AP World History Flashcards Flashcards

4434284128	nonalignment	the policy of some developing nations to refrain from aligning themselves with either the US or the Soviet Union during the Cold War	0
4434289134	United Nations	international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations	1
4434293064	Cold War	tense diplomatic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII	2
4434297753	aristocracy	rule by a privileged hereditary class or nobility	3
4434304045	Agriculture in the Yangtze River Valley	cultivated rice about 6500 BCE	4
4434305549	hieroglyphics	system of picture writings used in Egypt	5
4434307834	Modern Art in Mexico	artists such as Diego Rivera painted murals on public buildings; depicted scenes from the Mexican Revolution and hopes for future progress	6
4434317241	Pax Romana	The Roman Peace; period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire; first two centuries CE	7
4434324055	Russo-Japanese War	1904-1905; war between Japan and Russia over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy	8
4434329260	Latin American Migration	sizable migration as inhabitants of rural areas migrated to urban regions in search of jobs; newcomers lived in shantytowns on the outskirts of cities	9
4434342210	Ninety-Five Theses	statements for debate drawn up by Martin Luther; stated that salvation is obtained through faith in Jesus as the savior of the world from sin	10
4434347471	People of Han	name used even today by the Chinese as a tribute to the accomplishments of the Han to Chinese culture	11
4434352092	Shariah	body of law that governs Muslim society	12
4434354544	Predestination	protestant reformer John Calvin's belief that God had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell	13
4434358387	Great Trek	migration (1834) of the boers into the interior of South Africa; result of conflict between the Boers and British over the end of slavery	14
4434363914	Evangelical	pertaining to preaching the Gospel; pertaining to theologically conservative Christians	15
4434367960	Aswan Dam Project	attempt by Egypt to create additional farmland; its interference in the Nile's flood patterns deprived the land of fertile salt; increased deposits of salt in the soil	16
4434377690	China's One-Child Policy	only one child per family allowed; force abortions and sterilizations; relaxed in some parts of China by 2007 to allow some urban couples to have two children	17
4434382037	East Asian Demographics	high population growth; by the 1980s, South Korea had the highest population density in the world; Japan promoted birth control and abortion	18
4434388342	WWII New Technology	atomic bomb, jet engines, tape recordings, radar	19
4434391452	Serf	peasant bound to the land he or she works	20
4434392785	Apartheid	South African policy of separation of the races	21
4434394674	Khan	Mongol ruler	22
4434396812	Samurai	military class of feudal Japan	23
4434399376	Migration from Mexico	during the 1940s, the US set up programs with Mexico to provide workers; hundreds of thousands of migrants, legal and illegal, continue to end the US	24
4434403552	Latin American Trade and WWI	WWI and European trade brought prosperity to Latin America; Latin America turned to import substitution industrialization	25
4434411382	WWI and Global Trade	during WWI, European nations failed to recover their dominant export positions; European trade lost out to the US and Japan	26
4434417947	African Demographics	high birth rates and lower mortality rates resulted in significant population increases in the 20th century; trend continued in spite of AIDS	27
4434423383	Brahmin	member of the social class of priests in Aryan society	28
4434428805	Religious Conflict in Nigeria	from 2000 to 2004, religious conflict in Nigeria caused Christians and Muslims to flee to areas where their religion was the majority faith	29
4434435366	Alexander the Great	unified Greek and Persian culture; reached Indian subcontinent (327 BCE) as far as the Indus River, where he set up a border state called Bactria	30
4434441854	Scholar-Gentry	Chinese class of well-educated men from whom many of the bureaucrats were chosen	31
4434456119	Glasnots	1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed open expression of ideas in the Soviet Union	32
4434460790	Huns	nomads of Central Asia; their movement in the fifth century pushed Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire	33
4434465027	Imperialism	establishment of colonial empires	34
4434466832	Society of Jesus	term for the Jesuits; did missionary work in the Americas and Asia, taking Christianity and the knowledge of European technology to those continents	35
4434474752	Cuba and World Trade	US was Cuba's leading trade partner before 1959; Cuban prosperity was uncertain because of fluctuation in world demands for sugar	36
4434480541	AP World Themes	human-environmental interaction; cultural interaction; political development; economic systems; change in social structures	37
4434486713	Boxer Rebellion	revolt (1898) against foreign residents of China	38
4434489797	Congress of Vienna	conference (1815) of European leaders that met after the fall of Napoleon; restored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and created the balance of power	39
4437428225	Global Culture	dominated by Western trends; disapproval in East Asian and Islamic cultures; english is the language of commerce and the Internet	40
4437439586	Manifest Destiny	in the US, the mid-19th century belief that the country was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific	41
4437445725	Coalition	a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties	42
4437447164	brinkmanship	the Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at any sign of aggression on the part of either power	43
4437451714	Treaty of Tordesillas	the 1494 treaty in which the pope divided unexplored territories between Spain and Portugal	44
4437457497	Classical Civilizations	civilizations that had enduring influence over vast numbers of people	45
4437460034	Zaibatsu	large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century	46
4437473877	Yuan Dynasty	1271-1368; name given to the Mongol ruler of China; religious toleration; welcomed foreign scholars and artisans; Chinese local officials	47
4437482069	Great Leap Forward	the disastrous economic policy of Mao Zedong that proposed the use of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes	48
4437488707	Limitations Placed on African Women	government imposition of shariah law in regions of Nigeria and other Muslim-dominated African nations threatened women's independence and security	49
4437493237	Ramadan	holy month of Islam; commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month	50
4437584031	Radio Technology	used for communication during WWI; first commercial radio broadcast aired in 1920; government control of the airwaves in Europe	51
4437589602	Scientific Revolution	European intellectual movement in the 17th century that established the basis for modern science	52
4437593460	WWI New Technology	airplanes used in combat, dirigibles, tanks, more sophisticate weaponry, poison gas	53
4437598391	Partition of India and Migration	largest migration in history occurred in 1947 and 1948 when the partition of India and Pakistan led to migration of Muslims to Pakistan and Hindus to India	54
4437603479	Government of India Act	an act passed by the British Parliament in 1935 to increase suffrage and turn provincial governments over to Indian leaders	55
4437607953	Capital	the money and equipment need to engage in industrialization	56
4437610230	Berlin Wall	a wall constructed in 1961 by the Soviets to divide East and West Berlin; built to stern the tide of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin; torn down in 1989	57
4437615822	Purges	Joseph Stalin's policy of exiling or killing millions of his opponents in the Soviet Union	58
4437620578	Sino-Japanese War	1895; fought for control of Korea; Japan defeated China	59
4437624452	Five-Year Plans	plans for industrial production introduced in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin in 1928; made the Soviet Union a major industrial power	60
4437635189	Abacus	an ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters	61
4437637465	Palestinian Refugees	first Arab-Israeli War in 1948 created hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees	62
4437642382	International Space Station	vehicle sponsored by 16 nations; circles the Earth while carrying out experiments	63
4437645274	Entrepreneurship	ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production	64
4437648545	Geneva Conference	1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel	65
4437651201	Iran-Iraq Conflict	Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq, took advantage of Iranian weakness by annexing its oil-rich western provinces; with peace in 1988, Iran was devastated economically	66
4437657166	Shinto	traditional Japanese religion; based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature	67
4437659959	Genocide	systematic killing of an entire ethnic group	68
4437661751	Karma	Hindu tradition, the good of evil deeds done by a person	69