AP World History Final Flashcards

6919252102	John Calvin	Renaissance political theorist	0
6919259712	Moveable type	Invention of Johannes Gutenberg	1
6919262550	95 Theses	Document written by Martin Luther	2
6919269416	Importance of Copernicus	Studied astronomy	3
6919273760	Importance of Kepler	Important figure of scientific revolution	4
6919284910	Importance of Galileo	Studied planetary motion	5
6919291842	John Locke	English philosopher who valued reason	6
6919322600	Aurangzeb	Leader of Conquistadors against Aztecs	7
6919324243	Treaty of Toresillas	Separated land between Spain and Portugal	8
6919335661	Role of viceroys	The king's agent; normally a high-ranking Spanish noble	9
6919346572	Creoles	Spanish whites born and raised in the New World	10
6919350156	Peninsulares	Spanish whites living in the New World but born in Spain	11
6919353385	Triangular Trade	Trade between Africa, New World, and Europe; slaves went to America for sugar and tobacco to Europe	12
6919360011	Middle Passage	Traumatic slave voyage from Africa and the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean	13
6919373626	Ivan the Terrible	Nickname for Ivan IV	14
6919380330	Role of viziers	Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after 5th century often more powerful than the sultan	15
6919387654	Savafid Empire	Muslim empire that ruled Persia	16
6919394563	Aurangzeb	Indian ruler who tried to purify Islam	17
6919394564	Indian Ocean	Body of water that was center of Asian trade	18
6919397967	American Revolution	1775-1783	19
6919399233	French Revolution	1789-1799	20
6919403551	Napoleon Bonaparte	Ruler of French Empire at the end of the French Revolution	21
6919407635	Importance of Louis Pasteur	Studied microbiology	22
6919411556	American Civil War	1861-1865	23
6919414608	Karl Marx	Policital theorist	24
6919419315	Albert Einstein	Founded the law of realitivity	25
6919424487	Monroe Doctrine	American declaration stated in 1823 that established any attempt of a European country to colonize in the Americas as an unfriendly act by the United States	26
6919444710	Triple Entente	Russia, Britain, France	27
6919447190	Triple Alliance	Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary	28
6919450806	Sepoys	Indian troops that served the British East India Company	29
6919453215	British Raj	British political establishment in India; developed because of a rivalry between France and Britain in India	30
6919473507	Boers	Dutch settlers in Southern Africa	31
6919478686	Toussaint L'ouverture	Former slave from Haiti	32
6919489324	Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna	Leader of Mexican Independence	33
6919493577	Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo	Agreement that ended the Mexican-American War	34
6919505257	Panama Canal under U.S. control	The U.S. paid millions of dollars for the construction of the canal	35
6919508956	Importance of Suez Canal	Created an easier trade route from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean	36
6919512224	Opium War	Fought between the British and China beginning in 1839; fought to protect British trade in opium and resulted in British victory, opening of Hong Kong as a Britishtrading port	37
6919527170	Boxer Rebellion	Outburst aimed at expelling foreigners from China	38
6919540141	Communism	Lenin's political party	39
6919543987	U.S. came by ship	U.S. first opened up trade in Japan	40
6919547580	Francis Ferdinand	Archduke of Austria-Hungary that was assassinated to start WW1	41
6919554019	Russian leader before revolution	Vladimir Lenin	42
6919556621	Result of Versailles Treaty	Entrance of WW1	43
6919569260	Benito Mussolini	Founder of Italian Fascism	44
6919570139	Stalin	Russian leader after Lenin	45
6919588055	Mao Zedong	Leader of Chinese communist party	46
6919590126	Adolf Hitler	Leader of National Social Party in Germany	47
6919590934	Holocaust	Mass genocide and "Final Solution" to kill the opposition and inferior races off	48
6919595453	Pearl Harbor	U.S. entry into WW2	49
6919596961	United Nations	Replacement for the League of Nations	50
6919605275	Yalta Agreement	Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1945	51
6919613014	Apartheid	Policy of strict racial segregation	52
6919632458	Cold War countries	United States, Soviet Union, and Cuba	53
6919635873	Iron Curtain	Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946	54
6919641605	Marshall Plan	Financial aid	55
6919648539	Berlin Wall construction	Built in 1961 to halt the flow of immigration from East Berlin to West Berlin; torn down at end of Cold War in 1991	56
6919658973	Solidarity movement	In Poland	57
6919665887	Soviet missiles in Western Hemisphere	Located in Cuba	58
6919669455	Cuban Revolution of 1950	Fidel Castro took over Cuba	59
6919671973	Indira Gandhi	Daughter of Jawaharla Nehru; installed as a figurehead prime minister and central figure in Indian politics	60
6919690374	Ayatollah Khomeini	Religious ruler of Iran who tried to eliminate western influences and establish a purely Islamic government	61
6919698309	Saddam Hussein	Former president of Iraq	62
6919714757	Nelson Mandela	First black president of South Africa	63