AP World History Exam - Unit 6 ( Latest 2023-2024 ) With 100% Verified Answers
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- African National Congress
Answer: ANC; South African political party formed in 1912; strongly opposed to
apartheid
- Apartheid
Answer: "separateness"; a series of laws initiated by the Afrikaner National Party in South Africa which was designed to divide South African society by skin color and ethnicity; this system also reserved South Africa's resources for whites
- Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
Answer: lived from 1900 to 1989; religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Big Bang theory
Answer: theory which suggests that at some moment all matter in the universe was contained in a single point, which is considered the beginning of the universe
- Vladimir Lenin
Answer: born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; lived from 1870 to 1924; the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and premier of the Soviet Union
- Central Powers
Answer: one of the two warring factions in World War I; composed of Germany,
Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria; also known as the Quadruple Alliance
- Charles de Gaulle
Answer: lived from 1890 to 1970; French general and statesman who led French
forces in World War II; served as the president of France from 1959 to 1969
- Che Guevara
Answer: lived from 1928 to 1967; Argentine marxist revolutionary who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution
- Chiang Kai-shek
Answer: lived from 1887 to 1975; Chinese military officer who was leader of the
Guomindang; fled to Taiwan after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in China
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- Chinese Revolution
Answer: prolonged communist movement in China and lasted from 1946 to 1950;
resulted in the communist takeover of mainland China
- Cold War
Answer: a sustained state of political and military tension between members of
NATO and members of the Warsaw Pact; dissolution of the Soviet Union was the end of this "conflict"
- Collectivization
Answer: also known as collective farming and communal farming; sys tem in which
the holdings of several farmers are run collectively as a unit; imposed by the government in the Soviet Union
- command economy
Answer: a.k.a planned economy; the economic system in which decisions regarding
production and investment are embodied in a plan formulated by a central authority, usually by a public body such as a government agency
- containment
Answer: the United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad
during the Cold War; a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam
- Cuban missile crisis
Answer: a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and the
United States; Soviet missiles moved to Cuban soil in an agreement by Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev; U.S. responds by blockading Cuba; Khrushchev and U.S.President John F. Kennedy reach an agreement in which the Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba in return for an American promise not to invade Cuba
- cultural imperialism
Answer: the practice of promoting or imposing one's culture on another, usually
between powerful societies and less-powerful ones
- Cultural Revolution
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Answer: also known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; launched by Mao in the late 1960's; aimed to combat the capitalist tendencies he believed had penetrated even the highest ranks of the communist party itself; involved new policies to bring health care and education to the countryside and reinvigorate earlier efforts at rural industrialization under local control