AP World History Vocab Period 6 Flashcards
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| 9172817727 | Proletariat | The laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live. |  | 0 |
| 9172817728 | Socialism | A stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done. |  | 1 |
| 9172817729 | Marxism | The political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially : a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society |  | 2 |
| 9172820300 | Communist Manifesto | A pamphlet (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: first statement of the principles of modern communism. |  | 3 |
| 9172820301 | Romanticism | A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. |  | 4 |
| 9172836197 | Realism | Concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. | 5 | |
| 9172836198 | Suffragists | One who advocates extension of the right to vote especially to women. |  | 6 |
| 9172839361 | Natural Selection | A natural process that results in the survival and reproductive success of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment and that leads to the perpetuation of genetic qualities best suited to that particular environment. |  | 7 |
| 9172839362 | Social Darwanism | The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. |  | 8 |
| 9172842734 | Imperialism | The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas; broadly : the extension or imposition of power, authority, or influence. |  | 9 |
| 9172842735 | Indirect Rule | A system of government of one nation by another in which the governed people retain certain administrative, legal, and other powers. | 10 | |
| 9172845541 | Direct Rule | A system of government in which a province is controlled by a central government. | 11 | |
| 9172845542 | Assimilation | The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of another group. |  | 12 |
| 9172851710 | "White Man's Burden" | The alleged duty of the white peoples to manage the affairs of the less developed nonwhite peoples | 13 | |
| 9172854704 | Scramble for Africa | The invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. |  | 14 |
| 9172857843 | Berlin Conference | A meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization. |  | 15 |
| 9172857844 | Opium War | A war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking. | 16 | |
| 9172860697 | Taiping Rebellion | Broke out in south China in the 1850s and early 1860s; led by Hong Xiuquan, a semi-Christianized prophet; sought to overthrow Qing dynasty and Confucian basis of scholar-gentry | 17 | |
| 9172860698 | Open Door Policy | A statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. | 18 | |
| 9172863278 | Boxer Rebellion | Officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. | 19 | |
| 9172863279 | Meiji Restoration | A turning point in Japanese history in 1868 when the last shogun was overthrown and the emperor assumed direct control over the nation. Marked by Japan's opening to the West and the establishment of a strong centralized government. | 20 | |
| 9172868092 | Conscription | Compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service. |  | 21 |
| 9172868093 | Militarism | A policy of aggressive military preparedness. |  | 22 |
| 9172870982 | Trench Warfare | Warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglements. |  | 23 |
| 9172870983 | Total War | a war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted | 24 | |
| 9172875133 | War Guilt Clause | The opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. It was a statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I. |  | 25 |
| 9172875134 | Reparations | the payment of damages specifically : compensation in money or materials payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation | 26 | |
| 9172878305 | Mandates | an official order or commission to do something. | 27 | |
| 9172881438 | Schlieffen Plan | a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. |  | 28 |
| 9172881439 | 14 Points | The fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 1918. The "association of nations" Wilson mentioned became the League of Nations |  | 29 |
| 9172884199 | Treaty of Versailles | Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy negotiated the treaty at the Peace Conference held in Versaille beginning on January 18, 1919. |  | 30 |
| 9172887558 | League of Nations | political organization established by the Allied powers at the end of World War I | 31 | |
| 9172890549 | Triple-Alliance | the alliance in WWI from (1882-1915) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. |  | 32 |
| 9172890550 | Triple-Entente | The alliance in WWI of .Britain, France, Russia, Italy(In 1915), United States, Japan. |  | 33 |
| 9172895260 | Great Depression | The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. | 34 | |
| 9172899121 | Totalitarianism | The system of government that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority. | 35 | |
| 9172902542 | Fascism | a political philosophy, movement, or regime that people are looked as a bundle-one body and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader |  | 36 |
| 9172902543 | Lebensraum | Territory believed especially by Nazis to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency | 37 | |
| 9172909363 | Collectivization | A political or economic theory advocating collective control especially over production and distribution of farming; also : a system marked by such control | 38 | |
| 9172912275 | Kristallnacht | Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted by Nazis, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps. | 39 | |
| 9172915775 | Munich Pact | An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated on behalf of Britain, and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on behalf of Germany. |  | 40 |
| 9172915776 | Appeasement | a policy of appeasing an enemy or potential aggressor by making concessions | 41 | |
| 9172922135 | Non-Aggression Pact | A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland. | 42 | |
| 9172933502 | Blitzkrieg | War conducted with great speed and force; specifically : a violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination. |  | 43 |
| 9173021653 | Nuremberg Trials | A series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during World War II. |  | 44 |
| 9172933503 | Final Solution | The Nazi program for extermination of all Jews in Europe. | 45 | |
| 9172936495 | Island Hopping | To travel from island to island in a chain |  | 46 |
| 9172936496 | Truman Doctrine | the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection |  | 47 |
| 9172936497 | Marshall Plan | A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. | 48 | |
| 9172940082 | NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. |  | 49 |
| 9172940083 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. | 50 | |
| 9172943094 | Containment | the policy, process, or result of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology. |  | 51 |
| 9172943095 | Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation becomes Communist-controlled the neighboring nations will also become Communist-controlled |  | 52 |
| 9172946219 | M.A.D. | Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. |  | 53 |
| 9172946220 | Iron Curtain | A political, military, and ideological barrier that cuts off and isolates an area; specifically, often capitalized : one formerly isolating an area under Soviet control. | 54 | |
| 9172950086 | Vietcong | A guerrilla member of the Vietnamese Communist movement. | 55 | |
| 9172961202 | Détente | the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries | 56 | |
| 9172965263 | Contras | a member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979-90, and was supported by the US for much of that time. It was officially disbanded in 1990, after the Sandinistas' electoral defeat. | 57 | |
| 9172965264 | Glasnost | the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 | 58 | |
| 9172969139 | Great Leap Forward | an effort made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedong to transform China into a society capable of competing with other Western industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period. | 59 | |
| 9172969140 | Cultural Revolution | A comprehensive reform movement in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1966 to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the country's institutions and leadership. It was characterized by political zealotry, purges of intellectuals, and social and economic chaos. | 60 | |
| 9172973285 | Civil Disobedience | Refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government | 61 | |
| 9172976538 | Iranian Revolution | The 1979 overthrow of Iran's monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic. |  | 62 |
| 9172976539 | Apartheid | Racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa | 63 | |
| 9172980412 | Camp David Accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter: signed in 1979. | 64 | |
| 9172980413 | OPEC | The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil-exporting nations. was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. |  | 65 |
| 9173021652 | A.N.C. | the African National Congress: a political party in South Africa that for many years fought against the system of apartheid. In 1994, the ANC formed the first government in South Africa to be elected by both black and white people and it has stayed in power since then. | 66 |