AP World History Exam Flashcards

170158114	Russia China US Britain France	What are the 5 permanent nations in the United Nations?	0
170158115	Somalia, Bosnia, Palestine, Zaire	What are the notable failures of the UN?	1
170158116	World Health Organization (WHO)	What divison of the UN eradicated smallpox and reduced infant mortality rates by 50%	2
170158117	Universal Declaration of Human Rights	What did the UN adopt?	3
170158118	The Balfour Doctrine of 1917	This committed the British government to supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, a region it controlled as a mandate after WW2.	4
170158119	Communal Farm	What is a Kibbutzim?	5
170158120	Six-Day War	In this war, Israel took Arab Lands including East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.	6
170158121	Guerrilla	The Palestine Liberation Organization, began what type of war against Israel and engaged in acts of terrorism?	7
170158122	Palestine Liberation Organization	What is the PLO?	8
170158123	Nasser	Who took control of Egypt in 1954?	9
170158124	Organization of Oil exporting Countries	What is OPEC stand for?	10
170158125	Iran (persia)	What became a frontline between the US and USSR during the cold war?	11
170158126	the Shah of Iran	Who returned to complete power with US support?	12
170158127	Shah Pahlavi	Whose regime was toppled in 1979 by mass protests?	13
170158128	Ayatollah Khomeini	This Islamist took power and created a strict Shia theocracy where women were forced to wear traditional Islamic clothing and roles.	14
170158129	Nations north of the Sahara	What African nations were the first colonies to win independence?	15
170158130	The French	Who was forced out of Algeria after WWII?	16
170158131	The National Liberation Front	Who led a successful War of Independenc (1954-1962)?	17
170158132	Arbitrary Borbers	What was drawn according to European needs, making national unity hard?	18
170158133	Set up educational systems	What did Colonial powers not do that the British DID do in India?	19
170158134	Ghana	What was the first Sub-Saharan African Nation to become independent in 1957?	20
170158135	Kwame Nkrumah	Ghana was led by who?	21
170158136	Kenya	What countries decolonization was bloody and protracted?	22
170158137	Jomo Kenyatta	Who was the first President of Kenya?	23
170158138	Separation of races	What does Apartheid mean?	24
170158139	African National Congress	What does ANC stand for?	25
170158140	Communists	What was the African National Congress labeled as?	26
170158141	Guerrilla Warfare	What did the ANC support after the Massacre at Sharpevill?	27
170158142	Nelson Mandela	Who was imprisoned in 1974 for support of anti- apartheid violence in Africa?	28
170158143	Organization of African Unity	What does OAU stand for?	29
170158144	Neocolonialism	What increased in Latian America?	30
170158145	Fidel Castro	Who lead a popluar revolution in Cuba in 1959?	31
170158146	Fulgencio Batista	Who was the dictor in Cuba that was over thrown in 1959?	32
170158147	Cuba	When faced with US blockade, who turned to the Soviet Union for economic aid and began to form a communist economy?	33
170158148	Liberation Theology	In the 1960s the Catholic Church liberalized and modernized many of its practices, this was called what?	34
170158149	Catholic salvation theology and Marxism	Some Latin Americans blended what two ideas to combat the misery of poverty and repressive regimes?	35
170158150	Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador	Who was gunned down in 1980 at the alter while saying mass?	36
170158151	Brazil	What was the first nation to take a reactionary approach to the challenges of the cuban revolution and liberation theology?	37
170158152	The Brazilian Solution	Brazil was the first nation to take a reactionary approach to the challenges of the cuban revolution and liberation theology, this was called what?	38
170158153	Kaiser Wilhelm	Who was the ruler of Germany in 1888?	39
170158154	Princip	Who shot Archduke Ferdiand and Wife Sophia?	40
170158155	Schlieffen Plan	What plan failed in WW1 but worked in WW2?	41
170158156	Battle of Marne	What was the first major clash of WW1?	42
170158157	Autocracy	What type of rule was Alexander III?	43
170158158	Okhana	What was the secret police in Russia called	44
170158159	Pogroms	What did Alexander the III encourge to perecute the Jews?	45
170158160	Trans-Siberian Railway	Whats the world longest railway?	46
170158161	Mensheviks and Bolsheviks	What was the Marxist split in Russia?	47
170158162	Lenin	Who was the first revolutionary leader in Russia?	48
170158163	Nicholas II	Who dragged russia into WWI?	49
170158164	Alexander Kerensky	After Nicholas the II, the Government took over in Russia, headed by who?	50
170158165	Bolsheviks and Conservatives	Who was the reds and whites in the Russian Revolution?	51
170158166	Zeppelins	In WW1 Germans used these balloons.	52
170158167	Pact of Steel	What was another name for the Berlin Axis in 1939?	53
170158168	The Manhatten Project	What was the secret name of the planning of the atomic bombs?	54
170158169	Mao zedong	The long march in china was put on by who?	55
170158170	Jiang Jieshu	What Chinese ruler took US money for himself?	56
170158171	The Dalai Lama	Who fled to India in the late 1950s?	57
170158172	Platt Amendment	What was the Amendment signed by Cuban and the US?	58
170158173	Ngo Dinh Diem	Who did the Us support in Vietnam?	59
170158174	Age of Neurosis	From 1919-39 this period of time was called what? (a mental and emotional disorder)	60
170158175	Existetialism	Belief that there is no universal meaning to life.	61
170158176	New Zeland	Who was first to allow women to vote?	62
170158177	Aritcle 48	What gave germany president to suspend civil liberites in a emergancy?	63
170158178	Dawes Plan	What was the plan in which the US gave germany money?	64
170158179	Kellog- Briand Peace Pact	What was the peace pact in 1928 that almost every country signed?	65
170917671	Abbasid Caliphate	What society from 750-1258 CE believed that women possesed incurable lust and must be kept in the home?	66
170917672	Trung Sisters	What sisters from Vietnam led first century CE revolt against Han incasions and became national heros?	67
170917673	Women	Who were the most common targets during witch- craft hysteria in Europe?	68
170917674	Akbar	Mughal India under this man,attempted to outlaw sati, discouraged child and arranged marriages and had special market days to end seclusion of Hindu and Muslim women.	69
170917675	Women	Mao Zedong was committed too the liberation of who?	70
170917676	Feudalism	During the period of the Warring States, (403BCE) China reverted to what philosophy, opposed to that of the pre-dominate Confucian and Daoisst philosophy?	71
171054590	Old Stone Age	What does the Paleolithic Era mean?	72
171054591	New Stone Age	What does the Neolithic Era mean?	73
171054592	Traced through father's lineage	Define Partrilineal	74
171054593	Traced through mother's lineage	Define Matrilineal	75
171054594	Ethnocentrism	To look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culutre.	76
171054595	Fertile Crescent	A region in the Middle East incroporating present-day Isreal, West Bank, Lebanon, parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south eastern Turkey.	77
171054596	Gilgamesh	A king who became a lengendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh providing a defintion of early civilization to ancient Mesopotamia.	78
171054597	Four Noble Truths	Fundamental insight or enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, which led to the formulation of the Buddhist philosopy of hmns counted among the four HIndu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language.	79
171054598	Eightfold Path	Way to the cessation of suffering, the fourth part of the Four Noble Truths.	80
171054599	Theravada Buddhism	This sect of Buddhism believes that Buddha is the Teacher.	81
171054600	Mahayan Buddhism	This sect of Buddhism believes that Buddha is God.	82
171054601	Zoroastrianism	One of the world's oldest monotheistic religions; worship of wisdom.	83
171054602	Laozi	Founder/Techer of Taoism	84
171054603	Analects	Record of speeches by Confucius and his discipples as well as the discussions they held	85
171054604	Confucius	Teacher/Founder of Confucianism	86
171054605	Hammurabi's Law Code	First set of defined laws within a civilzation	87
171054606	Harappan Civilization	What is the Indus Valley Civilization sometimes reffered to as?	88
171054607	The Assyrians	Who were the indigenous people of Mesopotamia?	89
171054608	The Lydians	Acient kindom of Asia Minor	90
171054609	Homer	Legendary early Greek poet and rapsody traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey	91
171054610	Socrates and Plato	Famous Greek philosopher and his student	92
171054611	Aristotle	Along with Plato, considered one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought.	93
171054612	Peasants, Upperclass	Who were the plebians? Who were the Patricians?	94
171054613	Punic Wars	Series of three wars fought between Rome and the Phoenician city of Carthage.	95
171054614	Mandate of Heaven	Blessing of heaven that if a king ruled unwisely heaven would be displeased and would give the mandate to someone else.	96
171054615	Vedism	Known as the Rig Veda, hyms counted among the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language.	97
171054616	Samsara	Transmigration of soul from one body to another	98
171054617	Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva	The creator, the preserver, the destroyer	99
171054618	Sumer	Who developed Cuneiform writing?	100
171054619	First paper	What was Papyrus?	101
171054620	Animism	The Chinese first believed in what belief, that included many spirts in nature with no overaching god or organized religion?	102
171054621	Xenophobia	Fear of foreigners	103
171054622	Shang	What dynasty did Womens status start to decline in China?	104
171054623	Silk	What was Han Chinas most valuable trade product?	105
171054624	The Vedic Age	During what age did Aryans migrate to India?	106
171054625	Sanskrit	What was the writing system used during the vedic age in the Indus Valley?	107
171054626	Jati	What was the subcast of occupation during the Vedic age in the Indus Valley?	108
171054627	Jainism	A strict form of Hinduism that rejected all forms of violence, did not follow rules of the caste.	109
171054628	Huns	Pressure from what nomadic invaders from central asia caused the ancient Indian empire to collapse?	110
171054629	Persepolis	Where was Perisa's capital?	111
171054630	Julius Caesar	Who was Augustus Caesar's nephew?	112
171054631	Confusianism, Hiduism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism	Analects- Vedas- Bible- Torah- Four Noble Truths/8 Fold Path-	113
171054632	Disciple of Confucius	Who was Mencius?	114
171054633	Authoritarian	A person who believes that an individual should obey the powerful ruler	115
171054634	Lao Zi	Who created Daoism	116
171054635	Daoism	Dao De Jing is the basic text of what?	117
171054636	Ghana, Mali, Songhai	What were the "New" Islamic empires in Africa?	118
171054637	The Dhow	What type of ship did Arab sailors use?	119
171054638	The Junk	What type of ship did Chinese sailors use?	120
171054639	Mansa Musa	Sundiata, the founder of Mali, his nephew, _______ made a pilgrimage to mecca in 1325 and established mosques and schools throughout Mali.	121
171054640	Delhi Sultinate	What was the Muslim rule of India called? (1206-1526)	122
171054641	Shinto	What was Japans indigenous polytheistic religion, that was known as "the way of the gods"?	123
171054642	Independent	Although Vietnam did adopted confucian educationa and administrative structures from China, Vietnamese women retained much of their _______ status.	124
171054643	Ibn Battuta	Who was born in Morrocco, traveled farther than Marco Polo, and recorded his own journies?	125
171054644	Zheng He	Who was born in China into a Muslim family, was a Chinese Admiral, and traveled beyond the cape of good hope?	126
171054645	the aztecs	What empire in the americas rose to power from a nomdic tribe of mercenary warriors?	127
171054646	Tenochitilan	What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?	128
171076625	The Americas	Where wasnt the wheel invented?	129
171076626	Ferdinand Isabella	Unification of Spain under _____ and his wife _______.	130
171076627	Inquistition	______ was the persecution of non-catholics in Spain.	131
171076628	Cortez	Conquers aztecs with help from superior weapons, diseases, legend of Quetzalcoatl.	132
171076629	Pizarro	Conquers Incans with help from superior wepons, civil disorder, diseases. He also conquered southwest USA, Chile, Argentina and Peru.	133
171076630	Tordesillas	Treaty of ____ Spain gets west of the line.	134
171076631	Jamestown	What is the first permanent British settlement in North America?	135
171076632	Estates General	What was the French Parlament first called?	136
171076633	Janissares	Christian boys captured by Ottomans and trained as soldiers.	137
171076634	Martin Luther	Who founded Lutheranism?	138
171076635	Jesuits	Organization of priests focused on the spread of Catholicism through education and politics.	139
171076636	Women	The Enlightenment did not generally lead to an improvement in the status of _____.	140
171076637	Enlightenment	Government responsive to the needs of its people. Popular will vs. Divine Right.	141
171076638	John Locke	Who believed everyone had rights to life, liberty and property.	142
171076639	Voltaire	Used literary satire and harsh direct critism to call for religious toleration and freedom of expression.	143
171076640	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	His thoughts inspired independence and anti-slavery movements.	144
171076641	Popular sovereignty	The American constitution was based on ____ _____.	145
171076642	French colony of saint Domingue	What was Haiti previously known as?	146
171076643	Maroons	What were escaped slaves called?	147
171076644	to Haiti	The French revolution spread where?	148
171076645	Francois-Dominique Toussaint	Who led the Haitian Revolution?	149
171076646	Coal	The discovery of what in Great Britain let them shift away from the use of wood and charcoal?	150
171076647	Textile mills	What was the first merchanized industry?	151
171076648	Luddites	What were British craftmen called?	152
171076649	Cuba and Puerto Rico	Creoles led movents to set up republics in all Spanish colonies execpt which 2?	153
171076650	Peninsulares	Only people from portugal or spain could be colonial officials	154
171076651	Creoles	Individuals of spanish or portugues descent	155
171076652	Simon Bolivar	Used the forced of his personality to rally all social classes for Venezuelan independence.	156
171076653	President Benito Juarez	A mestizo who led a liberal reform movement to limit the power of the Catholic church and military.	157
171076654	Anarchists	Who was Alexander II assassinated by?	158
171076655	Treaty of nanjing	What is an example of an unequal peace treaty?	159
171076656	Empress Cixi	Who was the empress who controlled the Qing dynasty for almost 50 years?	160
171076657	Boers Afrikaners	Dutch settlers in africa know as ___ or _____.	161
171076658	Monroe Doctrine	stated that all of the Americas were a USA protectorate	162