AP World History: Modern test

AP test prep

___ was a technological innovation that allowed people to hear a message firsthand, rather than relying on a newspaper.

Radio

While ___ had been used before , they were more widely distributed and prevented more deaths from 1900 to present.

Vaccines

___ turned to banking, finance and IT as it turned toward a Knowledge Economy.

Japan

The ___ is responsible for over 90% of international trade.

WTO (World Trade Organization)

The ___ is a foundational document of the UN and ensure basic human rights for all people of the world.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

___ is an African movement supported by arts and poetry that celebrates blackness.

negritude

In India, the ___ assured that even the lowest class of Dalits would be provided jobs.

Caste Reservation System

___ is local environmental movement in Kenya, mostly involving women.

Green Belt Movement

___ was an anti-WTO protest in 1999.

Battle for Seattle

___ in China is a local social media platform that seeks to protect citizens from Western ideas.

Weibo

How would a MILITARY historian explain the behavior of Russia/USSR after 1945?

russia had been invaded, many times, and they wanted secure borders.

NATO emerged during the Cold War to

use collective security by the US and Europe to stop communism.

USA developed nukes, then USSR did. Then UK, France, followed by China, India, Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea. Term?

Nuclear Proliferation

Which East Asian leader led a revolution which turned China into a Communist nation in 1949?

Mao Zedong

Which aspect of land reform saw the creation of communes?

Nationalization of Farming

Examine the chart. Was Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (1958 to 1962) an economic success?

No, because it failed to improve China's economy

What was the MOST immediate consequence of the collapse of Communism in the USSR?

The Cold War between the US and USSR ended.

Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata fought for more equitable land distribution in what revolution?

mexican

In the Russian Revolution that began in 1917, what ruling dynasty was overthrown?

romanov

Leader of the Bolsheviks (Communists) during the Russian Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

What was the primary reason that the United States chose to enter WW I on the side of the Allies?

Unrestricted German submarine attacks on US merchant ships

Who was the first dictator to implement the ultra-nationalist political ideology of Fascism?

Benito Mussolini

Japan's invasion of China in 1937 had what effect on the Chinese Civil War?

it created a ceasefire between the communists and nationalists