1900-Present Vocab List Notes

1900-Present Vocab List

Chapter 12

  • "Total War": This symbol indicates you should study trends, rather than the word itself.
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Armenian genocide
  • Russian Revolution
  • Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Collectivization of Agriculture
  • Kulaks
  • Five-year plans
  • Great Depression
  • New Deal
  • Fascism
  • Mussolini
  • Hitler (and party)
  • World War II
  • Holocaust
  • United Nations
  • Mao Zedong
  • Guomindang

Chapter 13

  • European Economic Community
  • Bretton Woods System
  • Marshall Plan
  • World Bank
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Cold War
  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Proxy Wars (in Cold War)
  • Non-aligned Movement
  • Egypt (pertaining to the Cold War)
  • Decolonization
  • Ideal of self-determination
  • Indian National Congress
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Muslim League
  • Jinnah
  • Vietnamese independence
  • Iranian Revolution

Chapter 14

  • Asian Tigers
  • Great Leap Forward
  • Cultural Revolution
  • Neoliberalism
  • World Trade Organization
  • NAFTA
  • Knowledge economy (part of service sector)
  • 1918 Influenza pandemic
  • Malaria & Tuberculosis
  • One child family policy
  • Women’s rights in Turkey
  • Women’s rights in Iran
  • Second wave feminism

Chapter 15

  • Community
  • *Population explosion
  • Green Revolution
  • *Global urbanization
  • *Migration
  • Informal economy (assoc. with poverty)
  • Alzheimer’s (assoc. with longevity)
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Feminism in the Global South
  • *Religious fundamentalism
  • Israel
  • Revolutionary Right
  • Hamas
  • Al -Qaeda
  • Anthropocene era
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Perestroika
  • Glasnost
  • Second-wave Environmentalism
  • Silent Spring
  • Greenpeace