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| 371028056 | Diseases Associated With Poverty | Malaria: Mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals Chlorea: An infection of the small intestine that causes a large amount of watery diarrhea Tuberculosis: An contagious bacterial infection that involves the lungs, but may spread to other organs | |
| 371028057 | Diseases Associated With Changing Lifestyles/Longevity | Diabetes: Lifelong chronic disease where there is a high amount of sugar in the blood Heart Disease: Narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart Alzheimer's Disease: Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. | |
| 371028058 | Emergent Epidemic Diseases | 1918 influenza Pandemic: Unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world Ebola: A severe disease in humans and in nonhuman primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever HIV/AIDS: Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome | |
| 371028059 | The Great Depression | Economic depression -notable for its duration and intensity that struck the world from 1929-1940. Recovery was a long and difficult process.-began with a crash of the stock market in 1929 ironically, WWII brought an end to the great depression | |
| 371028060 | Mohandas Gandhi | Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England, he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920. | |
| 371028061 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | |
| 371028062 | Kwame Nkrumah | Leader of nonviolent protests for freedom on the Gold Coast. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He develpoped economic projects, but was criticized for spending too much time on Pan-African efforts, and neglecting his own countries' issues | |
| 371028063 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training, he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on, he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights (816) | |
| 371028064 | Quebecois Separate Movement | A movement in the 1960s that involved a national terrorist group with the name of FLQ. The FLQ believed that Quebec should be separate from Canada, and become it's own French-Speaking Country | |
| 371028065 | Communism | A political and economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state. | |
| 371028066 | Pan-Arabism | A movement that calls for unification among the peoples and countries of the Arab World, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea. It is closely connected to Arab nationalism, which asserts that the Arabs constitute a single nation. | |
| 371028067 | Pan-Africanism | Philosophy based on the belief that Africans share common bonds and are a unified people. Adopted this to break from colonial rule. | |
| 371028068 | India/Pakistan Partition | When the Indian subcontinent gained Independence in 1947, its sizable Muslim minority population was given the sate of Pakistan (split into two parts: West and East.) Seeking safety from religious persecution, millions fled: Hindus into India and Muslims into Pakistan. | |
| 371028069 | Division of Middle East into Mandatory States | Formation of states under League of Nations in 1923 under British mandate for Palestine | |
| 371028070 | Migrations of South Asians --> Britain | Increased during 1950s - 1960s | |
| 371028071 | Migrations of Algerians --> France | Mainly During 1960s | |
| 371028072 | Migrations of Filipinos to U.S. | Peak= 1979 | |
| 371028073 | Armenia Genocide | Armenians gave their own community practice their own religion until there were tension and started a genocide - over 25 years 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians killed | |
| 371028074 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | |
| 371028075 | Cambodia Genocide | Pol Pot led Khmer Rouge (communist group) 25% of countries population killed (starved, overwork, and executions) Slave labor in camps called the 'Killing Fields' | |
| 371028076 | Rwanda Genocide | April 1994-Early July 1994; Belgain and German colonizers come, give power to Tutsis who discriminate against Hutus; after colonizers leave, Hutus gain power and slaughter all Tutsis and moderate Hutus; 900,000 killed in three months; international community did nothing | |
| 371028077 | Displacement of Palestinians | 1948, return of refugees from Arab-Israeli Hostilities; Forms basis of Palestinian claim for right to return | |
| 371028078 | Displacement of Darfur | 2004; Darfur Genocide (Sudan) | |
| 371028079 | NATO Pact | NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Alliance formed by domocratic Western nations as and attempt to contain communism. Warsaw Pact-Soviets feel threatened and form a communist alliance | |
| 371028080 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | |
| 371028081 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. (1914-1991) | |
| 371028082 | Cold War Anti-Nuclear Movement | June 12 1982; Americans protested against nuclear weapons & for an end to Cold War arm's race | |
| 371028083 | Thich Quang Duc by Self-Immolation | Many Monks & Nuns marched around in two phalances that denounced the Diệm government and its policy towards Buddhists, demanding that it fulfill its promises of religious equality | |
| 371028084 | Gandhi | Indian nationalist and spiritual leader who developed the practice of nonviolent disobedience that forced Great Britain to grant independence to India (1947). He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. | |
| 371028085 | Martin Luther King | He was the young minister that organized the Montgomery busboycotts and later the SCLC. His "I have a dream speech" is one of themost famous speeches in American history. He was gunned down in1968 in Memphis, TN. | |
| 371028086 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | |
| 371028087 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). | |
| 371028088 | Non-Aligned Movement | Alternative political bloc to Cold War | |
| 371028089 | 1968 Global Uprisings | A direct response to perceived injustices, such as those voiced in Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. | |
| 371028090 | Tianamen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life. (p. 862) | |
| 371028091 | Five Year Plans | Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. (781) | |
| 371028092 | Great Leap Forward | Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years | |
| 371028093 | New Deal | Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression | |
| 371028094 | Fascist Economy | industries organzied into large corporations, subsidized industries and introduced protective tariffs |
