Chapter 39 AP World History Flashcards

9732283399	Decolonization	The process by which former colonies gain their independence from the mother country	0
9732283400	Diaspora	the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel	1
9732283401	Economic Dependency	Being dependent on another country for your economy. This is what happened to many ex-colonies.	2
9732283402	Geneva Conference	A 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel	3
9732283403	Great Leap Forward	Mao Zedong's attempt to build Chinese industry and agriculture from 1958-1961	4
9732283404	Harijans	means "children of God" and was Gandhi's designation for the untouchables	5
9740474558	Iran-Iraq War	Fought over religious differences, this war lasted many years, from 1980 to 1988	6
9740474559	Kikuyu	The largest ethnic group in Kenya (Mau Mau)	7
9740474560	Liberation Theology	the combining of Christian principles with political activism, often Marxist in character	8
9740474561	Organization of African Unity	OAU - established in 1963 and promoted Pan-Africanism and eliminated colonialism	9
9740474562	Palestinian Liberation Organization	Organization created for the purpose of creating an Arab state in Palestine and to fight for Palestinian rights - PLO	10
9740474563	Pax Americana	a state of relative international peace regarded as overseen by the US	11
9740474564	Sandinistas	Leftwing anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua who launched a civil war in 1979 and overthrew the Somoza dictatorship	12
9740474565	Sikhs	Nonviolent religous group that blended Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism	13
9740474566	Suez Crisis	crisis in which Britain and France attempted to seize control of the Suez canal from Egypt	14
9740474567	Tiananmen Square	Square in the capital of Beijing; scene of a student demonstration and massacre	15
9740474568	Viet Minh	Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during Word War II and the French afterward	16