AP World History Strayer Chapter 20 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 13516650525 | World War I | *Definition:* The war began with the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, rigid alliances led to breakout. *Significance:* New kind of warfare used. It showed that the US can't be isolated. The war resulted in Germany in deep depression and also causing WWII. |  | 0 |
| 13516650526 | Treaty of Versailles | *Definition:* Treaty imposed on Germany by Allied Powers after the end of WWI (not supported by Senate). *Significance:* Established harsh conditions on losers (Germany) that contributed to WWII. |  | 1 |
| 13516650527 | Woodrow Wilson/14 points | *Definition:* American president who created the 14 points/ideas of the League of Nations. *Significance:* League failed but later contributed to United Nation ideals, very respected for his views. |  | 2 |
| 13516650528 | Great Depression | *Definition:* Post WWI, Western capitalism was failing. The American stock market crashed on October 24, 1929 *Significance:* This was one of the reasons that allowed Hitler to gain so much power. The idea of appeasement was created. |  | 3 |
| 13516650529 | New Deal | *Definition:* President F. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression. Combinations of reforms seeking to restart economic growth. *Significance:* Created social security, minimum wage, welfare, etc... It brought the US out of the Great Depression. |  | 4 |
| 13516650530 | Fascism | *Definition:* Political ideology based on nationalism. Focused on purifying the nation while condemning practices that would weaken the nation (like democracy). *Significance:* Nazi Germans use this to have total control. |  | 5 |
| 13516650531 | Mussolini | *Definition:* Charismatic orator, that came to lead Italy (Fascist). *Significance:* He leads the Italian fascist party in WWII. |  | 6 |
| 13516650532 | Nazi Germany | *Definition:* German economy was failing post-WWI so people turned to Nationalist Socialist/Nazi party. (Strong Nationalism). *Significance:* State dedicated to territorial expansion and purification of the German state. |  | 7 |
| 13516650533 | Hitler | *Definition:* Leader of Nazi Germany and the Nazi party. *Significance:* Germany's head of state in WWII. |  | 8 |
| 13516650534 | Revolutionary Right (Japan) | *Definition:* Radical Nationalism dedicated to foreign expansion. *Significance:* Movement in a political life marked by extreme nationalism centered around emperor. |  | 9 |
| 13516650535 | World War II in Asia | *Definition:* Chinese threatened Japan, so Japan joined Germany and Italy. Japan began conquering parts of Asia, while the Western powers ignored until Pear Harbor. *Significance:* Ended with the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |  | 10 |
| 13516650536 | World War II in Europe | *Definition:* German aggression by Hitler caused war as they pursued expansion. *Significance:* Fought by Britain and France and had new infantry, tanks, and air power. |  | 11 |
| 13516650537 | Total War | *Definition:* WWII was the most deadly war (killing 60 million). *Significance:* It exceeded destruction, intensity, brutality, and horrors of WWI. |  | 12 |
| 13516650538 | Holocaust | *Definition:* The outcome of the Nazi dream to rid Germany of Jews. It was the Mass Murder of 6 million Jews and others that Nazis deemed inferior. *Significance:* Haunts Western World even today. Jews were given the state of Israel. |  | 13 |
| 13516650539 | Etty Hillesum | *Definition:* Dutch Jewish woman who wrote about her experiences. *Significance:* She wrote about her experience witnessing the Holocaust. She was gassed and killed on November 30th. | 14 | |
| 13516650540 | European Economic Community | *Definition:* An alliance formed by Italy, France, W. Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. *Significance:* Dedicated to developing common trade policies and reduced tariffs (the European Union). |  | 15 |
| 13516650541 | Marshall Plan | *Definition:* The US way of exercising global leadership government initiative to aid in post-World War II restoration of Europe. *Significance:* Efforts to rebuild and reshape shattered European economies. | 16 | |
| 13516650542 | NATO | *Definition:* North American Treaty Organization. It was a military and political alliance that committed the US to the defense of Europe in Soviet aggression. *Significance:* US vs. The Soviet Union. Another example of US's umbrella of influence. |  | 17 |
| 13516650543 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. |  | 18 |
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Chang AP Language 8A Hotel Flashcards
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| 7387105291 | 星级饭店 | Star hotel | 0 | |
| 7387105292 | 三星级 | Three star | 1 | |
| 7387105293 | 四星级 | four-star | 2 | |
| 7387105294 | 五星级 | Five star | 3 | |
| 7387105295 | 豪华套间 | Deluxe suite | 4 | |
| 7387105296 | 客房服务 | Room Service | 5 | |
| 7387105297 | 前台 | Front desk | 6 | |
| 7387105298 | 服务员 | Service person | 7 | |
| 7387105299 | 订房间 | book rooms | 8 | |
| 7387105300 | 登记 | Register | 9 | |
| 7387105301 | 单人房 | Single room | 10 | |
| 7387105302 | 双人房 | Double room | 11 | |
| 7387105303 | 入住 | Check in | 12 | |
| 7387105304 | 结帐 | Checkout | 13 | |
| 7387105305 | 单人床 | single bed | 14 | |
| 7387105306 | 双人床 | Double bed | 15 | |
| 7387105307 | 大床 | big bed | 16 | |
| 7387105308 | 沙发 | sofa | 17 | |
| 7387105309 | 电视 | TV | 18 | |
| 7387105310 | 台灯 | table lamp | 19 |
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AP Psychology Unit 7B: THINKING & LANGUAGE Flashcards
Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language
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| 13897649284 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 0 |
| 13897649285 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |  | 1 |
| 13897649286 | Prototype | a standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!) |  | 2 |
| 13897649287 | algorithm | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem |  | 3 |
| 13897649288 | Heuristic | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem |  | 4 |
| 13897649289 | Insight | A cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution |  | 5 |
| 13897649290 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |  | 6 |
| 13897649291 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions |  | 7 |
| 13897649292 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set |  | 8 |
| 13897649293 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past |  | 9 |
| 13897649294 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?) |  | 10 |
| 13897649295 | Representative heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information |  | 11 |
| 13897649296 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common |  | 12 |
| 13897649297 | Overconfidence | total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant |  | 13 |
| 13897649298 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited |  | 14 |
| 13897649299 | Intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |  | 15 |
| 13897649300 | Framing | formulation of the plans and important details |  | 16 |
| 13897649301 | Language | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication |  | 17 |
| 13897649302 | Phoneme | (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language |  | 18 |
| 13897649303 | Morpheme | minimal meaningful language unit |  | 19 |
| 13897649304 | Grammar | studies of the formation of basic linguistic units |  | 20 |
| 13897649305 | Semantics | the study of language meaning |  | 21 |
| 13897649306 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |  | 22 |
| 13897649307 | Babbling Stage | beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage. |  | 23 |
| 13897649308 | One-word Stage | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words |  | 24 |
| 13897649309 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | | 25 |
| 13897649310 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words |  | 26 |
| 13897649311 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |  | 27 |
| 13897649312 | Noam Chomsky | United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) |  | 28 |
| 13897649313 | B.F Skinner | pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments |  | 29 |
| 13897649314 | Benjamin Whorf | Concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought |  | 30 |
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AP World History chapter 26 map Flashcards
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| 13250137010 | Algeria | 0 | ||
| 13250143659 | Tripoli | 1 | ||
| 13250149202 | Egypt | 2 | ||
| 13250155541 | Bulgaria | 3 | ||
| 13250160173 | Russia | 4 | ||
| 13250174463 | Syria | 5 | ||
| 13250178269 | Anatolia | 6 | ||
| 13250181439 | Armenia | 7 | ||
| 13250194562 | Kurdistan | 8 | ||
| 13250209102 | Caucasus Mountains | 9 |
AP World History Ch 30 Flashcards
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| 13501416934 | Japan was fearful of | renewed Chinese control of Manchuria | 0 | |
| 13501416935 | In Germany | Weimar Republic had been hard-hit by the Depression | 1 | |
| 13988439798 | Hitler promised to stop the advance of communism and | End economic hardship | 2 | |
| 13988462374 | Both Germany and Italy under Mussolini rearmed and | took part in the Spanish Civil War | 3 | |
| 13988475564 | Under Franco's dictatorship | Spain withdrew from European affairs | 4 | |
| 13988490024 | World War II | September 1, 1939 | 5 | |
| 13988497674 | Europeans and the leaders hoped to | avoid a major war by pacifying Hitler | 6 | |
| 13988566657 | The Japanese | in Manchukuo attacked China in 1937 | 7 | |
| 13988572782 | capturing Shanghai and Canton | took Nanjing and slaughtered it citizens | 8 | |
| 13988575121 | In Europe | Hitler and Stalin signed a nonaggression pact in 1939 | 9 | |
| 13988583979 | Hitler's plans were clear | Britain and France declared war | 10 | |
| 13988590828 | Ally delays permitted Axis victories BUT | when Hitler turned to Russia, victory eluded him | 11 | |
| 13988600591 | The German strategy of blitzkrieg | highly successful | 12 | |
| 13988604148 | what was taken? | Poland was taken in 1939 and much of France by 1940 | 13 | |
| 13988615773 | Germany failed | assault on Winston Churchill's Britain, the Battle of Britain. | 14 | |
| 13988626137 | Germans controlled much of Europe and the Mediterranean | middle of 1941 | 15 | |
| 13988630000 | Erwin Rommel | led German troops victoriously across North Africa, | 16 | |
| 13988642889 | Hitler moved east and then on to Russia BUT | met Napoleon's fate | 17 | |
| 13988648953 | Assault on Russia failed, destroying German army | 1942-1943 | 18 | |
| 13988657518 | German attacks on the Jews | 1940 | 19 | |
| 13988690049 | Hitler complete elimination of Jews and others | 1942 | 20 | |
| 13988704959 | Holocaust | 12 million lives; half of which were Jews | 21 | |
| 13988717081 | Battle of Britain | British war effort for almost two years | 22 | |
| 13988722135 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | US joined | 23 | |
| 13988724427 | Mussolini | captured and killed | 24 | |
| 13988728486 | Anglo-American forces | attacked Germany | 25 | |
| 13988739618 | Battle of the Coral Sea | defeated on Midway Island | 26 | |
| 13988744286 | The US | dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan surrendered | 27 | |
| 13988760507 | What was established? | United Nations | 28 | |
| 13988765345 | Western powers | Control over world affairs was no longer to be monopolized | 29 | |
| 13988773951 | last 4 decades | Cold War | 30 | |
| 13988784034 | 1944 | Tehran Conference | 31 | |
| 13988790059 | Yalta Conference | divided Europe into 4 occupational zones | 32 | |
| 13988799207 | Middle East | old colonial territory was reestablished | 33 | |
| 13988811765 | Muslim League | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 34 | |
| 13988814748 | Jinnah | a separate Muslim state, first president of Pakistan | 35 | |
| 13988821822 | 1947 | British handed control of the subcontinent to the Congress Party in India | 36 | |
| 13988830696 | Gandhi was assassinated | 1948 | 37 | |
| 13988843845 | Muslim rebellions | slow the movement of Jews into the nascent | 38 | |
| 13988847438 | 1948 | UN approved the partition of Palestine | 39 |
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