AP World History Test- Dates, People, and Major Events Flashcards
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| 164840708 | V-E Day | May 8, 1945 | 0 | |
| 164840709 | Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 | 1 | |
| 164840710 | Roosevelt signs the U.S. Declaration of War | December 8, 1941 | 2 | |
| 164840711 | U.S. takes Iwo Jima | February 19, 1945 | 3 | |
| 164840712 | Potsdam Conference | July, 1945 | 4 | |
| 164840713 | V-J Day | September 2, 1945 | 5 | |
| 164840714 | Rise of 2 superpowers | late 20th century | 6 | |
| 164840715 | Division of Germany | 1945-1990 | 7 | |
| 164840716 | Atlantic Charter | 1941 | 8 | |
| 164840717 | Partition of India | 1947 | 9 | |
| 164840718 | Ghana independence | March 6, 1957 | 10 | |
| 164840719 | Kenya independence | December 12, 1963 | 11 | |
| 164840720 | All African nations independent | 1970s | 12 | |
| 164840721 | Zionist movement (led by Theodor Henzil) | 1890s | 13 | |
| 164840722 | Balfour Declaration | 1917 | 14 | |
| 164840723 | League of Nations (GB has Palestine) | 1917 | 15 | |
| 164840724 | World War II/ Holocaust (Jews move to Palestine) | 1939-1945 | 16 | |
| 164840725 | UN partitions Palestine (Jews= accepting while Arabs= not so accepting...) | 1947 | 17 | |
| 164840726 | Palestine becomes Israel | 1948 | 18 | |
| 164840727 | Mexico controlled by the PRI (Party of Institutionalized Revolution) | 1940s-2000 | 19 | |
| 164840728 | Mexico joins NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) | 1990s | 20 | |
| 164840729 | Vincente Fox elected President in Mexico (ended PRI dominance) | 2000 | 21 | |
| 164840730 | Middle-class/ labour coalition elects Juan Jose Arevalo president in Guatemala | 1944 | 22 | |
| 164840731 | President Arbenz in Guatemala | 1951 | 23 | |
| 164840732 | US government becomes concerned about "communist" penetration of Arbenz gov't | 1953 | 24 | |
| 164840733 | US (CIA) organizes military force to invade Guatemala/ Arbenz gov't falls; pro-US government takes control and renegotiates land reform favorable to United Fruit Company | 1954 | 25 | |
| 164840734 | Vuba ruled by Fulgencio Batista | 1934-1944 | 26 | |
| 164840735 | democratic constitution (Batista) | 1940 | 27 | |
| 164840736 | Batista flees Cuba | December 1958 | 28 | |
| 164840737 | Castro's revolutionaries seize Havana, Cuba | January 1, 1959 | 29 | |
| 164840738 | US declares trade embargo of Cuba/ Castro declares himself a Marxist (Communist) | 1960 | 30 | |
| 164840739 | Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) | 1957 | 31 | |
| 164840740 | Gamal Nasser (Egypt) | 1954 | 32 | |
| 164840741 | Suez Canal | 1956 | 33 | |
| 164840742 | Six-Day War | 1967 | 34 | |
| 164840743 | Nasser imposes blockade against Israeli commerce through the Gulf of Aqaba | 1967 | 35 | |
| 164840744 | Nasser (loses Arab support) succeeded by Anwar al-Sadat | 1970 | 36 | |
| 164840745 | Truman Doctrine | 1947 | 37 | |
| 164840746 | British, French, and Americans begin making plans for unification of the three western sections of Germany and the creation of West German gov't | 1948 | 38 | |
| 164840747 | Berlin Blockade and Airlift (USSR imposes blockage thus preventing all traffic from entering the western zones through Soviet-controlled Berlin) | 1948-49 | 39 | |
| 164840748 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 1941-1979 | 40 | |
| 164840749 | increased opposition from Islamic clerics- especially Ayatolian Khomeini | 1970s | 41 | |
| 164840750 | widespread demonstrations in Iran | 1978-79 | 42 | |
| 164840751 | Shah's gov't collapsed | January 16, 1979 | 43 | |
| 164840752 | Hostage Crisis (Iranian militants stormed US Embassy in Tehran and took approx. seventy Americans hostage) | 1980 | 44 | |
| 164840753 | Battle of Dien Bien Phu (decisive victory for the Vietminh Communists over the French) | 1954 | 45 | |
| 164840754 | Geneva Conference (peace settlement between France and Vietminh) | 1954 | 46 | |
| 164840755 | US begins providing aid to South Vietnamese government under leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem | Late 1950s | 47 | |
| 164840756 | South Vietnam on the verge of collapse as Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) influence spreads | 1963 | 48 | |
| 164840757 | With approval of Kennedy admin, Diem's gov't overthrown/ Diem assassinated | Fall 1963 | 49 | |
| 164840758 | President Johnson sends troops to South Vietnam | 1965 | 50 | |
| 164840759 | Stalemate (no one's winning; no progress) | 1968 | 51 | |
| 164840760 | Vietnam War | 1955-1975 | 52 | |
| 164840761 | President Nixon wins election on promise to bring an "honorable end" to the Vietnam War | 1969 | 53 | |
| 164840762 | Peace Treaty signed in Paris calling for the removal of all US forces from South Vietnam | 1973 | 54 | |
| 164840763 | Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (perceived threat of Islamic fervor- Iranian Revolution) | 1979 | 55 | |
| 164840764 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 1985 | 56 | |
| 164840765 | The Cold War (the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after World War II between the Communist World - primarily the Soviet Union and the United States.) | 1939-1945 | 57 | |
| 164840766 | political reforms in USSR | 1987 | 58 | |
| 164840767 | East Germany (belongs to Soviet Union) aware of Soviet Reforms; not benefiting from them | 1988 | 59 | |
| 164840768 | Communist gov't fallen into disarray | November 1989 | 60 | |
| 164840769 | East Germany holds its first free elections; vote for unification w/ W. Germany | 1990 | 61 | |
| 164840770 | Gorbachev cedes (gives) control of Russia to Boris Yeltsin | 1991 | 62 |