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AP 5th
6 weeks
Question | Answer |
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space telescope that circles earth - free of atmosphere - took astrophysics to another level | Hubble Space Telescope |
Permanent human presence outside earth combined five space agencies US,USSR, European, Japanese, Canada teamwork through science | International Space Station |
post industrial economies that provide services to consumer culture white collar job move away from factory labor | service industries |
1957 First Soviet satellite into space set off space race threat by both sides of nuclear attack from space | Sputnik |
most important movement since Renaissance objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form | cubism |
not Catholicism personal experience of conversion, biblically oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues | evangelical |
Japanese cinema elaborate make-up, singing, drama | Kabuki theater |
wealth now spent on surplus items consumer goods industrialized world spends a ton of money bringing their world from a 10>11 instead of bringing everyone else up from a 0>1 | mass consumerism |
American feminist group founded 1966 dedicated to lobbying for women's fertility, employment, marital, education rights | National Organization for Women(NOW) |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to turn US into welfare state to bring out of Depression state-sponsored programs for relief, recovery and reform | New Deal |
Japanese classical theater musical during meiji reached offical drama status | Noh theater |
new activism of western European state in economic policy and welfare issues after WWII; reduced impact of economic inequality (avoid another world war) | welfare state |
introduction of improved seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation to produce higher crop yields; after WWII in densely pop Asian countries | Green Revolution |
Legal workers with no rights for citizenship/permanent recidency who immigrate for work; a threat to citizens for job ; usually from a less developed country developed country | guest workers |
caused by industrial revolution due to high pollutions | ozone depletion |
Alliance of Germany,Italy, and Japan during World War II. | Axis Powers |
mass expulsion or killings of a certain ethnic or religious group; eg. WWII: the holocaus, massive killings of Tutsis by Hutus in the Rwandan Genocide. | Ethnic cleansing |
Young turk leaders killed millions and sent hundreds of Amermenians to Russia and Middle East to cover up the blunders of reverses on the Russian Front | Armenian genocide 1915 |
mountainous country in the western Balkans | Bosnia |
two sets of trials for the Nazis from WWII and the holocaust; included commanders, industrialists, and medical doctors | Nuremberg war crimes trial |
a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy | Limited War |
the United Nations starting a military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order | UN police action |
area in the Balkans; region where the wars would begin such as the assassination of Franz Ferdinand | "Powder keg of Europe" |
to retaliate in a greater force; the ending of WWII by the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima | massive retaliation |
overthrowing of the Tsarist regine; 1918 (3rd Russian Revolution):series of anarchist rebellions and uprisings against both the Bolsheviks and the White movement | Russian Revolution 1917 |
Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (following the victory of the Spanish Civil War) | General Francisco Franco |
Nickname for Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)shooting down nuclear weapons from space never actually worked, but scared USSR into economic bankruptcy | Star Wars |