Chapter 35 AP World History Flashcards

9675134687	Absolutism	A political system in which a ruler holds total power	0
9675146188	Ahimsa	Hindu belief in nonviolence and reverence for all life	1
9675155341	Anti-Semitism	A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races	2
9675166915	Bauhaus	a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1919 - design school founded in Germany	3
9675186413	Collectivization	a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government	4
9675198478	Conservatism	A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.	5
9675212226	Eugenics	Science dealing with improving hereditary qualities	6
9675218750	Fascism	an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.	7
9675232779	Five-Year Plans	plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy including increased industrial production	8
9675249758	Great Purge	A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power	9
9675262467	Guomindang	the Chinese political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen	10
9675271439	Harijans	means "children of God" and was Gandhi's designation for the untouchables	11
9675281657	Hinduism	A religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation	12
9675298974	India Act	British modification of self-rule (1937) that was offered to India after policy of repression failed	13
9675313238	Keynesianism	An economic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. John Maynard Keynes	14
9675334398	Kristallnact	"Night of Broken Glass" an anti-Jewish movement in November of 1938	15
9675341540	Kulaks	Wealthy peasants who resisted Stalin	16
9675347566	Lebensraum	Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people	17
9675365360	Long March	1934 retreat by Mao Zedong and his followers from the Guomindang	18
9675372867	May Fourth Movement	A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.	19
9688500949	New Deal	Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression	20
9688526774	New Economic Policy	1921 plan that permitted some capitalist activity in Russia in order to increase food production. Also known as NEP.	21
9688546610	Nuremberg Laws	1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.	22
9688573611	Paris Peace Accords	1973 cease-fire agreement where the US agreed to withdraw their troops from South Vietnam	23
9688595374	Planned Scarcity	an economic theory in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed	24
9688647168	Psychoanalytic Theory	Freud's theory that unconscious forces act as determinants of personality	25
9688677487	Satyagraha	literally means "truth force," it was Gandhi's name for his non-violent resistance	26
9688693511	Smoot-Hawley Tariff	High-tariff law that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930's	27
9688711195	Soviets	A Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.	28
9688725429	Theory of Relativity	(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts created by Albert Einstein	29
9688752018	Uncertainty Principle	Theory that suggests that all physical laws are based on doubt - Werner Heisenberg	30
9688774160	Urdu	official language of Pakistan	31
9688781918	War Communism	The Russian policy of nationalizing industry and seizing private land during the civil war.	32
9688796188	Weimar Republic	German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.	33