Q4 AP World History Test Flashcards

387306995	November Crime	Hitler referred to the signing of the 1918 armistice as this	0
387306996	Okinawa	Kamikaze pilots were first introduced during this battle	1
387306997	Kashmir	India and Pakistan fought over this in 1947	2
387306998	Truman Doctrine	Policy to contain the spread of communism	3
387306999	Magic	Secret weapon in the Pacific (Code-breaking operation)	4
387307000	Normandy	The U.S. victory here led to the end of German resistance in western Europe	5
387307001	Marshall Plan	U.S. provides economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II	6
387307002	Yalta	Wartime conference in 1945 between the 3 principle Allied leaders	7
387307003	Midway	Turning point in the War in the Pacific	8
387307004	Warsaw Pact	A military alliance of communist European nations and the Soviet Union	9
387307005	Blitzkrieg	Lightening War	10
387307006	Operation Barbarosa	Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union	11
387307007	Spanish Civil War	Italy and Germany intervened here before the outbreak of WWII (practiced their new weapons and military skills)	12
387307008	Munich Conference	High point of appeasement took place here.	13
387307009	Anschluss	Germany's union with Austria	14
387307010	Non-Agression Treaty	An agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union which shocked the world	15
387307011	Sudetenland	Western part of Czechoslovakia with many ethnic Germans	16
387307012	Manchuria	An undeclared war in the Pacific began with Japan's invasion here	17
387307013	Poland	World War II in Europe began with Hitler's invasion here	18
387307014	Rhineland	In 1936, Hitler remilitarized this area that bordered France	19
387307015	Neville Chamberlain	British prime minister who promised "peace for our time" to support his appeasement policies toward Hitler	20
387307016	The Berlin Airlift	After the Soviet Union blockaded all of Berlin, the US responded with this that changed the attitude of the German people in favor of the Allies	21
387307017	capitalism and communism	Ideologically, the two competing sides in the Cold War	22
387307018	Soviet Union	The German Democratic Republic was controlled by what superpower	23
387307019	domino theory	Eisenhower's belief that if one nation fell to Communism than so would its neighbors	24
387307020	Bay of Pigs	Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro planned by the US government and JFK, who failed to provide air support	25
387307021	Cuban Missile Crisis	This Cold War event was the closest to the United States and the Soviet Union came to war with one another	26
387307022	Brezhnev Doctrine	This act reserved the right for the Soviet Union to invade any socialist country that was deemed to be threatened by forces hostile to socialism	27
387307023	detente	reduction in hostility between nations	28
387307024	Afghanistan	The Soviet Union's "Vietnam"	29
387307025	Gorbachev	The Russian leader who brought massive reform to the Soviet Union beginning in 1985	30
387307026	Solidarity	A combined trade union and nationalist movement in Poland	31
387307027	Boris Yeltsin	Leader who dismantled the Soviet Communist party and pushed Russia towards free market reforms	32
387307028	Bandung Conference	The first international conference of colored people	33
387307029	Ho Chi Ming	Leader of North Vietnam from 1945-1969	34
387307030	Dienbienphu	The disastrous 1954 defeat that forced the French out of Vietnam	35
387307031	Indira Gandhi	Indian leader who tried to control the population through involuntary sterilization	36
387307032	Mao Zedong	He initiated the disastrous "Great Leap Forward"	37
387307033	Nehru	Leader of India's Congress Party; India's first Prime Minister	38
387307034	Gamal Nasser	Leader of the Arab world in the 1950's and 1960's	39
387307035	Deng Xiaoping	Opened China to foreign, capitalist economic values	40
387307036	Diem	First president of South Vietnam	41
387307037	Ali Jinnah	Leader of the Muslim League, wanted an independent "Pakistan" (land of the pure)	42
387307038	De Klerk	Released Mandela from prison and worked to dismantle the apartheid system	43
387307039	Ayatollah Khomeini	He led the Iranian Revolution	44
387307040	Nehru	One of the main leaders of the nonaligned movement	45
387307041	Contras	counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua funded by the CIA that opposed the communist regime	46
387307042	Ataturk	Established the Republic of Turkey and became its first president	47
387307043	Fran Ferdinand	His assassination was the spark that ignited World War I	48
387307044	FDR	President of the United States who implemented the "New Deal"	49
387307045	Sun Yatsen	Early leader of the Nationalist People's Party, proclaimed China a republic in 1912	50
387307046	Nicholas II	Last czar of Russia	51
387307047	Marcus Garvey	A pivotal figure for black nationalism, wrote "Africa for Africans"	52
387307048	DuBois	Black U.S. activist and leading proponent of Pan-Africanism	53
387307049	Chiang Kai-shek	Leader of the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) after 1925 in China, launched the Northern Expedition	54
387307050	Gandhi	Influenced Indian Nationals to work toward independence	55
387307051	Wilfred Owen	Great poet during WWI, wrote "Duce el decorum est"	56
387307052	Mao Zedong	Leader of the Chinese Communist Party	57
387307053	Kenyatta	Led Kenya to independence from the British	58
387307054	John Keynes	He urged the U.S. government to expand the money supply and undertake public work programs	59
387307055	Stalin	His 5-year plans were designed to turn Russia into an industrial power house	60
387307056	Lenin	Instituted the New Economic Policy in Russia	61
387307057	Mussolini	The leader of the Italian fascist movement	62
387307058	the Marne River	The German offense of 1914 was halted here	63
387307059	Verdun	The massive German assault on the western front in 1916	64
387307060	Little Big Horn	Last major Indian victory against the U.S.	65
387307061	Herzl	Founder of Zionism	66
387307062	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Organizer of the Seneca Falls Conference	67
387307063	Locke	Author of the Second Treatise of Civil Government	68
387307064	Bolivar	Wanted to unite the former Spanish colonies of South America into a confederation like the United States	69
387307065	L'Ouverture	Leader responsible for the Saint-Domingue uprising	70
387307066	San Martin	Leader of the independence movement in Argentina	71
387307067	Bismarck	Believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by "blood and iron"	72
387307068	Bessemer	His innovations made it possible to produce cheaper steel	73
387307069	Rockefeller	The petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company	74
387307070	Marx	Author of Manifesto of the Communist Party	75
387307071	Henry Ford	His assembly line made the production process quicker, cheaper, and more efficient	76
387307072	Rousseau	In his Social Contract argued that equality should include the right to vote for all	77
387307073	Robespierre	Radical period of the French Revolution took place under his leadership	78
387307074	Reign of Terror	Radical stage of Revolution, leader was Robespierre, guillotine was symbol	79
387307075	Von Metternich	Leading Conservative politician at the Congress of Vienna	80
387307076	James Watt	Inventor of the Steam Engine	81
387307077	Jenner	Vaccination against smallpox	82
387307078	No taxation without representation	Slogan of the American Revolution	83
387307079	National Assembly	Expressed the guiding principles of the French Revolution by issuing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen	84
387307080	Liberty, equality, fraternity	Battle cry of the French Revolution	85
387307081	Great Britain	Industrial Revolution began where?	86
387307082	bourgeoisie	Middle class in revolutionary French: the doctors, lawyers, merchants, business owners	87
387307083	factory system	The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century	88
387307084	capitalists and proletariat	Marx and Engles proposed that capitalism divided people into which two classes?	89
387307085	Hong Xiuquan	Leader of the Taiping Rebellion	90
387307086	Wounded Knee	Last major Indian resistance battle in 1890	91
387307087	Lincoln	U.S. president dedicated to "free soil"	92
387307088	Alexander II	Emancipated the Russian serfs	93
387307089	Muhammad Ali	Egyptian leader who overthrew Ottoman control	94
387307090	Mahmud II	Sultan in 1826 who slaughtered mutinous Janissaries and opened the door for reform within the Ottoman Empire	95
387307091	Sergei Witte	Prime mover behind Russian industrialization	96
387307092	Nanjing	This treaty ended the Opium War	97
387307093	Self-Strengthening Movement	Wanted to blend Chinese cultural traditions with western technology	98
387307094	Cixi	Ruled China for most of the last fifty years of the Qing Dynasty	99
387307095	Boxers	Foreign embassies in China were attacked by this group ("get rid of the foreign devils")	100
387307096	Cecil Rhodes	Leading British imperialist who said, "We are the finest race in the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"	101
387307097	Thomas Raffles	Founded the Port of Singapore	102
387307098	Boers	Dutch settlers in South Africa	103
387307099	Rudyard Kipling	Author of The White Man's Burden	104
387307100	Berlin Conference	This set the rules for European colonization of Africa	105
388733464	Prague Spring	Alexander Dubcek's reform in Czechoslovakia; promised "socialism with a human face"	106
388733465	hindu	Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a ________ extremist	107
388733466	American	The Vietnam Declaration of Independence was modled on the _____________ Constitution	108
388733467	Great Britain	This country served as the mandate power in Palestine after WWI	109
388733468	Balfour Declaration	This supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917	110
388733469	Year of the Africans	This refers to the independence in 1960 of 13 former European African colonies	111
388733470	Tiananmen Square	A pro-democracy demonstration in China in 1989 that was crushed by a bloody crackdown.	112
388733471	Saddam Hussein	Became president of Iraq and attacked Iran hoping to become the new leader of a revived pan-Arab nationalism	113
388733472	Belgium	This country established the Congo Free State	114
388733473	Russo-Japanese War	Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in this war	115
388733474	tea	Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of _____	116
388733475	India	In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from which country?	117
388733476	Young Turks	Rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform with universal suffrage and free education	118
389159824	Russia	Slavic cultural unity was actively promoted by ______________.	119
389159825	World War I	The worlds first total war	120
389159826	May Fourth Movement	A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.	121
389159827	Mukden Incident	When Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese attacked a Japanese railway; used by Japan as an excuse to seize Manchuria	122
389159828	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	A treaty between Russia and the Germans that allowed Russia to exit World War I	123
389159829	Dubcek	Leader of Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring, he expanded freedom of discussion and other intellectual rights at a time when they were being repressed in the Soviet	124
389159830	France	Louisiana Purchase was purchased from _________	125
389159831	France	Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos came under control of which European country	126
389159832	Stalin	Means "Made of Steel"	127
389159833	Pakistan	Means "Land of the Pure"	128
389159834	Brown vs Board of Education	US Supreme Court case making the segregation of schools unconstitutional	129