Note Cards

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?