Chapter 23 ID's Flashcards

ID's for AP World History Spodek 3rd Edition

383450730	Mikhail Gorbachev	A former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.	0
383450731	Glasnost	A policy which called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union; was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.	1
383450732	Perestroika	A political movement within the Communist Party of Soviet Union. The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system	2
383450733	Boris Yeltsin	Was the president of Russia; much of his ruling era was marked by widespread corruption, inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia.	3
383450734	Vladimir Putin	A Russian politician who served as the President of Russia; he is currently Prime Minister of Russia as of 2012. He had return of political stability and economic progress to Russia, ending the crisis of 1990's.	4
383450735	Al-Qaeda	A global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden. Operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement.	5
383450736	Osama bin Laden	A founder of Al-Qaeda; responsible for the September 11 attacks on United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.	6
383450737	L.K. Advani	A Veteran Indian politician. A former President of the Bharatiya Janata Party; he also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India	7
383450738	Hindutva	Term to describe the movements advocating Hindu nationalism.	8
383450739	John Paul II	Reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church until his death. Acclaimed as the most influential leaders of 20th century; he was instrumental in ending communism and improving Catholic Church's relations.	9
383450740	John XXIII	Headed the Catholic Church and ruled Vatican City until death. He was the second Vatican Council.	10
383450741	Vatican II	Addressed relations between the Roma Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church.	11
383450742	Liberation Theology	A political movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions.	12
383450743	Oscar Romero	Was a bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador; he was assassinated.	13
383450744	Fundamentalist	Someone who supports fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.	14
383450745	Branch Davidians	A Protestant sect that originated from a schism; this branch has many theological beliefs in common with Messianic Judaism.	15
383450746	David Koresh	Was the leader of a Branch Davidians religious sect, believing to be its final prophet.	16
383450747	Jerry Falwell	Was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of a Baptist Church, an academy, Liberty University, and cofounded Moral Majority.	17
383450748	Moral Majority	Was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying.	18
383450749	World Trade Organizations	Is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade.	19
383450750	World Social Forum	Is an annual meeting of civil society organizations which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future.	20
383450751	Dolly	Was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.	21
383450752	Human Genome Project	Is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping genes of the human genome.	22