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AP World History Chapter 5 Flashcards
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| 8454167104 | Which of the following best describes the degree of contact between the Roman and Han Empires? | Roman and Han Chinese citizens never met each other directly, but there was an indirect economic connection via the silk roads. | 0 | |
| 8454167105 | In early Roman society, the basis of wealth was..... | the land | 1 | |
| 8454167106 | During the Roman Republic, all adult male citizens had the right to vote | But the votes were weighed so that the votes of the wealthy men counted for more. | 2 | |
| 8454167107 | The term for Roman senators was.... | life | 3 | |
| 8454167108 | In early Rome, Roman women were legally | Considered children | 4 | |
| 8454167109 | Which of the following provides the most convincing explanation for Rome's expansion? | The Romans feared an attack and so wanted a buffer zone. | 5 | |
| 8454167110 | Why did people during the time of the Roman Republic become dependent on expensive imported grain? | Large landowners preferred to graze cattle or grow cash crops | 6 | |
| 8454167111 | The missionary career of the Apostle Paul..... | Exemplifies the cosmopolitan nature of the Roman Empire | 7 | |
| 8454167112 | Romanization in provinces occurred because | Provincials adopted Roman customs since language and culture provided advantages | 8 | |
| 8454167113 | Aqueducts worked with the aid of.... | Gravity | 9 | |
| 8454167114 | Why did the people of the Late Roman Empire revert to a barter economy? | The emperors were cutting back on the precious metals in the coins, thereby causing them to be devalued | 10 | |
| 8454167115 | Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople? | There were few educated people in the eastern Roman Empire, so there was more opportunity to gain new converts | 11 | |
| 8454167116 | Why did the majority of the Chinese population during the Han dynasty live in Eastern China? | The best farmland was concentrated in eastern China | 12 | |
| 8454167117 | Roads were originally built in Rome and China to | Move troops | 13 | |
| 8454167118 | When the Han took over, they...... | Retained the Qin system with minor modifications | 14 | |
| 8454167119 | China's most valuable commodity was | Silk and salt are mentioned in the book but the answer is Salt. | 15 | |
| 8454167120 | Which of the following does NOT represent one way in which the Chinese tried to control nomadic? | They tried to reason with the nomads , citing the Buddhist principles of nonviolence | 16 | |
| 8454167121 | All of the following were reasons that centralized political rule reemerged in China but not in Europe after this period EXCEPT..... | The Wall of China symbolized the necessity of a single emperor to coordinate defense from attacks by nomadic people | 17 |
AP World History Vocabulary 1900-Present Flashcards
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| 13930234361 | May fourth movement | a 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence | 0 | |
| 13930234362 | Tehran conference | a 1943 meeting of leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union; it agreed on the opening of a second front in France | 1 | |
| 13930234363 | Potsdam conference | a 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in which it was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation | 2 | |
| 13930234364 | Geneva Conference | a 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventh parallel | 3 | |
| 13930234365 | Helsinki accords | a 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by Western European countries and the Soviet Union | 4 | |
| 13930234366 | cultural revolution | a Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers. | 5 | |
| 13930234367 | European Economic Community | A Common Market organized in 1958 which reduced tariffs among member nations and created a common tariff policy for other world nations | 6 | |
| 13930234368 | Spanish civil war | a conflict from 1936-1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces | 7 | |
| 13930234369 | Kabuki theater | a form of Japanese theater developed in the 17th century that features colorful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of acting | 8 | |
| 13930234370 | Coalition | a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties | 9 | |
| 13930234371 | Yalta conference | a meeting of the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States in 1945; the Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan in exchange for influence in the Eastern European states. The Yalta Conference also made plans for the establishment of a new international organization. | 10 | |
| 13930234372 | Iron curtain | a metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe | 11 | |
| 13930234373 | Welfare state | a nation in which the government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens | 12 | |
| 13930234374 | British commonwealth | A political community consisting of the United Kingdom, its dependencies, and former colonies of Great Britain that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwelath of Nations | 13 | |
| 13930234375 | Fascism | a political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights | 14 | |
| 13930234376 | Alliance for progress | a program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for pledge to establish democratic institutions; part of U.S. President Kennedy's international program | 15 | |
| 13930234377 | Pan-Slavic movement | A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia. | 16 | |
| 13930234378 | Cubism | a school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms. | 17 | |
| 13930234379 | Al-Qaeda | a terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late 20th and early 21st centuries | 18 | |
| 13930234380 | Ayatollah | a traditional Muslim religious ruler | 19 | |
| 13930234381 | Russification | a tsarist program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia | 20 | |
| 13930234382 | Mandate | a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after WWI | 21 | |
| 13930234383 | Marshall plan | a U.S. plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of Western Europe after WWII | 22 | |
| 13930234384 | international space station | a vehicle sponsored by 16 nations that circles the earth while carrying out experiments | 23 | |
| 13930234385 | Berlin wall | a wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin | 24 | |
| 13930234386 | world bank | an agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development | 25 | |
| 13930234387 | import substitution industrialization | an economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports | 26 | |
| 13930234388 | World Trad Organization | an international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade | 27 | |
| 13930234389 | International Monetary fund | an international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade | 28 | |
| 13930234390 | European Union | an organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community. | 29 | |
| 13930234391 | North American Free Trade Organization | an organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada (NAFTA) | 30 | |
| 13930234392 | Guomindang | China's Nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles; in 1925, the party was taken over by Jiang Jieshi, who made it into a more authoritarian party. | 31 | |
| 13930234393 | containment | Cold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism | 32 | |
| 13930234394 | government of India Act | the British law passed in 1935 which increased suffrage and turned provincial governments over to Indian leaders | 33 | |
| 13930234395 | central powers | in WWI, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies | 34 | |
| 13930234396 | Allied powers | in WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers; in WWII, the group of nations including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers | 35 | |
| 13930234397 | League of nations | international organization founded after WWI to promote peace and cooperation among nations | 36 | |
| 13930234398 | service industries | occupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product | 37 | |
| 13930234399 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | Organization formed in 1950 by oil-producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices (OPEC) | 38 | |
| 13930234400 | evangelical | pertaining to preaching the Gospel (the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative Christians. | 39 | |
| 13930234401 | five year plans | plans for industrial production first introduced in the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s | 40 | |
| 13930234402 | Appeasement | policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions in Hitler in the 1930s | 41 | |
| 13930234403 | Kulaks | Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy | 42 | |
| 13930234404 | Afrikaners | South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in south Africa in the 17th century | 43 | |
| 13930234405 | Hubble space telescope | Telescope able to peer deep into space | 44 | |
| 13930234406 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | the 1918 treaty ending WWI between Germany and the Soviet Union | 45 | |
| 13930234407 | Treaty of Versailles | the 1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied nations; it blamed the war on Germany and assessed heavy reparations and large territorial losses on the part of Germany | 46 | |
| 13930234408 | Glasnost | the 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union | 47 | |
| 13930234409 | Persian gulf war | the 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S. led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion | 48 | |
| 13930234410 | Deoxyribonucleic acid | the blueprint of heredity | 49 | |
| 13930234411 | No theater | the classical Japanese drama with music and dances performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed actors | 50 | |
| 13930234412 | Brinkmanship | the Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on the part of either power | 51 | |
| 13930234413 | Collectivization | the combination of several small farms into a large government controlled farm | 52 | |
| 13930234414 | Great leap forward | the diasastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communities | 53 | |
| 13930234415 | Sputnik | the first man-made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union | 54 | |
| 13930234416 | Anschluss | the German annexation of Austria prior to WWII | 55 | |
| 13930234417 | United Nations | the international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations | 56 | |
| 13930234418 | Holocaust | the Nazi program during WWII that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable | 57 | |
| 13930234419 | Reparations | the payment of war debts by the losing side | 58 | |
| 13930234420 | Great depression | the severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world | 59 | |
| 13930234421 | Apartheid | the South African policy of separation of the races | 60 | |
| 13930234422 | McDonaldization | the spread of American culture and values around the world | 61 | |
| 13930234423 | Euro | the standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002 | 62 | |
| 13930234424 | Genocide | the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 63 | |
| 13930234425 | Cold war | the tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II | 64 | |
| 13930234426 | Mass consumerism | trade in products designed to appeal to a global market | 65 | |
| 13930234427 | National Organization For Women | U.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights | 66 | |
| 13930234428 | New Deal | U.S. President Roosevelt's program to relieve the economic problems of the Great Depression; it increased government involvement in the society of the United States | 67 | |
| 13930234429 | Cartels | Unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods | 68 | |
| 13930234430 | Korean Conflict | Wars between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United States | 69 | |
| 13930234431 | Cuban missile crisis | When in 1962, the Soviets constructed nuclear missiles in Cuba which brought days of tense confrontation between Khrushchev and the U.S. President Kennedy. Khrushchev ultimately backed down, and the missiles were removed. | 70 |
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AP World History Chapter 27 The Fall of Communism Flashcards
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| 13288185878 | Georgy Malenkov | He was the immediate successor of Stalin; member of the Politburo that tried to abolish Stalin's method of rule and improve the standard of living (New Course). He also tried to improve relations with the West | 0 | |
| 13288187988 | KGB | Also known as the Committee on Government Security, they didn't approve of Georgy Malenkov's plan and decided to replace him with Nikita Khrushchev. | 1 | |
| 13288194823 | Nikita Khrushchev | Also known as "Cornman" was the new leader of the soviet union after Malenkov. He tried to renovate the agricultural sectors by opening new lands and providing incentives. He also attempted to split up the communist party but was met with opposition. Though these changes hurt the USSR's economy more than helping it, he wasn't a complete failure because he began de-stalinization. Still a cool dude. | 2 | |
| 13288268566 | De-Stalinization | This was a campaign of Khrushchev's that followed the Secret Speech. He allowed for more freedom of speech, reduced police violence, and released thousands from concentration camps! Soviet Russia finally understands that Stalin was a crappy guy!!! | 3 | |
| 13288317131 | Leonid Brezhnev | He began his career by kicking Khrushchev out of office by calling him old and forcing him to retire with the support of the politburo. smooth moves. He then went on to reverse many of the changes that Khrushchev made which made the economy even worse than it was before | 4 | |
| 13296152619 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. He was a born peasant and studied law. He also worked to improve agriculture and economic initiative. | 5 | |
| 13296459551 | Perestroika | Or "Restructuring". A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 6 | |
| 13296461801 | Glasnost | Also called "Openness". A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev which allowed for more freedom of the press and speech in discussing problems with the soviet union. This caused reports of corruption and the chernobyl disaster to incite revolts of the public. However, it did allow for more religious activities, art, and western music. This policy caused ethnic problems within the social structure. | 7 | |
| 13296683113 | Boris Yeltsin | He was president of Russia at the time the USSR was splitting into a commonwealth of independent states. | 8 | |
| 13297756969 | Solidarity Movement | Independent trade movement of Poland breaking free from Russia. It protested high food costs | 9 | |
| 13297761905 | Lech Walesa | He led the solidarity movement and became president of Poland after the government allowed free national elections there. | 10 | |
| 13297871219 | Communism with a capitalist face-lift | This was a hungarian economic reform brought by Janos Kadar, however it failed to bring about much economic prosperity and led to non-communist movements in the next elections | 11 | |
| 13297879866 | Berlin Wall | When this was broken down, East Germany and West Germany were reunited and free elections began again in Germany. | 12 | |
| 13298307304 | Vaclav Havel | Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 | 13 | |
| 13298319495 | Charter 77 | Czechoslovakian organization that protested against violations of human rights. It eventually replaced Gustav Husak with Vaclav Havel | 14 | |
| 13298437495 | Mao's New Democracy | This was Mao's tactic to ease the country into socialism, similar to Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). It was a land distribution technique that the government used to villainize landlords in order to give their lands to the rural public. While this helped the economy and pleased many peasants, it led to the death of claiming of thousands of innocent farmers and landlords. | 15 | |
| 13298572169 | Great Leap Forward | This was an economic and social plan used in China from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern industrial society. It failed because there were no incentives and people were very unwilling to adapt to the radical changes. As a result, around 15 million people died of starvation. Nice going, Mao! | 16 | |
| 13304216596 | Red Guards | The Radical youth mobilized by Mao in the Cultural Revolution in China starting in 1966. Often wore red armbands and carried Mao's Little Red Book. | 17 | |
| 13304377281 | four olds | Old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits; the Red Guard's targets for destruction. They did this by taking down temples, scriptures, and street signs. | 18 | |
| 13304391331 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | A movement launched by Mao Zedong that attempted to purge the Chinese of capitalist influences. In this effort, they created a new school system based on "Mao Zedong thought" and his little red book. All incentives were also eliminated. The goal was uninterrupted revolution in order to purge China of capitalism. | 19 | |
| 13304991736 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. He executed/imprisoned the "gang of four" that supported Mao. He also ended the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution when people finally got sick of anarchy. | 20 | |
| 13305007947 | Four Modernizations | Deng Xiaoping's plan to change China after the disaster of Cultural Revolution. They were Industry, agriculture, technology, and national defense. These changed helped to revitalize China's economy and reduce poverty!! Funny how capitalist programs always seem to improve the economy in communist societies... weird, huh? | 21 | |
| 13305243875 | Tiananmen 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. | 22 | |
| 13305687344 | Confucianism and CCP | This was the government's attempt to improve the reputation of socialism. When Marxist-Leninist doctrine didn't work, they turned to confucianism for a new way of ideological purity. Basically the CCP was desperate. | 23 | |
| 13305750444 | Xinjiang and Tibet Provinces | This was where some minorities (Muslims and Tibetans) felt unrepresented, which caused unrest in China. | 24 | |
| 13320800685 | Rural responsibility system | post-Maoist land reform in China, under which collectives leased land to peasant families, who could consume or sell their surplus production and keep the profits | 25 | |
| 13320802367 | Family planning program | Under Deng, families were only allowed to have one child. This led to occasional female infanticide | 26 |
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AP World History Chapter 18 Flashcards
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| 12416821109 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American ans spanish | 0 | |
| 12416821110 | métis | People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent | 1 | |
| 12416821111 | mita | Spanish | 2 | |
| 12416821112 | one-drop rule | the belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black, a concept that evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation | 3 | |
| 12416821139 | Geography | 4 | ||
| 12416821113 | New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. | 5 | |
| 12416821114 | French | Canada | 6 | |
| 12416821115 | Dutch | northeast coast of Brazil, Caribbean, and new Netherlands (New York, which they gave to the English) | 7 | |
| 12416821116 | English | east coast of modern America. Jamestown and Virginia | 8 | |
| 12416821117 | New Spain | After the defeat of the Aztecs, it was a Spanish colony. Its capital was Mexico City. | 9 | |
| 12416821118 | Mita | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | 10 | |
| 12416821140 | Section one | 11 | ||
| 12416821119 | Erauso | known as la monja alferez "the lieutenant nun" | 12 | |
| 12416821120 | social class of spanish | officials from spain and locally born spaniards mixed decent Indians and African slaves | 13 | |
| 12416821141 | Spanish empire was the most powerful european colonial venture in americas and established base of power at maniila in philippines | 14 | ||
| 12416821121 | Counsil of the Indies | was incharge of increasing authority througha centralized bureaucracy | 15 | |
| 12416821122 | 4 viceroyalties | New Spain ( cap. @ mexico city) , Peru(Lima), New Granada (Bogota), La Plata (Buenos aires) | 16 | |
| 12416821123 | spanish | catholic | 17 | |
| 12416821142 | missionary work | 18 | ||
| 12416821124 | catholic religious orders | protectors of indigenous peoples | 19 | |
| 12416821125 | Criollos (Creoles) | people born in the Americas of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry; they were participating in government | 20 | |
| 12416821126 | Peninsulares | civic and religious officials sent directly from spain, dissatisfied with their dominance | 21 | |
| 12416821127 | Potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. | 22 | |
| 12416821128 | Encomineda | got restrictions | 23 | |
| 12416821129 | repartimiento | new legal system, gave spaniards the right to coerce amerindian labor for specific tasks. | 24 | |
| 12416821130 | families of conversos and moriscos | converted from judaism and islam | 25 | |
| 12416821131 | quilombos | runaway communities | 26 | |
| 12416821132 | kilombo | merit based league of warriors that cut across family ties | 27 | |
| 12416821133 | Ganga Zumba (great lord) | ruled them and elected them | 28 | |
| 12416821134 | France | sought route to asia | 29 | |
| 12416821135 | Brazil | sugar | 30 | |
| 12416821136 | France | fur | 31 | |
| 12416821137 | dutch | sugar | 32 | |
| 12416821138 | english | tobacco and sugar | 33 |
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