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AP World Unit 6

AP World Unit 6 1914- 1990

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The Great War/World War I Europe starts war(1914).Europe obtains resources from the Ottoman Empire,Japan,and U.S. turning war global in scope.At end of war major European powers, including victorious exhaust economic wealth and political primacy(1918).
The Great Depression 1929 weakening of the global economy due to debts, lenders, want of raw materials, and agricultural depression.
Fascism A new political ideology of the 1920's, a form of totalitarian government.
Soviet Union State created in 1917 under communist leadership. From a series of five- year plans the S.U. was transformed into a major international power and became the first socialist state.
World War II Began in China(1931). Most European societies, almost all of Asia and the Pacific, and parts of Africa involved in war. The main powers the United states and the Soviet Union. Allied forces victorious(1945).
The Cold War A strategic struggle begins immediately after WWII,between the capitalist United States, the communist Soviet Union and their allied states.Conflict significantly contributed to global political change. Ends suddenly in late 1980s.
Axis- Powers Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan who fought against the allied forces in WWII. Aimed at breaking hegemony of Western powers and defending civilization from democracy.
The Holocaust Nazis encourage Jewish emigration and start slaughter of Jewish and other minorities, killing up to 6 million Jewish.
Truman Doctrine 1947, doctrine stating that the U.S. would support "free peoples resisting subjugation."
Black Thursday On October 24, 1929 stock prices drop.Investors lose all of their life savings.
Adolf Hitler An Austrian-born German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945. Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934-1945.
The New Deal Promoted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to protect banks, farms, and public works and establish minimum wage, social security, and worker's union.
Lusitania 1915, Germans sink British passenger liner. Afterwards U.S. declares war on Germany in 1917.
Paris Peace Accords Agreement reached in 1973 that marked the end of the United States' role in the Vietnam War.
Apartheid South African system of "separateness" that was implemented in 1948 and that maintained the black majority in position of political, social, and economic subordination.
Appeasement British and French policy in the 1930s that tried to maintain peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations 1967, regional organization established by Thailand,Malaysia,Singapore,Indonesia,and the Philippines.Designed to promote economic progress and political stability.Later becoming a free-trade zone.
Balfour Declaration 1917, British Declaration that supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Blitzkrieg 1939-1940, German style of rapid attack through the use of armor and air power that was used in Poland,Norway,Denmark,Belgium,the Netherlands,and France.
Collectivization Beginning in the 1920s, Stalin forced Russian peasants off their land and onto huge collective farms run by the state; millions died in the process.
Joseph Stalin Dictator of Soviet Union who favored socialism. Russian nationalist by conviction, denounced by Khruschev in 1956(known as De-Stalinization).
Rape of Nanjing Japanese conquest and destruction of the Chinese city of Nanjing in the 1930s.
European Recovery Program/Marshall Plan U.S. plan that offered financial and economic aid to all European states that had suffered from WWII including Soviet bloc states.
COMECON The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, which offered increased trade within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Soviet alternative to the United States' Marshall Plan.
Decolonization 1950s-1960s, process by which former colonies achieved their independence, as with the newly emerging African nations.
Detente 1969-1975, a reduction in cold war tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
European Community(EC) Organization of European states established in 1957. Promoted economic growth and integration as the basis for a politically united Europe.
Five-year plans 1928, first implemented by Stalin in the Soviet Union. Staple of communist regimes in which every aspect of production was determined to advance in a five-year period; opposite of free market concept.
Glasnost Russian term meaning "openness" introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 to describe the process of opening Soviet society to dissidents and public criticism.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Japanese plan for consolidating east and southeast Asia under their control during WWII
New weapons WWI, poisoned gas(mustard gas), armored tanks, airplanes, and submarines
The Atomic Bomb The U.S. bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, which ends WWII.
Berlin Wall Divided between West and East Berlin, the Soviet Union blocks off West Berlin but its kept supplied with U.S. help. The wall was placed to stop refugees from East Germany from escaping to West Germany.
Mao Zedong People's Republic of China 1949, a Chinese communist revolutionary that reunified China under communist rule.
38th Parralel 1948, made to temporarily divide Korea into North and South. Separation continues due to conflict between communist North Korea and U.S. supported democratic South Korea.
Vietnam War 1955-1975, North Vietnamese government fight to unite Vietnam under communist rule.
The Little Tigers Hong Kong,Singapore,South Korea, and Taiwan indulge in a export driven industry in the 1980s.
Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988,Iraqi president Saddam Hussein attacks Iran.
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