,000 deaths. Six days later Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945 | 38 | |
6371394548 | Dresden | German city attacked by British & US forces during WWII. February 1945. Estimated 25,000 deaths. | 39 |
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