AP World History Final Flashcards

6871280637	Fourteen Points	A list of terms issued by president wilson to end world war 1 and prevent future wars	0
6871280638	Reparations	Payments for war damage	1
6871280639	Proletariat	A growing class of factory and railroad workers, minors, and urban wage earners	2
6871280640	Zeppelins	Large gas filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs	3
6871280641	Urbanization	The movement of people to cities	4
6871280642	Robert Owen	Utopian socialist who set up a model community in new Lanark, Scotland	5
6871280643	Enterprise	A business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories	6
6871280644	Turnpike	A private toll road	7
6871280645	Anesthetic	A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist	8
6871280646	Tenement	An apartment building for the working class	9
6871280647	Electorate	The body of people allowed to vote	10
6871280648	Manifest destiny	Idea that it was inevitable that the United States would expand across the continent	11
6871280649	Capital offense	A crime punishable by death	12
6871280650	Louisiana purchase	Land acquisition that doubled the size of the United States	13
6871280651	Coalition	An alliance of different political parties	14
6871280652	Home rule	Local self government	15
6871280653	Segregation	Legal separation of the races	16
6871280654	Genetic engineering	The manipulation of genetic material to produce specific results	17
6871280655	First artificial satellite	Sputnik	18
6871280656	Globalization	The process by which national economies, politics, and societies become integrated with those of other nations	19
6871280657	Outsourcing	Sending work to the developing world to save money	20
6871280658	Epidemic	A rapidly spreading disease	21
6871280659	Deforestation	The results of cutting down trees without replacing them	22
6871280660	Ngo Dinh Diem	American supported ruler of south Vietnam	23
6871280661	Detente	A relaxation of tensions	24
6871280662	Anti ballistic missiles	Seen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks	25
6871280663	Ho chi minh	Communist ruler of north Vietnam after 1954	26
6871280664	Domino theory	The belief that one communist victory would lead to many others	27
6871280665	Appeasement	Giving in to an aggressors demands to maintain peace	28
6871280666	Neutrality Acts	Intended to prevent us involvement in European war	29
6871280667	Anschluss	Hitler's plan for the union of Austria and Germany	30
6871280668	Yalta	Sore of allied war strategy meeting	31
6871280669	Blitzkrieg	Lightning war	32
6871280670	Pacifism	Opposition to all war	33
6871280671	Claude Monet	Impressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color	34
6871280672	Guglielmo Marconi	Invented the radio	35
6871280673	Alfred Nobel	Invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time	36
6871280674	Ludwig van Beethoven	Romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra	37
6871280675	Urban renewal	Rebuilding poor areas of a city	38
6871280676	Women's suffrage	Reform movement concerned with voting rights	39
6871280677	Louis Pasteur	Established a link between microbes and disease	40
6871280678	Qing	The new dynasty that ruled china after the decline of the king dynasty	41
6871280679	Goa	An island off the coast of India seized by the Portuguese	42
6871280680	Macao	A Portuguese trading post in ming china	43
6871280681	Ferdinand Magellan	Led an expedition that became the first to circumnavigate earth	44
6871280682	Moluccas	An island chain once called the spice islands	45
6871280683	Affonso 1	A ruler of Kongo who tried to halt the space trade in his lands	46
6871280684	Prince Henry	Led the way in sponsoring exploration in Portugal	47
6871280685	Osei Tutu	United his people by claiming that they shared spiritual bonds	48
6871280686	Rococo	Light and delicate artistic style popular during the reign of Louis XV	49
6871280687	Thomas Jefferson	Principal author of the Declaration of Independence	50
6871280688	Salon	Informal social gathering where enlightenment thinkers exchanged ideas	51
6871280689	Thomas Jefferson	Grand, ornate style of art and architecture popular during the age of Louis XIV	52
6871280690	Desmond tutu	An Anglican bishop who won the Nobel peace prize for leadership against apartheid	53
6871280691	Slobodan Milosevic	Serbian president who opposed albanians	54
6871280692	Hutus	The majority group in Rwanda	55
6871280693	Nelson Mandela	The first South African president elected after the end of apartheid	56
6871280694	Surrealism	An artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious	57
6871280695	Kulaks	A class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed	58
6871280696	Kristallnacht	Night of broken glass	59
6871280697	El Greco	A Greek painter who was a master of the Spanish style	60
6871280698	Boyars	Landowning Russian nobles under peter the great	61
6871280699	Mercenaries	Soldiers for hire	62
6871280700	Johann Gutenberg	Started a printing revolution	63
6871280701	Predestination	The idea that god long ago decided who would be saved and who would not	64
6871280702	Florence	The city that produced many renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family	65
6871280703	Nicolaus Copernicus	Proposed a heliocentric model of the universe	66
6871280704	Isaac newton	Showed that gravity keeps planets in orbit	67
6871280705	Guillotine	Method for carting out executions during the reign of terror	68
6871280706	Olympe de gouges	Executed for demanding equal rights for French women	69
6871280707	Plebiscite	Popular vote by ballot	70
6871280708	Mercantilism	An economic policy based a nation exporting more goods than it imports	71
6871280709	Viceroys	Those who ruled Spain's colonies in the name of the Spanish monarchs	72
6871280710	Encomiendas	A system used to force native Americans to labor under brutal conditions	73
6871280711	Entrepreneurs	People who take funicular risk to make profits	74