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AP World Final Exam Review

AP World Final Exam Review. Russian Revolution. Causes Marx, Lenin, Nicholas, Rasputin, Alexander Kerensky, Trotsky, Stalin Outcome. Mandate System. Gandhi. Indian nationalist leader. where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians.

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AP World Final Exam Review

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  1. AP World Final Exam Review

  2. Russian Revolution Causes Marx, Lenin, Nicholas, Rasputin, Alexander Kerensky, Trotsky, Stalin Outcome

  3. Mandate System

  4. Gandhi • Indian nationalist leader. where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. • Promoted mass non-violent civil disobedience • He supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.

  5. Nehru • First Prime Minister of an independent India • Father of Indira Gandhi

  6. Causes of World War I US Involvement Treaty of Versailles

  7. Yalta Conference • Meeting among leaders of the U.S., Britain, and USSR in 1945 • Discussed post war Europe

  8. Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) • Help to establish an independent Turkish republic in 1923. • Modeled reforms off of Western ideals • New Latin alphabet • Woman’s suffrage

  9. Young Turks • a Turkish nationalist reform party in the early twentieth century, favoring reformation of the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Empire. • Borrowed at some of their ideas from the earlier “Young Italy” • their leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II • They ruled the former Ottoman empire from 1908 until the end of World War I in November 1918.

  10. Balfour Declaration

  11. Great Leap Forward • 1958 • Efforts by Mao to revitalize the flagging revolution by restoring its mass, rural base. • Emphasis was place on self-reliance within the peasant communes

  12. Cultural Revolution • The Cultural Revolution is the name given to Mao’s attempt to reassert his beliefs in China • Mao deliberately set out to create a cult for himself and to purge the Chinese Communist Party of anyone who did not fully support Mao

  13. Zaibatsu • This is the Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation’s industry. • influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.

  14. Keirestsu • set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of business group. • The keiretsu maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the 20th century, but are beginning to lose their grip

  15. Sun Yat-Sen • Head of Revolutionary Alliance, organization that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing dynasty in China • Briefly elected president in 1911, but yielded in favor of Yuan Shikai in 1912 • Created Nationalist party of China in 1919; died in 1925.

  16. Solidarity movement and Lech Walesa • Polish politician who co-founded the solidarity trade-union movement • Persecuted by the Polish communist government

  17. The Manhattan Project • Robert Oppenheimer is often called the father of the atomic bomb • He was the guiding physicist in the development of the atomic bomb

  18. Jackson Pollock • an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionistmovement

  19. Andy Warhol • an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known s pop art.

  20. Kenzaburo Oe • Japanese writer • His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and social non-conformism

  21. How did European colonialism affect Africa?

  22. “Little Tigers” • The economically powerful city nation-states in south East Asia that came into formation in the last half of the 20th century. (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and, South Korea.)

  23. Cambodia • Pol Pot • Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rough from 1963-1998 • Imposed agrarian socialism: forced urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects • Genocide • 21% of the population died • 1.7-2.5 million people out of 8 million died from starvation or executions

  24. Nasser • 2nd President of Egypt • 1956: Egypt vs. Britain, France, and Israel • Nationalized the Suez Canal

  25. Six Day War 1967 • Israel vs. Jordan, Egypt, and Syria • Israel won • Took Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt • West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan • Golan heights from Syria

  26. Yom Kippur War 1973 • Israel attacked by Arab states led by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur • U.S. and U.S.S.R supplied each side, almost coming into direct conflict with each other • Israel Wins • Humiliates the Arab World and show Israel that they are vulnerable to attacks

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