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APWH 1914-1990
1914-1990
Term | Definition |
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New Modes of Communication and Transportation | Solved problems of geographic distance. |
The Green Revolution | Spread the use of chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture, producing more food. |
Energy Technologies | Raised productivity and increased production of material goods. |
Global Warming | Consequence of greenhouse gases and other pollutants in the atmosphere. |
Deforestation and Desertification | Human impacts on the environment. |
Improved military technology and tactics | Increased levels of wartime casualties. |
Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, and Kwame Nkrumah | Challenged Imperial rule in Africa and Asia. |
Population Resettlements in India Partion and the Jewish settlement in Palestine caused by | Redrawing of old colonial boundaries. |
World War 1 | Lasted between 1914 and 1918. |
World War 2 | Lasted between 1939 and 1945 |
Propoganda | Things such as speeches, art, media and intensified forms of nationalism were used to control the people. |
The Cold War | The period after WW2, usually between Russia and the U.S. usually between capitalism and communism |
Russia and America | Emerging World Superpowers. |
Dissolution of Soviet Union | Ended the Cold War. |
Revolutions in physics and physchology | The Uncertainty principle and Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory. |
New expirementations in art and architecture | The abolition of the sovereignty of apperance. New art styles such as abstract art were created. |
The United Nations | An organization formed in 1945 and dedicated to world peace along with international cooperation. |
The League of Nations | Established in the year 1920 with the goal of world peace and cooperation. |
The Great Depression | An era of international economic crisis, preceding World War 2 by about a decade and with most countries recovering with its end. |
NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A military alliance between countries created because of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. |
The Warsaw Pact | A military alliance between the countries of the Soviet Union, its main purpose was to pool the resources of all of the countries. |
Fascism | An ideology promoting a mass mobilization of the whole nation. |
Nationalism | An ideology that provides a strong national identity. |
Communism | An ideology that countries should have no classes or money, and instead have equal and common ownership. |
Apartheid | Racial Segregation in South Africa lasting between 1948 and 1970 |