Global Studies Regents Vocabulary

Comprehensive vocabulary list of terms and historical concepts for the Global Studies Regents exam.

Primary Source

eyewitness account. "I" was there.

Political Scientist

Government

Totalitarian

All power 1 person rule. Dictator

OPEC

oil. Middle East

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

written as response to Holocaust

Holocaust

6 million Jews Killed by Nazis/Hitler concentration camps

Green Revolution

new ways of farming

Agriculture

Farming

Apartheid

Legal racial segregation

Afrikkaner

South African white minority

Domestic

at home

F.W. de Klerk

Afrikkaner South African President ended apartheid w/ Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

ended apartheid. South Africa

League of Nations

Failed

Natural Rights

Life, Liberty, Property

John Locke

Natural Rights

Italian unification

Nationalism

Nationalism

Pride / love for your country

Opium War

Chinese vs. British (won) Treaty of Nanking.

Immediate cause of WWI

assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Iron Curtain

Communist. Cold war

Propaganda

Brainwash

Communist

Govt controls all

Berlin Conference

Africa. partition

Zionism

Jewish homeland in Middle East

Bourgeosie

Middle class

Laissez-Faire

Hands off Govt/ Business

Mao

communist. Cultural Rev

Warsaw Pact

soviet union response to NATO

Migration

move

Napoleon AND Hitler's Failures in Russia

Harsh Climate

Mandate

Colony

Sphere of Influence

Colony

Imperialism

strong country takes over weak country

Industrial Rev

Britain 1750

Historical Context

Cause

Contributing Factor

cause

Historical Development

Event

Imperialists want…

Resources New Markets

Estate System

Social class/French Rev

Absolute Monarchy

King/Queen. All power

Autocrat

all power

Tolerant

allow

Intolerant

doesn't allow

Directory

Republic

Republic

people power vote

Effect

Result

Burden

Problem

Suffrage

vote

Meiji

Modernize westernize

Export

send out

Import

bring in

Famine

hunger starvation

Tokugawa shogunate

isolated fell behind in tech

Boycott

won't do it

Patriotic

proud of country

Schlieffen Plan

WW1

Aims

goal

Purpose

reason

Partition

India

Detente

reduction in tension & nukes

Perestroika

allow capitalism. Gorbachev

Glasnost

openness. Gorbachev

Containment

Stop communism

Nonalignment

neutral

Berlin Airlift

Cold War

Shah Reza Pahlavi

Iran. modern/western/secular

Secularize

not religious

Domination

control

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

Dictator Oppression

Mikhail Gorbachev

Last USSR Pres during Cold War

Toussaint L'ouverture

Nationalist Haiti Kicked out French

Uprising

Revolt

Persuade

Convince

Limit

Less stop

Expand

Imperialism industrialize

Kemal Ataturk

Turkey modern western/secular

Industrialize

Factories

Ottoman Empire

Turkey

Consequence

After

United Nations (UN)

Peacekeeping org. after WW2

Armenian Massacre

Human Rights Violate. Genocide

Rwanda

HRV. Genocide. Hutus V. Tutsis

Scarcity

not enough

Profit

money

Economic

relating to money ($$)

Significance

Important