Chapter 22 and 23 AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 6107586281 | decolonization (3) | Process in which many African and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial rue (1), in most cases by negotiated settlement (1) with gradual political reforms (1) and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation | 0 | |
| 6608924121 | Indian National Congress (3) | Organization established in 1885 (1) by Western-educated elite Indians (1) in an effort to win a voice in the governance of India; the INC became a major popular movement that won India's independence from Britain (1). | 1 | |
| 6608928280 | Muslim League (3) | Created in 1906, was a response to the Indian National Congress (1) in India's struggle for independence from Britain; the League's leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1), argued that regions of India with a Muslim majority should form a separate state called Pakistan (1). | 2 | |
| 6608935925 | African National Congress (3) | South African political party established in 1912 (1) by elite Africans who sought to win full acceptance in colonial society (1); it gradually became a popular movement that came to control the government in 1994 (1). | 3 | |
| 6608940132 | Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal (3) | Founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey (1881-1938) (1); as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement (1), he made Turkey into a secular state (1). | 4 | |
| 6608944040 | second-wave feminism (4) | Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s (1); demanded equal rights for women in employment and education (1), women's right to control their own bodies (1), and the end of the patriarchal domination (1). | 5 | |
| 6608947751 | fundamentalism (3) | Occurring within all the major world religions (1), fundamentalism is a self-proclaimed return to the "fundamentals" (1) of a religion and is marked by a militant piety (1). | 6 | |
| 6608949923 | environmentalism (3) | Twentieth-century movement (1) to preserve the natural world (1) in the face of spiraling human ability to alter the world environment (1) | 7 | |
| 6608952338 | globalization (3) | The massive growth (1) in the international economic transactions (1) from around 1950 to the present (1). | 8 | |
| 6608954212 | World Trade Organization (3) | International body representing 149 nations (1) that negotiates the rules for global commerce (1) and is dedicated to the promotion of free trade (1) | 9 |