AP World History Exam Review 1900- Present Flashcards

4275682629	Marshal Plan	A U.S. plan to support the reconstruction and recovery of Europe after World War II; stop the spread of communism	0
4275686799	Facism	A political movement: extreme nationalism, one-party rule, denial of individual rights	1
4275709667	Guomindang	China's nationalist political party Founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 Based on democratic principles	2
4275726170	League of Nations	International organization founded after WWI Promoted peace and cooperation amongst member nations	3
4275733890	Brinkmanship	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	4
4275775918	Treaty of Versailles	1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied nations; ended World War I; Germany took blame for the war; had to pay war reparations; territorial losses and no military for Germany	5
4275740547	Containment	Cold War policy of the U.S. - prevent the spread of communism	6
4275753978	World Trade Organization (WTO)	An international organization begun in 1955 to promote and organize world trade	7
4275758968	Five Year Plans	Introduced by Stalin in 1928 to increase industrial production in the Soviet Union Succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power in the 1930's	8
4275771275	Appeasement	The policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930's The idea was to avoid war	9
4275746986	World Bank	Agency of the United Nations Offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development	10
4275797648	New Deal	President Roosevelt's plan of programs to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression; increased government involvement in society	11
4275802466	Cold War	a tense diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II	12
4275805943	Apartheid	South African policy of separating races	13
4275808555	United Nations	The international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation between nations	14
4275813139	Holocaust	The Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups of undesirables	15
4275819109	Reparations	Payment of war debts by the losing side	16
4275823052	Cuban Missile Crisis	1962: Soviets constructed nuclear missile sites Cuba; tense discussions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Khrushchev and Kennedy; Khrushchev eventually backed down & missiles were removed	17
4275839935	McDonaldization	The spread of American culture and values around the world	18
4275846029	Genocide	The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group	19
4275858501	Korean Conflict	War between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the U.S.	20
4291202904	Mass consumerism	Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market	21
4291204549	National Organization for Women	U.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights	22
4291206541	North American Free Trade Organization	(NAFTA) Organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, U.S. and Canada	23
4291207804	Service industries	Jobs that provide a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product	24
4291209394	Afrikaners	South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the 1600's	25
4291210860	Great Leap Forward	China: disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes	26
4291214316	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	1918 treaty ending WWI between Russia and Germany	27
4291215946	Helsinki accords	1957: political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland by Western European nations and the Soviet Union	28
4291218187	Yalta Conference	Soviet Union, Great Britain & the U.S. - 1945; Soviet Union agrees to enter war against Japan in exchange for influence in Eastern European states	29