AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

4345233566	Anti- imperialism	The idea that imperialist Europe threathened democracy and was based on racism and the US should not expand	0
4345233567	Anti-semitism	Hatred of the Jewish populace	1
4345233568	Apartheid	Laws in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas	2
4345233569	Appeasement	Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability	3
4345233570	Authoritarianism	A form of government in which the ruler has absolute rule	4
4345233571	Bedouin	Nomadic Arab tribe	5
4345233572	Biafra Secessionist Movement	Is a secessionist movement with the aim of securing the resurgence of the defunct state of Biafra from Nigeria	6
4345233573	Cold War	A state of political conflict using means short of armed warfare between the US and Russia	7
4345233574	Collectivization	Combining small farms into large, factory-like farms run by the government	8
4345233575	Communism	A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership	9
4345233576	Consumerism	A movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers	10
4345233577	Cultural Convergence	The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures	11
4345233578	Decolonization	The action of changing from colonial to independent status	12
4345233579	Deforestation	Destruction of forests	13
4345233580	Desertification	The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert	14
4345233581	Dissolution	Separation into component parts	15
4345233582	Domestic	Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation	16
4345233583	Draft	Compulsory military service	17
4345233584	Economic Liberalization	Philosophy that aims to limit the power of the state and increase the power of the market and private property	18
4345233585	Fascism	A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government	19
4345233586	Feminism	The movement aimed at equal rights for women	20
4345233587	Five- Year Plans	Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union	21
4345233588	Free Market Economics	An economy unregulated by the government	22
4345233589	Free Trade	International trade free of government interference	23
4345233590	Genocide	Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group	24
4345233591	Glasnost	A policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems	25
4345233592	Global Warming	A rise in average global temperatures	26
4345233593	Great Depression	A severe, world wide economic crisis starting with the Stock Market crash	27
4345233594	Green Revolution	Term used to describe the transformation of agriculture in many developing nations	28
4345233595	Greenhouse Gases	Gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect	29
4345233596	Holocaust	An act of great destruction and loss of life, specifically the Nazi movement	30
4345233597	Home Countries	Imperialistic countries	31
4345233598	Imperial Metropoles	Home country, a base for imperialism	32
4345233599	League of Nations	An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace	33
4345233600	Mandates	Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants	34
4345233601	Militarized States	States that have a large number of soldiers and spend a large percentage of their GPD on weapons	35
4345233602	Mujahideen/Taliban	Exteremist, anti-US group in the Middle East	36
4345233603	NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked	37
4345233604	Nuclear Weaponry	i.e. Atomic Bomb	38
4345233605	OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; international cartel that inflates price of oil by limiting supply	39
4345233606	Pacific Rim	The countries that border the Pacific Ocean	40
4345233607	Perestroika	A policy that moved Russia into a more market based economy	41
4345233608	Partition	Separate or apportion into sections	42
4345233609	Propaganda	Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause	43
4345233610	Proxy Wars	During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants	44
4345233611	Quebecois Separatist Movement	Huge national terrorist group called the FLQ (Front de liberation du Quebec). They firmly believed that Quebec should separate from Canada, and become it's own, French-speaking country	45
4345233612	Refugee	An exile who flees for safety	46
4345233613	Religious Fundametalism	The belief that the bible does not contain any contradictions or errors, and is literally true	47
4345233614	Segregation	A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups	48
4345233615	Self-Determination	The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will	49
4345233616	Soviets	Councils composed of representatives of workers and soldiers	50
4345233617	Superpowers	Nations with enough military, political, and economic strength to influence events worldwide	51
4345233618	Technological Stagnation	Low amounts of technological advancement	52
4345233619	Terrorism	The calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious in nature	53
4345233620	Third World Countries	Developing countries that lack economic opportunities	54
4345233621	Total War	The channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort	55
4345233622	Totalitarianism	A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator	56
4345233623	United Nations	An organization of independent states formed to promote international peace and security	57
4345233624	Warsaw Pact	An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations	58