World History

US congressional act prohibiting nearly all immigartion from China to the US; fueled by animosity toward Chinese workers in the American Wes

1964 Civil Rights Act

These sought to link people across state boundaries so that dispersed communites would be united. However this would threated state boundari

Phrase used in connection of social changes in the west that questioned the fundamental roles of women. I.e issues of suffrage, reproduction

The division line between North and South korea.

Multiracial organizaton founded in 1912 in an effort to end racial discrimination in South Africa.

Final stage of HIV, transferred by blood or semen. Majority of people who have it live in poor countries with low lvls of education

Means "the base". Global militant Islamist organization. (Labelled terrorists by the west) Responsible for the 9/11 bombing and several othe

Movement based among the poorer people who do not see globalization as benifical, but merely takes their jobs. It was first based in Latin A

Centralized and dictatorial form of government, proclaimed by its adherents to be superior to parlimentary democracy and especially effectiv

Letter (Nov. 2, 1917) by Lord Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, that promised a homeland for the Jews in Palistine.

(June 1948-May 1949) Russia blocked off land routes to Germany in an attempt to convince the allies to give germany to the russians. The al

(1899-1902) War of British and The Afrikaners (more specifically the Boers) over control of gold from in the area. British ultimately won, b

(1899-1900) Chinese peasnat movement that opposed foreign influence, especially that of Christian missionaries; it was put down after the Bo

Impressionist painter??

A system where people are associated with different corporate groups which are sponsered by the state and each have some influence. Takes aw

International body organized after WWII as an attempt at reconciliation b/w Germany and the rest of Europe. It initially aimed to forge clos

(1926- ?) Cuban communist revolutionary who served as prime minister and then president of Cuba, transofrming Cuba into a socialist state. C

(1844 - 1900) German philosopher who came up with the idea of "will to power" Was made the prophet of many antiliberal causes, including Naz

Term used by the Japanese during he 1930s and 1940s to refer to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, and other states that they seized durin

(1906-1949) Schoolteacher and Iman, best known for founding the Muslim brotherhood, 20th century Muslim revival organization

(1900- 1945) Leader of the german SS. Comander of the home army. One of the men most responsible for the holocaust as he set up and controll

(1890-1969) Well educated Vietnamese who studied in europe. Developed communist ideas and founded the communist part in Vietnam. Defeated th

Agency founded 1944 to help restore financial order in Europe and the rest of the world, to revive international trade, and to support the f

Formed in 1885, this political party was deeply committed to constitutional methods, industrialization, and cultural nationalism.

(1878-1953) Leader of Russia after Lenin died. Led Russia during period of reconstruction. Was a dictator and he killed many people.

Post-Depression economic ideas develped by the British economist John Maynard Keynes, wehrein the state took a greater role in managing the

Obtained Western education. West Africa's leading Nationalist. Mobolized peoples of the Gold Coast and through electroal successes convince

Where the British controlled Palestine from 1923-1948 after WWI.

(1893-1976) Leader of the communist china party. Got support from the peasants and took over China in 1949. Introduced the Great Leap Forwar

Economic aid package given by the US to Europe after WWII in hopes of a rapid period of reconstruction and economic gain, thereby securing t

(1869-1948) Indian leader who led a nonviolent struggle for India's independence from Britain.

(1881-1938) An Ottoman army officer who defeated the allies to become the first president of Turkey and founder of the Republic of Turkey. U

Treaty negotiated in the early 1990s to promote free trade b/w Canada, the US, and Mexico.

International organization set up in 1949 to provide for the defense of western European countries and the US from the perceived Soviet thre

South African politician who served as president from 1994-1999. First ever to be elected in a fully representative election (anyone could v

the geopolitical practice of using captialism, business globalization, and cultural imperialism to control a country, in lieu of either dire

President FDR's package of government reforms that were encacted during the 1930s to provide jobs for the unemployed, social welfare program

International association established in 1960 to coordinate price and supply policies of oil-producing states.

genre of music started in 1960s among Jamaica's Rastafarians, became a hit in London and Toronto, where large West Indian communities had mo

ordered the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to seize oil fields… reputedly had abetted terrorists and was thought to have developed weapons

specific conolial formation whereby foreign family units move into a region and reproduce. An imperial power oversees the immigration of the

Laws of Islam that regulate the spiritual and secular actions of Muslims.

(1866-1925) Chinese revolutionary and founder of the Nationalist Party in China.

New York Times columnist…author of best selling book, and said "the world had become flat" (i.e. the technological advances has brought the

Largest public square in the world and site of the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that resulted in the killing of as many as a thousand prot

(1947) Declaration promising US economic and miliatry intervention, whenever and wherever needed, for the sake of preventing Communist expan

president of russia 3x… he eliminated elections for regional executives, tightened control over the media, and restricted NGOs receiving for

Nationalist party that came into existence during a rebellion in Egypt in 1919 and held power sporadically after Egypt was granted limited i

(1955-1991) Military alliance b/w the Soviet Union and other Communist states that was established in response to the creation of the NATO a

International agency established in 1944 to provide economic assistance to war-torn and poor countries. Its formal title is the Internationa