AP World History Chapter 23 Flashcards
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9771675760 | al-qaeda | international org. of fundamentalist islamic militants headed by Osama bin Laden | 0 | |
9771684305 | anti-globalization | major international movement that protests the development of the global economy on the grounds that is makes the rich richer and the poor in poverty | 1 | |
9771688336 | osama bin laden | leader of al-qaeda | 2 | |
9771691535 | rachel carson | american environmentalist and marine biologist | 3 | |
9771701280 | environmentalism | movement to preserve the natural world (20th century) | 4 | |
9771718605 | fundamentalism | occurs within major world religions; a self-proclaimed return to the fundamentals/roots of a religion, marked by a militant piety and exclusivism | 5 | |
9771744794 | global warming | worldwide scientific consensus that increasing the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation lead to the warming of the earth | 6 | |
9771762065 | che guevara | argentina-born revolutionary. waged guerrilla war in an effort to invoke social change | 7 | |
9771783460 | hindutva | fundamentalist hindu movement | 8 | |
9771790534 | neo-liberalism | favored reduced tariffs, truly free market and economy | 9 | |
9771809424 | north/south gap | global north vs global south (developed vs developing countries.) | 10 | |
9771820993 | prague spring | sweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968, movement was crushed by a Soviet invasion | 11 | |
9771863832 | reglobalization | idea of quickening economic transactions after WWII | 12 | |
9771869052 | second-wave feminism | women's rights movement revived, end of patriarchal domination | 13 | |
9771905698 | transnational corporations | businesses that supply to all over the world | 14 | |
9771911708 | green revolution | program of improved irrigation methods. introduction of high-yield seeds and fertilizers. | 15 |