AP World History Exam

Industrial Revolution

Poor living conditions, Crime increased throughout cites, Children worked in factories under horrible conditions, Inexpensive labor was needed.

Laissez-Faire

Government should not interfere with the economy

Karl Marx and Russian Revolution

Workers should rule the nation, economic class warfare

France

Greatest population in 1750

Britain 1800-1850

Belief in superior culture

Gandhi

Wanted independence from the British Government

United States

Not involve with imperializing Africa

France

controlled most of Nothern Africa

Liberia and Ethiopia

African states that remained free from imperialism

Telegraph

enabled the coordination of distant operation

Sepoy Rebellion

Unlawful opium trade was not a cause

White Mans Burden

Poem by Rudyard Kipling where the burden of the youth to go and serve those conquered.

Boxer Rebellion

Chinese Nationalist were unsuccessful in expelling foreigners

Austria-Hungary

Slavic population had no voice in government which led to ethnic and political conflicts.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Assassinated because of Nationalism which sparked WWI

Submarines

Turned WWI into a global war

New Technologies in WWI

Machine Gun, submarines, airplanes. Trenches used for protection from attack.

Otto Von Bismarck

Believed Germany should practice Militarism

Lenin

Created the slogan “Peace, Land, and Bread”, pulled Russia out of WWI, and gave land to peasants and food to its people.

Treat of Versailles

Germany resented “The War Guilt Clause”

Japan

Should conquer more territory to meet its needs.

Germany after WWI

Was not financially prosperous, people seek leaders to improve economy

Hitler and Mussolini

Supported Franco’s civil war in Spain

Hitler’s war effort

wanted to test Germany’s weapon

Mussolini

wanted to test Italy’s troop

Non-Aggression Pact

Helped Hitler avoid a two-front war with Russia

Appeasement

European policy democracies followed to avoid war.

Hitler

Nazi leaders address the Jewish question, implemented the Final Solution, was the leader the Germans seek to improve the economy.

Poland

Hitler invaded it so it causes Great Britain to declare war against Germany

Blitzkrieg

A new style of warfare Germany used to begin WWII

Winston Churchill

The British will never give up until victory is achieved

Final Solution

Hitler’s plant to exterminate all European Jews

Yalta Conference

Started the tensions for the Cold War

Battle of Stalingrad

The Soviet victory forced Germany to retreat

Holocaust

5,962,211 Jewish people killed, and Poland suffered the most death (did not occur during the Cold War)

Soviet Union after WWII

Turkey shared a border, and Latvia was added to the nation.

Nuremburg Trial

Nazi leaders were tried for War crimes.

Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima

Ended WWII but contributed to the Cold War

NATO

North American Treaty Organization

East European alliance

Soviet Union institutionalized

Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union formed

Fall of Berlin

1945-1991 ended the Cold War

Hungarian Uprising

Soviet Union begins retreat from Eastern Europe

Cold War Conflicts

Vietnam, Egypt, Congo, Chile

Terrorism

Since the end of Cold War, this was the greatest problem

Six Day War

Occurred between Cuban Missile Crisis and Landing on Moon.

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

Occurred in Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Rivalries between ethnic groups in Balkan.

US vs USSR for influence

Gave military and economic aid

United Nation

Critisized as being ineffective and controlled by US

Nelson Mandela

Spoke out against an oppressive Government, opposed and wanted end to Apartheid in South Africa, and imprisoned for over 25 years.

PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization and committed to the destruction of Israel.

Palestinian and Jews

Both favor democracy which is the only thing they agreed on.