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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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.

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