Chapters 36-40 Ap World History Test Review
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CHAPTERS 36-40 AP WORLD HISTORY TEST REVIEW
Chapter 36
1. Who was the famed Mexican artist who painted murals? His most famous was a series called “Portrait of America”.
2. What was “Dollar Diplomacy”?
3. Who was the President of Mexico who nationalized the oil industry, much of which was owned by the U.S. and Great Britain?
4. Who is the Black Nationalist (Jamican) who believed that U.S. blacks should seek repatriation (return to one’s country of birth) in Africa?
5. In the decades following the Great War, a transformation took place in African economic life. What were the colonial powers’ two key economic objectives in Africa?
6. Who called for the creation of Pakistan as a separate state for Muslims?
7. What was the “Mukden Incident”? (p. 1013)
8. What was “Satyagraha”?
9. Who was Sun Yatsen?
10. What happened at Amritsar in 1919?
11.What was the May Fourth Movement?
12. What was the Long March?
13. Which two leaders were rivals in China after 1925? (They represented the Guomindang and the Communist Party)?
14. Of all the associations dedicated to the struggle against British rule in India, the greatest and most influential was the ______(p. 1007)
15. ______of India was one of the most remarkable and charismatic leaders of the 20th century. he embraced a moral philosophy o tolerance and nonviolence.
Chapter 37
16. What was the Rape of Nanjing?
17. What was the Tripartite Pact & who signed it? 18. Who did Germany invade in 1938 and force to accept the Anschluss?
19. What was the Spanish Civil War and which foreign countries fought on the side of the Spanish fascists?
20. What was the Munich Conference?
21. Who did Italy invade in 1935?
22. What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
23. What was Operation Barbarossa?
24. Which event started WWII?
25. What was the first large-scale defeat for German forces in WWII? This was a turning point in the war.
26. After the fall of France in 1940 ______was the only country left to fight Germany.
27. Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
28. What U.S. victory in the Pacific turned the tide against the Japanese in WWII?
29. Why did the Japanese finally surrender in August, 1945?
30. What were “comfort women”?
31. What happened at the Wannsee Conference?
32. The largest Nazi death camp was ______.
33. How many people died in WWII?
34. The U.S. interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the ______.
35. What was the Marshall Plan?
36. What was NATO? Chapter 38
37. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were two Cold War superpowers. Ideologically, what were the competing sides in the cold war?
38. What was the Warsaw Pact (Treaty)?
39. The U.S. supported a failed invasion of Cuba to oust Fidel Castro at the ______>
40. Who was the author of The Second Sex?
41. What is Senator Joseph McCarthy known for?
42 What ended the U.S. phase of the Vietnam War?
43. What did the Treaty of Rome establish?
44. What type of foreign policy did the French President Charles de Gaulle try to carry out?
45. What country did the Soviet Union expel from the Soviet bloc in 1948 because of its insistence on following an independent course in foreign affairs?
46. What does the term Vietnamization mean?
47. Which Soviet republics were the first to declare their independence?
48. What did Alexander Dubcek’s Prague Spring promise?
49. What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
50. Which two countries signed the SALT agreement in 1972?
51. What was the “Velvet Revolution”?
52. What was “Solidarity”?
52. ______was the Soviet leader who brought massive reform to the Soviet Union beginning in 1985.
53. The Soviet Union had its own “Vietnam” in ______when they invaded in 1979. They stayed there fighting for another eight years.
54. ______finally dismantled the Soviet Communist Party and pushed the country towards free market reforms. 55. When Gorbachev discussed the opening of Soviet society to past mistakes it was called ______.
Chapter 39
56. Who called for the creation of Pakistan?
57. The ______was a confrontation between Hindus and Muslims in 1946 where 6,000 people were killed.
58. War broke out between India and Pakistan in 1947 over the province of ______.
59. ______was the Communist leader of North Vietnam.
60. The ______was held in 1955 in Indonesia to push forward the policy of nonalignment.
61.What was the name of the disastrous defeat in 1954 that forced the French out of Vietnam? ______
62. Which European power served as a mandate power in Palestine after WWI?
63. In 1947, what did the UN propose in regards to Palestine?
64. Who was considered the leader of the Arab world in the 1950s and 60s?
65. Why were the English and French forced to withdraw from controlling the Suez Canal in 1956?
66. The Algerians gained their independence from ______in 1962.
67. The Mau Mau was an attempt to free Kenya from control of the ______.
68.______was the leader of the first sub-Saharan nation to gain independence in 1957. The country was ______.
69. Who was the proponent of the Great Leap Forward in China? ______
70. Who was the founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization? ______
71. Who was the Egyptian who masterminded the Yom Kippur attack on Israel and facilitated the peace process with the Israelis? ______
72. What is Islamism? 73. Who was the Indian leader who attempted to control massive population growth in India by ordering involuntary sterilization? ______
74. From 1980 through 1988 Iran and ______were involved in a bloody war.
75. Juan Peron was a nationalist militarist who was popular with the poor in ______.
76. What area of the world were national boundaries made that did not correspond to ethnic divisions? ______
77. Who was the famous leader of the African National Congress? ______
Chapter 40
78. Name the “Little Tigers”.
79.What is the most famous and strongly integrated regional trading bloc?
80. What is OPEC?
81. What is “Americanization?”
82. Due to the rise of communication technology, observers have labeled today’s era the ______.
83. The world’s population increases by ______every year.
84. Who was the author of Silent Spring?
85. ______children between the ages of 5 and 14 work around the world?
86. 80% of the children with HIV/AIDS live in ______.
87. What is China’s population policy?
88. What country has a major problem with dowry deaths? ______
89. Name some examples of NGOs.
90. The Myanmar leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 is ______.