AP World History Exam - Unit 6 Latest - With 100 Verified Answers

AP World History Exam - Unit 6 ( Latest - ) 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

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

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