AP World History - Units 7 and 8 parts 3 & 4 and Unit 9 Questions (notebooks 52 to 57)

What was the economic plan the Soviets used to industrialize relatively quickly? 

Five-year Plan

Why did Mao not like their plan after Stalin’s death?

Too capitalist

What was the name of Mao’s plan to industrialize China in the 1950s and 1960s?

the great leap forward

Provide an example of the change this movement brought to the Chinese economy.

no factories or experts, peasants manufactured steel

When this movement was unsuccessful, Mao attempted to start a movement to increase his popularity.  What was the name of this movement? 

the cultural revolution

What type of people did this movement target?

anti-revolutionaries,teachers,experts

What was the name of the leader who took over after Mao’s death in 1976?  

Deng Xiaoping

Provide two changes he brought to the Chinese economy.  

privatized farms,free market economies

 Why were many citizens of China unhappy in 1989?  

no democracy or individual freedoms

Where did the protests form against the communist regime? 

Tienanmen square Beijing

How did Deng and Communist Party respond to the protests?

deployed full  military force on the protesters

 How did the US and UN respond to Deng and the Communist Party’s actions?  

sanctions and outrage

 This was the name of the movement followed by the Egyptian leader which called for the cooperation and potential unification of all Arabs. 

Pan abrasim

When this movement was unsuccessful, Mao attempted to start a movement to increase his popularity.  What was the name of this movement? 

the cultural revolution

  This was the crisis in which Israel, Britain, and France attempted to take back the Suez Canal, and other land from Egypt.

Suez crisis

This was the name for the movement of countries that desired not to take part in the Cold War.  

non-alignment third world

Provide five example countries that chose not to partake in the Cold War.

Ghana

Egypt

Indonesia

india

yugoslavia,china,cuba

This was the name of the economic crisis in the 1970s where inflation rose faster than wages, despite relatively good employment rates.  

stagflation

23.  When Keynesian spending failed, what was the new strategy implemented to solve the economic crisis?  

Austerity

24-25. Provide two world leaders who propounded this economic movement.  

Ronald Reagan

Margaret Thatcher

26. This is the name for the segregation program employed in South Africa until the 1990s. 

Apartheid

27. This was the civil rights leader who was imprisoned for opposing segregation in South Africa and later became president of South Africa once segregation had been lifted and he was released from prison. 

Nelson Mandela

28. This is the leader of Indonesia who helped lead resistance against the Dutch and also led the charge on uniting countries against accepting aid or interference from the United States or Soviet Union during the Cold War. 

Sukarno

29. This is the Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 who employed a protectionist economic policy that was socialist in nature. 

Nehru

30. This is the name of the sovereignty movement that took place in Nigeria in the 1960s and continues to this day. 

Biafra

31. This is the name of the sovereignty movement that took place and continues this day in French Canada. 

Quebec

32. This is the name of the conflict fought by the Khmer Rouge that attempted to take territory from Vietnam that contained the Khmer people in the 1970s. 

Cambodia-Vietnamese War

33. This is a series of conflicts that take place near modern Israel as ethnic Arabs and ethnic Jews struggle over territorial boundaries and settlements since the 1940s. 

Arab-Israeli conflict

34. Resource of the 20th century 

petroleum

35. Impact of 20th century modes of communication and energy 

Reduced the geographic distance

36-41. 20th century medical advances 

Vaccines

anesthetics

defibrillators

antibiotics

prenatal and birth improvements

42-44. 20th century diseases in poorer regions 

tuberculosis

malaria

ebola

45-49. 20th century diseases in developed countries 

HIV/AIDS

cancer

Alzheimer’s disease

heart disease

diabetes

50-51.Two opposition movements to mass industrialization 

Anti nuclear movement

green belt movement

52-53. What is the Green Belt Movement and what is its focus? 

The organization takes a holistic approach to a development focusing on environmental conservation

community development and capacity building.

54. What is the Green Belt Movement’s mission? 

mobilize community consciousness for self determination justice equity reduction of poverty and environmental conservation using trees as the entry point also incorporating advocacy empowerment for women,ecotourism

55-58. Extinction rates in animals increased due to 

overhunting

pollution

loss of environment

deforestation

59-60. Two factor that led to globalization 

internet

computer networking

61-63. Three trade organizations 

WTO

NAFTA

EU

64-65. What is the EEC engaged in and what were its results? 

Free trade and jobs movement between citizens

resulted in substantial economic growth

66-67. What is the purpose of the European Union and when was it formed? 

allowing citizens of all countries to freely trade, work

move between European countries with a unified European citizenship and common currency 1993

68. Organization that presents a platform in which countries can debate and decide what sort of trade agreements, tariffs should be implemented? 

The world trade organization (WTO)

69-70. What is NAFTA about and what countries are involved? 

Allows companies and businesses in North America to trade without any coast or barriers

north american free trade Act

71-72. What is ASEAN and what does it promote? 

regional intergovernmental organization an comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic political security military educational and sociocultural and sociocultural intefration among its member and other countries in Asia

The association of southeast asian nations

73.  What is a global economy about? 

Knowledge economy

What jobs were traditionally associated with the middle class and what happened to them? 

assembly line workers, data processors, foremen

supervisors beginning to disappear, either through outsourcing or automation

What are mind workers? What are examples of mind workers?  What job will people have to settle for if they are unable to join the mind workers group? 

engineers, doctors, attorneys, teachers, scientists, executives,

settle for low-skill, low-wage service jobs

Where have traditional middle class jobs migrated to and why? 

Asia, Africa, and Latin America

low wages and low cost of production and due to globalization and trade agreements

What are examples of multinational corporations? 

Nestlé,Nissan Mahindra 

 What does a Global culture refer to? 

the transmission of ideas,meanings and values around the world and is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been defused by the internet popular culture media and international travel

What are the best mechanisms for facilitating developments in Global culture? 

International media companies

What does consumer culture focus on? 

The spending of the customers money on material goods to attain a lifestyle in a capitalist economy

84. What is E-commerce and give examples. 

Commercial transactions conducted electronically on the internet

Alibaba and eBay

85. What are global brands? 

the name of a product or service that is known and sold in all parts of the world by a particular company

86-96. Results of globalization 

large amounts of economic growth

a drastic reduction in world poverty

raised living standards

increased lifespans

peace through interdependence

a greater sense of unity and cooperation

allowed culture to spread throughout the world in a way never thought possible through mainstream cinema and music and cinema movement and caribbean reggae music

96-99. Reasons for opposition to globalization. 

Exploitation of labor

environmental damage

cultural hegemony

100. What is the United Nations General Assembly? 

They vote to determine policies

101. What is the function of the UN Security Council? 

charged with ensuring international peace and security

102-103. What did the UN General Assembly pass in 1948 and what are its goals? 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

guaranteeing freedom, equality, and rights to all world citizens

104-105. How did the Catholic Church seek to reshape its image in the 1960s and what were its focus? 

Liberation Theology

focuses more on kindness, giving

aid to the poor, and an acceptance of other religions