Note Cards

Monday, April 27, 2009

VIDEOS TO WATCH

Click the units on the left and then push the VOD button on the left

LINK

Friday, April 17, 2009

The Great Depression

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_59763bgpv6j

Mao Zedong's New china

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_596fmrrjpt2

Totalitarian Regimes

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_595hcp3jbdx

Decolonization - 3 case studies

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_594vhtg6dgf

Independence for India

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_593cngxdzfc

Changes in China 1900-1929

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd2vmsh3_592fg8hphht

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Chapter 33 Guided Reading

A.P. World History
Guided Reading Chapter 33
“Globalization at the Turn of the Millennium”


Terms:

1. al Qaeda
2. Ethnic cleansing
3. weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
4. Usama bin Laden
5. Economic sanctions (also state the goal)
6. World Trade Organization (WTO) and its goal
7. G-8 (Group of Eight)
8. IMF (International Monetary Fund)
9. Nuclear nonproliferation
10. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
11. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
12. Cultural imperialism
13. Popular (pop) culture
14. Global culture



Questions to Outline:
1. What was the ethnic makeup of the Yugoslavian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991?
2. Explain the reasons for the violence and war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
3. What role did the USA have in the conflict?
4. List five global economic problems of the 1990s.
5. What types of female oppression did Western feminists rail against?
6. List five types of media that help to spread cultural imperialism.
7. What is the “brain drain” and how does it affect Europe and the USA?

Chapter 32 Guided Reading

A.P. World History
Guided Reading Chapter 32
“Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World, 1975 - 1991”

Terms:

1. Proxy wars
2. The “Brazilian Solution”
3. Sandinistas
4. Contras
5. Keiretsu
6. The Asian Tigers
7. Newly industrialized economies (NIEs)
8. glasnost
9. perestroika
10. Solidarity
11. Demographic transition


Individuals / Peoples:

12. Salvador Allende
13. General Augusto Pinochet
14. Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
15. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
16. Saddam Husain
17. Deng Xiaoping
18. Alexander Solzhenitzyn
19. Mikhail Gorbachev
20. Boris Yeltsin
21. Thomas Malthus


Wars/Conflicts:

22. “the Dirty War”
23. The Falkland Islands War
24. Iranian Revolution of 1979
25. Tiananmen Square Incident


Questions to Outline:
1. Outline the events of the Chilean presidential crisis in the 1970s and be sure to indicate the role of the USA in this crisis.
2. How did President Reagan deal with the Nicaraguan Revolution?
3. Why were the oil-importing and oil-exporting nations of Latin America in economic trouble in the late 1980s?
4. Characterize the new Iranian regime after the Revolution.
5. Why did Saddam Husain declare war on Iran in 1980?
6. How was the United States involved in the Iranian-Iraqi War?
7. How did the Japanese economic success of the 1970s and 1980s affect the United States and the European Community?
8. What were the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping?
9. Develop a timeline of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1992. Must have at least 10 items.
10. What were the causes of the Persian Gulf War?
11. Using the graph on page 864 and the text, develop a comparison/contrast chart on population growth in the industrialized nations and the developing nations. (Note: this will surely be on the AP Exam – do a good job)
12. List what you think are the five most important post-WWII technological/economical advances.