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AP World History
Valhalla High School Bentley AP World Ch. 40
| Term | Definition | Significance | Time period | Chapter | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass Tourism | Mass tourism is a result from an industrialized society which incorporates the ideas of leisure and travel. | Mass tourism is significant in that it is the largest industry on the planet and has the negative effect of producing low-paying jobs. | 1800s-present day | 40 | Europe, United States |
| Migrant Communities | Migrant communities are cultural and ethnic communities created by migrants. | Migrant communities are significant because they help migrants to maintain their cultural traditions, but are negative in the way that they create hostility in the host countries they are in. | early 1900s-present day | 40 | worldwide |
| External Migration | External migration is caused when people wish to leave their countries to escape from the horrors of war, or to live in a place with a more flourishing economy. | External migration is significant because it causes for cultural exchanges between countries, and causes for mass amounts of people (130 million as a whole) to live and work outside of their country. | 1800s-present day | 40 | America. Europe, Asia (worldwide) |
| Internal Migration | Internal migrations are rural-urban flows. | Internal migrations are significant because they lead to rapid urbanization. | 1800s-present day | 40 | Europe, New Zealand, North America, South America |
| Urbanization | Urbanization is caused when people from rural areas move to cities. | Urbanization is significant because it causes for pollution, poverty, disease, and overall bad conditions for the people living in the cities. | 1900s-present day | 40 | large cities throughout the world |
| Nongovernmental Organizations(NGO) | NGO's are organizations created by a person with no participation in the government. | NGO's are significant because they promote humanitarian efforts around the world, and focus on the betterment of society. ex: Greenpeace, Red Cross | 1800s-present day | 40 | Europe, United States, ideas spread worldwide |
| The United Nations | The U.N. is an NGO at the highest level, and helps to bring countries together to deal with problems concerning humanity. | The U.N. is significant because it instills the idea of peace throughout the world, and gives aid to countries that have been stuck by war, poverty, and famine. | 1945-present day | 40 | worldwide |
| Human Rights | Human rights first became a major concern after the persecution of Jews in the Holocaust, and it has been the focus of most governmental and nongovernmental organizations to stop injustices done to humans by other humans. | Human rights are significant because the idea of human rights has caused for laws to be developed to enforce human rights, and it has because a prime political topic. | early 1900s-present day | 40 | worldwide |
| HIV/AIDS | HIV/AIDS is the most serious epidemic disease that slowly attacks and destroys the immune system leaving the infected victim vulnerable to disease; it is worst in Africa | THis is the most seriousl epidemic taht is incurable and has killed over 20 million people. | 1980-now | 40 | global |
| The Club of Rome | The Club of Rome is a group of international scientists adn economist who wanted to specify the population and economic growth limits in relations to the earth's capacity | It found out the earth's resources are in finite supply and that humans need to be careful to not use up the world. | 1967-now | 40 | global |
| Child-Labor | Child-labor was forced and bonded labor of children in often mentally and physically harmful conditions in return for low wages. | This negatively effects and harms more than 250 million children around the world | 19th century-now | 40 | global |
| Trafficking | Trafficking is the illegal selling of people across both national and international boundries; 1-2 million people are sold every year. | It is one of the fastest growing enterprises in the world and is generating millions of dollars by forcing millions into servitude. | (blank) | 40 | global |
| Terrorism | Terrorism is the deliberate use of violence against civilians with the aim of advancing political, religious, or idealogical causes. | THis has caused the deaths of millions of innocent civilians and been the cause of many wars; September 11 was a terrorist attack. | throughout history | 40 | global |
| September 11 | On September 11, 2001 hijackers took 4 passenger planes and crashed not the Worls Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington D.C.; it was led by Osama bin Laden | This event caused thoussnds of innocent deaths and survivors and still experiencing medical difficulties today. Also, it led to a war against terrorism. | September 11, 2001 | 40 | US |
| War in Afghanistan | The US announced war on Afghanistan for "harboring terrorists;" it is part of the war against terror Bush started | The US coalition smashed the Taliban adn al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; the war has killed many and has caused resentment towards the US | October 7, 2001 | 40 | Afghanistan |
| "Operation Iraqi Freedom" | A multicoalitional force invaded Irag to wage further war against terrorism by ousting Saddam Hussein adn creating a democratic state. | Hussein was captured by the US, however thousands have died and the war is still going on. It has cast billions of dollars and some say set a troubling precedent in the US foreign policy. | March 2003-now | 40 | Iraq |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade formed in 1945 to promote free trade. IN 1944,123 GAT members created World Trade Org. (WTO) causing a dramatic growth in world trade (1966-1990). | It promoted world trade and got a better flow of supplies going creating more interaction through the world. | formed in 1947. rush in success from 1966-1990 | 40 | world wide |
| Japan's economic miracle | in Japan, postwar they had little resources and no overseas empire. In this time they beneffitted from the U.S. and then persued export. They reinvested in capital intensive and technology intesive production. growth(60s-80s) | This brought back Japan from a great fall and put this major place back into the picture and kept their contibutions in the world. | 1960s-1980s | 40 | Japan |
| Little Tigers | Hong Kong, Singapore, S. Korea, & Taiwan. Followed japanese model of export driven industry. 1990s they came to be highly competative. Indonesia, Thailand, & Malaysia joined. | This added a great new competator in the trading world and produced a great new power. | 1990s | 40 | Asia |
| The European Union | A union starting with 6 nations(now 15). A common market, free trade & travel within union for members. 11 adopted common currency, the Euro in 1999. They had expectations of a Euro. political union eventually. | It brought nations of Europe together in a union and allowed for a close communication and understanding of eachother. | started in 1957. | 40 | Europe |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Est. in 1960 to raise global oil prices. After the Arab-Israeli war it replaced the embargo on oil to the U.S., the oil prices quadroupled from '73-'75 starting a global recession. | It was a great turning point in the oil industry because of the great economic impact it had on the U.S. | 1960. effects seen in '73-'75. | 40 | effects seen in the U.S. |
| Global Barbie | Iran changed the U.S. Barbie to Sara who was more modest for Islamic values. Japan's Barbie was much younger but Barbie's image wasn't rejected. | It showed cultural imperialism through Islamic reaction and Japan's modification of the U.S.'s different look through cultures. | mid to late 1900s | 40 | U.S., Iran, Japan. |
| 20th Century population increase | world population went from 500mill.-2.5 bill. (1650-1950). Asia and Africa saw increase after WWII. From 1994 in the world there were about 5.5 bill. and there is estimated to be 11.6 bill. by 2200. However, fertility rates have fallen for past 20 yrs. | This undying growth in the people of the world continually increases the need for supplies and things through the world and is and enormous change sice the numbers of people in the beginning of time. | 20th century | 40 | world wide |
| Environmental Impact | Today, urbanization and agricultural exp. threaten biodiversity. Gas emissions & coal burning contribute to global warming. In 1997 59 states met in Kyoto to try to cut out C02 emissions in the world. | The growth in the world is creating a growing pressure in the world to save the environment and this growing issue requires the cooperation of everyone to help the world making it a huge effort and movement of the time. | present day | 40 | world wide |
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