AP World History - Deck #6 Flashcards
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| 2542297018 | Mexican Revolution | Beginning in 1910, this was a ten-year rebellion that ended in a new Mexican Constitution. | 0 | |
| 2542318127 | Results of the Mexican Revolution | A new Constitution that guaranteed land reform, limited foreign investments, restricted church ownership of property, and reformed education. | 1 | |
| 2542327978 | Central Powers of World War One | Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria. | 2 | |
| 2542334020 | Allied Powers (AKA Triple Entente) | Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy and later, the United States. | 3 | |
| 2542341938 | The Russo-Japanese War | A war between Russia and Japan that Tsar Nicholas II started. Believing Japan would be an easy target, the Tsar started this war to gain supremacy in Asia. Russia's defeat was a result of their lack of industrialization and ultimately led to Tsar Nicholas' downfall. | 4 | |
| 2542395227 | Duma | Term of Russian Parliament. | 5 | |
| 2542401048 | Russian Revolution | From 1918-1921, Russia's Civil War in which the Bolsheviks (also known as the Red Army), solidified their power ower wealthy owners and supporters of the Tsar. | 6 | |
| 2542407811 | Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty that ended World War One, signed between Germany and most of the Allied nations. | 7 | |
| 2542432358 | Causes of World War One | ANIME: Alliances (short term); long term causes: Nationalism, Industrialization/Imperialism, Militarism, Entangled Alliances. | 8 | |
| 2542445203 | The Great Depression | A worldwide event caused by failing economies and banks as wellas the crash of the American Stock Market. | 9 | |
| 2542455934 | The Conditions of Versailles | A war guilt clause placed total blame for WWI on Germany. They were for to pay reparations of $33 billion, give up their colonies abroad, give Alsace-Lorraine to France and the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia. | 10 | |
| 2542564872 | Marshall Plan (1947) | An American-sponsored program that aimed to prevent Communist-dominated nations east of the 'Iron Curtain' (the border of the USSR) from spreading totalitarianism, the US sponsored a program of recovery. This was known as the Marshall Plan. | 11 | |
| 2542585680 | Apartheid | A policy of highly restrictive racial segregation imposed on South Africa by the Afrikaners (South Africans of Dutch descent). | 12 | |
| 2542597287 | Berlin Wall | Constructed in 1961, when a tide of East Germans (under Communist rule) | 13 |