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AP World Final Exam Review
Causes
Marx, Lenin, Nicholas, Rasputin, Alexander Kerensky, Trotsky, Stalin
Outcome
Russian Revolution
Mandate System
GandhiIndian nationalist leader. where he spent 20 years
opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. Promoted mass non-violent civil disobedienceHe supported the Home Rule movement, and
became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.
First Prime Minister of an independent IndiaFather of Indira Gandhi
Nehru
US Involvement
Treaty of Versailles
Causes of World War I
Meeting among leaders of the U.S., Britain, and USSR in 1945
Discussed post war Europe
Yalta Conference
Help to establish an independent Turkish republic in 1923.
Modeled reforms off of Western idealsNew Latin alphabetWoman’s suffrage
Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk)
a Turkish nationalist reform party in the early twentieth century, favoring reformation of the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Empire.
Borrowed at some of their ideas from the earlier “Young Italy”
their leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II
They ruled the former Ottoman empire from 1908 until the end of World War I in November 1918.
Young Turks
Balfour Declaration
1958Efforts by Mao to revitalize the flagging revolution by restoring its mass, rural base.
Emphasis was place on self-reliance within the peasant communes
Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution is the name given to Mao’s attempt to reassert his beliefs in China
Mao deliberately set out to create a cult for himself and to purge the Chinese Communist Party of anyone who did not fully support Mao
Cultural Revolution
This is the Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation’s industry.
influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.
Zaibatsu
set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of business group.
The keiretsu maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the 20th century, but are beginning to lose their grip
Keirestsu
Head of Revolutionary Alliance, organization that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing dynasty in China
Briefly elected president in 1911, but yielded in favor of Yuan Shikai in 1912
Created Nationalist party of China in 1919; died in 1925.
Sun Yat-Sen
Polish politician who co-founded the solidarity trade-union movement
Persecuted by the Polish communist government
Solidarity movement and Lech Walesa
Robert Oppenheimer is often called the father of the atomic bombHe was the guiding physicist in the
development of the atomic bomb
The Manhattan Project
an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement
Jackson Pollock
an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known s pop art.
Andy Warhol
Japanese writerHis works, strongly influenced by French and
American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and social non-conformism
Kenzaburo Oe
How did European colonialism affect Africa?
The economically powerful city nation-states in south East Asia that came into formation in the last half of the 20th century. (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and, South Korea.)
“Little Tigers”
Pol PotCambodian Maoist revolutionary who led
the Khmer Rough from 1963-1998Imposed agrarian socialism: forced urban
dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects
Genocide21% of the population died1.7-2.5 million people out of 8 million died
from starvation or executions
Cambodia
2nd President of Egypt1956: Egypt vs. Britain, France, and IsraelNationalized the Suez Canal
Nasser
Israel vs. Jordan, Egypt, and SyriaIsrael won
Took Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt
West Bank and East Jerusalem from JordanGolan heights from Syria
Six Day War 1967
Israel attacked by Arab states led by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur
U.S. and U.S.S.R supplied each side, almost coming into direct conflict with each other
Israel WinsHumiliates the Arab World and show Israel
that they are vulnerable to attacks
Yom Kippur War 1973