AP World final unit exam! Flashcards

6697579920	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	Increased amount of US troops in Vietnam War	0
6697579921	Tet offensive	Turning point of Vietnam War (Campaign of suprise attacks by Viet Cong on Vietnamese new year)	1
6697579922	Paris Peace Accord	Ended direct US involvement in Vietnam War	2
6697579923	Confucian court exams (Vietnam usage)	These were used to determine Vietnamese government positions, later suspended by French	3
6697579924	June Fourth Incident	Student protestors gathered in Tianamen Square for the funeral of Hu Yaobang, who sought to end corruption in Chinese Government	4
6697579925	Deng Xiaoping	Introduced Capitalism into Chinese society, Ordered use of force against protestors during The June Fourth Incident	5
6697957215	Challenges of Chinese economic growth	Income disparity and pollution	6
6697957216	Nationalist China	Supported traditional womens roles while the Communists sought to provide greater liberties	7
6697957217	Red Guard	A group of students during the Cultural Revolution that terrorized Mao's rivals and other intellectuals	8
6697957218	Mao's death - Effect on economy	Following the death of this person, China became more open to capitalist markets and some democratic reform	9
6697957219	The Great Leap Forward	Focused on "backyard" furnaces based on labor not technology, Resulted in worst famine of the Communist era	10
6697957220	Hundred Flowers Campaign	Mao allowed intellectuals to speak out about Communism, negative responses led to arrests, "Entice the snakes out of their caves"	11
6697957221	Autumn Harvest Uprising	Led by Mao Zedong against the Kuomintang, led to Long March	12
6697957222	Kuomintang - foreign aid	Sought aid from the USSR after the West failed to provide assistance	13
6697957223	Sun-Yat sen	Founder of Kuomintang, death led to rise of Chiang Kai-shek	14
6697957224	Chiang Kai-Shek	Sought to eliminate feudalism in China, led the Kuomintang after Sun-Yat sen's death	15
6697957225	Proletarian Revolution (China)	Early Marxist philosopher in China viewed Chinese society as Proletarian	16
6697957226	Communist Infeluence (China)	Many Chinese students viewed the West as bourgeoise exploiters of Chinese peasants	17
6697957227	Russian Revolution influence on China	Made China aware of a possible Marxist solution to their problems	18
6697957228	May fourth Movement	Protest against Chinese Governments handling of Versailles treaty, gave land to Japan. Promoted a more liberal society, Footbinding was outlawed.	19
6697957229	Failed Rule of Yuan Shikai	Japan establishes a foothold in Northern China, has massive domestic power, gained more influence after WW1	20
6697957230	Xinhai Revolution	Numerous groups opposed the Qing dynasty at the turn of the 20th century	21
6697957231	Quing Dynasty (Overthrow)	Toppled in a revolt headed by the Revolutionary Alliance under Sun-Yat Sen	22
6697957232	Puyi	Abdicated, ended over 2000 years of dynastic rule	23
6697957233	The failiure of Confucianism	Both China and Vietnam had failing Confucian systems, failiure to deal with foreign aggression and internal revolt	24
6697957234	Opium war, Sino-Japanese, Spheres of Influence	China	25
6697957235	French Colonialism	Vietnam	26
6697957236	World Cup Soccer	Served as a means to generate nationalism outside the context of military conflict	27
6697957237	Cholera	Bacterial infection, caused by injestion of contaminated food or water, hurt Latin America the most	28
6697957238	Latin American Economics	High debt to foreign countries in recent 20th century, Banana Republics, South America has huge drug problems	29
6697957239	Augusto Pinochet	Dictator of Chile, helped by US to gain control over Salvador Allende	30
6697957240	"Miracle of Chile"	Free market reforms, privatization at the expense if economic disparity	31
6697957241	Chile (Economy)	Strongest performing economy in Latin America	32
6697957242	Fidel Castro	Led succesful coup of Batista's government in Cuba, embraced Socialism	33
6697957243	Bay of Pigs Invasion	Failed to oust Castro	34
6697957244	Colonel Jacobo Arbenz	Sought to nationalize Guatemala, Toppled by United States in support of United Fruit Company, overthrown by CIA due to supposed Communist links, fled to Cuba during Castro's reign	35
6697957245	Juan D. Peron and Evita	Led a populist government following WW2 in Argentina	36
6697957246	Peronism (Created by Juan D. Peron)	Centers on the "three flags" of social justice, economic independence, and political soverignty, viewed as alternate to extremes of capitalism and communism	37
6697957247	US "Good neighbor" policy	US gave loans to Brazil for Industrialization, encourage Brazil to join allies in WW2	38
6697957248	President Getulio Vargas	Dictator of Brazil, embraced democratization as part of siding with Allies, Initially had centralized government based on Mussolini's model, assasination attempt led him to resign	39
6697957249	Estado Novo	New state, period of Varga's leadership, ended by WW2	40
6697957250	Augusta Sandino	Nicuraguan gorilla fighter (Against US marines) was assasinated by US trained Nicaraguan guard, declared a national hero	41
6697957251	NAFTA	Goal was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between member nations, Members: US, Canada, Mexico. Helped Mexico's economy the most	42
6697957252	Highlighted Mexican reforms	Nationalism and concern for Indian affairs	43
6697957253	Party of Institutionalized Revolution	Led the social and political developments of Mexico, instituion if former revolutionairies	44
6697957254	Celebration during Revolution (Mexico)	Mexican literature, music and art focused on the Mexican Revolution with some references to Marxist symbols	45
6697957255	Francisco Madero	Revolted against the forces of Perfiro Diaz, resulted in Mexican Revolution	46
6697957256	Mexican Constituion of 1917	Promised land and reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources and placed restrictions on the church	47
6698093938	Great Pacific Garbage Patch	Mass amount of marine debris, lies between Hawaii and California	48
6698093939	Modern troubles of Little Tigers	Mass pollution due to rapid economic growth, increasing unemployment, weakening currencies	49
6698093940	ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian nations)	Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillipines, Thailand. Sought nation-building, defense against communism. Promotes regional economic growth and peaceful cooperation	50
6698093941	APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation)	Formed to promote free trade and economic intergration, Accounts for 80% of worlds computer and high tech components	51
6698093942	Economic Tigers: Hong Kong	Became part of China after being a territory of the UK for 99 years, Strongly Capitalist, SARS epidemic resulted in many deaths	52
6698093943	Economic Tigers: Taiwan	Not officially recognized by the United Nations, Textile Trade -> Japan	53
6698093944	Economic Tigers: Singapore	Became independent and began to become wealthy through its role as a port for transshipment of goods, became a leader in industrialization due to geopolitical location and tight governmental control	54
6698093945	Economic Tigers: South Korea	Hyundai, historically agricultural, shifting to an industrial economy, higher work week than Americans	55
6698093946	Economic Tigers	South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong. Dramatic economic growth, challenged Japanese dominance in region	56
6698093947	N.J Spykman	Geographer, theorized fhat controlling the Pacific Rim would allow control of the world	57
6698093948	Pacific Rim	Value of goods shipping across exceeded the value of goods shipping across the Atlantic	58
6698093949	Korea Divided: South	Authoritarian with parliamentary institutions, Syngman Rhoe	59
6698093950	Korea Divided: North	Communist with a powerful leader, Kim Il-Sung	60
6698093951	Aftermath of WW2 (Korea)	Russia controlled North while US controlled south	61
6698093952	Korea	Japan sought for this country to minimize its traditions, monarchy was abolished, focused on rice exports	62
6698093953	Singapore	Developed as a naval base by the British, Japanese occupation brought great suffering	63
6698093954	Japanese Economy and Industries	Known for high quality goods, recieved greater cooperation from the government, less leisure time than West	64
6698139717	Japanese culture	Pop culture focused on baseball, tennis, and golf. Traditional fused with Western, continued Tea ceremonis, Kabuki, and Non theater	65
6698139718	Hiraoka Kimitoke	Protested western influence by commiting seppuku	66
6698139719	Japanese society	Focused on domestic duties, birth control and abortion were promoted to slow population growth, government sponsored chopstick training	67
6698139720	Douglas Macarthur	Headed occupational government in Japan, offensive military forces were abolished, Island Hopping	68
6698139721	Liberal Democratic Party	Dominated politics in Japan in mid to late 20th century	69
6698272441	Fall of USSR	Baltic republics declared independence, replaced with the Commonwealth of Independent States	70
6698272442	Boris Yeltsin	Elected president of Russian Republic, became the leader of the CIS	71
6698272443	Vladimir Putin	Ethnic conflicts, especially in Chechnya	72
6698272444	Gorbachev	Introduced reforms to limit soviet decline, Reforms had a greater impact outside of Russia than within	73
6698272445	Glasnost	Openess, suggested new freedoms to criticize the government	74
6698272446	Perestroika	Economic restructing, encouraged greater private ownership	75
6698272447	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan	Invaded to support communists in civil war, withdrew after failiure to establish communism, Islamic fighters credit this war as bringing down Soviet Union	76
6698272448	Solidarity in Poland	Labor movement challeneged soviet control, Lech Walesa came to power, freer elections and rise of solidarity party	77
6698272449	Alexander Dubeck (Czech)	Stood against the soviets	78
6698272450	Prague Spring	Liberalized Czechoslavakia - soviets invaded, nonviolent protest, split into Czech Republic and Slovakia	79
6698272451	Space Race	Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin first man in space	80
6698272452	USSR Alliance	Established world power through alliances, aided communist party in China, gained part of Vietnam, friendly ties with Cuba	81
6698346299	Totalitarianism	The Great Purge Culminated, resulted in many deaths, Ministry of Internal Affairs served as Stalin's secret police	82
6698346300	Joseph Stalin	Collectivization of farms, Most Kulaks refused to cooperate and were killed or sent to Siberia	83
6698428261	Five Year Plan	Joseph Stalin's plan, focused on heavy industry, became world's third industrial powers	84
6698428262	Russian Civil War	Devastated the Russian economy, Red Army defeated White Army(supported by US France Great Britain Japan)	85
6698428263	Lenin's Economic Policy	Aimed at allieviating the stress on peasants, allowed them to keep their surplus, recognized these reforms were capitalist but called it "State capitalism"	86
6698428264	October Revolution	Tsar Nicholas 2 abolished Duma, he was overthrown by numerous groups, placed Lenin in power	87
6698428265	Brest-Litovsk	Lenin negotiated peace with the Germans	88
6698428266	Family life in Soviet Union	Became more like west, childhood education was promoted, women worked industriap jobs, nuclear family more common	89
6698428267	Soviet Culture	Literature focused on hardships of Civil war and WW2, Scientific research funded, Freudalism banned	90
6698428268	Soviet Society	Schools taught religion was a myth, western art was denounced, socialist realism glorified working class life, strong competitors in Olympics	91
6698479083	Quebecois Seperatist Movement	Peaceful, Quebec wanted to seperate from Canada, concerned with maintaining french catholic heritage, two referendums (both failed)	92
6698479084	Military Industrial complex	Political and monetary relationship between legislations, military, and military based industry, popular for US in cold war	93
6698479085	Anti Nuclear Movement	Nuclear disarmment, bolstered by Cheronobyl	94
6698479086	Western Politics in late 20th century	Student protests challenged government, South - Segregation, Colleges - Vietnam War	95
6698479087	Attacks on Welfare State	Reagan and Margaret Thatcher	96
6698479088	Promotion of Welfare state	Bill Clinton and Tony Blair	97
6698508368	New Deal	Increased the power of the state	98
6698508369	President Johnsons great society programs	Focused on medical assistance	99
6698508370	Technocrat	Bureaucrats versed in science, engineering, etc	100
6698547018	Influenza	Spanish reported the disease, were blamed for it, killed mostly young adults	101
6698547019	Norman Borlaug	Father of the Green Revolution, Engineered wheat for higher crop yields, saved many from famine	102
6698547020	Dada	Irrational art	103
6698547021	Margaret Sanger	Opened first birth control clinic (USA)	104
6698547022	Scientific Advances	Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Big Bang Theory, Psychology	105
6698547023	Iron Curtain	Churchills speech, communism	106
6698547024	Marshall Plan	Designed fo fund European nations that were threatened by Communism	107
6698637630	WW2 Peace Conferences: Tehran	Liberation of France, USSR invaded East Europe	108
6698637631	WW2 Peace Conferences: Yalta	USSR agreed to join war against Japan for territory in Manchuria, Germany divided	109
6698637632	WW2 Peace Conferences: Potsdam	Soviets gained control of eastern Poland, Poland recieved eastern part of Germany	110
6698637633	Island Hopping	USA was able to repel Japanese closer to Japan	111
6698637634	Stalingrad	Marked the climax of German eastward expansion	112
6698637635	WW2: Axis Powers	Germany Italy Japan	113
6698637636	WW2: Allied powers	Great Britain France Russia	114
6698637637	Beginning of WW2	Hitler invades Poland, France and Britain declare war on Germany in response	115
6698637638	Fascism	Focused on nationalism and authoritarian, developed in Italy and Germany	116
6698637639	Benito Mussolini	Sought Italian imperial glory (Ethiopia)	117
6698637640	Hideki Tojo	Japan ruler that made Japan ultranationalist, sought Manchuria	118
6698637641	Arab Nationalism	Nationalists rebelled against Ottoman empire	119
6698637642	Balfour Declaration	Promised Jews Israel	120
6698693987	WW1: Eastern Front	Russia vs Germany in Poland	121
6698693988	WW1: Western Front	Germany vs France and Britain in France	122
6698693989	WW1: Third front	Developed when Italy joined the war on the side of the French and British	123
6698727193	German U-Boats and Zimmerman Telegram	Brought US into WW1	124
6698727194	Cause of WW1	Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand, Austria declares war on Serbia	125
6698727195	Pan-Slavism	Promited relations between Russia and Slavic groups such as the Siberians	126
6698727196	Early Alliances in WW1	1: Great Britain France Russia 2: Germany Austria-Hungary Italy	127