AP World History Period 6 Part 2 Flashcards

6715215496	Winston Churchill	British prime minister during World War II; exemplified British determination to resist Germany	0
6715220264	Holocaust	Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews and others; 12 million, including 6 million Jews, died	1
6715227876	United Nations	global organization, founded by the Allies following World War II	2
6715231002	Tehran Conference	1944; meeting between the leaders of Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe	3
6715233001	Yalta Conference	1945; agreed upon Soviet entry into the war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to the Soviet Union	4
6715236690	Potsdam Conference	1945; meeting between the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union; allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the victors	5
6715242696	Atlantic Charter	1941; pact between the US and Britain; gave Britain a strong ally; in return the document contained a clause recognizing the right of all people to select their own government	6
6715245893	Quit India movement	mass civil disobedience campaign against British rule of India in 1942	7
6715248155	Muslim League	Indian organization that emerged at the end of World War II; backed Britain in the war	8
6715254162	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	Muslim Indian nationalist; leader of the Muslim League; worked for a separate Muslim state; first president of Pakistan	9
6715255441	Land Freedom Army	African revolutionary movement for reform of Kenyan colonial system; began a conflict in 1952; called the Mau Mau by the British	10
6715261411	National Liberation Front (FLN)	Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950s; gained independence for Algeria in 1962	11
6715263517	Afrikaner National Party	became the majority in the all-white South African legislature in 1948; worked to form the rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid	12
6715264709	Cold War	struggle from 1945 to 1989 between the communist and democratic worlds; ended with the collapse of Russia	13
6715269628	Eastern bloc	Eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the cold war	14
6718441452	Iron Curtain	term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the Western and communist nations	15
6718442802	Marshall Plan	1947 United States program to rebuild Europe and defeat domestic communist movements	16
6718444948	North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	formed in 1949 under US leadership to group Canada and Western Europe against the Soviets	17
6718446769	Warsaw Pact	Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites	18
6718448041	Welfare state	Great Depression-inspired system that increased government spending to provide social insurance and stimulate the economy	19
6718450983	Technocrat	New type of bureaucrat trained in the sciences or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; rose to importance in governments after World War II	20
6718455825	Green movement	rise during the 1970s in Europe of groups hostile to uncontrolled economic growth	21
6718457960	Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan	conservative leaders of 1970s and 1980s; worked to cut welfare and to promote free enterprise; Cold Warriors	22
6718460074	European Union	- began by six nations as the European Economic Community (Commons Market); by the 21st century incorporated most of western European states and was expanding eastward	23
6718461026	New feminism	wave of agitation for women's rights dating from about 1949; emphasized equality between sexes	24
6718463384	Solidarity	Polish labor movement beginning in the 1970s, taking control of the country from the Soviet Union	25
6718465378	Socialist realism	Soviet effort to replace Western literature and arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses	26
6718467288	Third World	Nations not among capitalist industrial nations of the world or industrialized communist nations of the world	27
6718472175	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)	agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada that lowered trade barriers	28
6718473179	Liberation theology	combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor	29
6718475138	Banana republics	conservative, often dictatorial, Latin American governments friendly to the US; exported tropical products	30
6718476814	Good Neighbor Policy	US President Franklin Roosevelt (1933) policy to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states	31
6718481752	Alliance for Progress	1961 US programs for economic development of Latin America	32