AP World History: Unit 9

• Population explosion


  The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase
• Green Revolution


  Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
• one-child family policy


  in 1978, in order to control expanding chinese population and said each family could have one child, very hard to enforce in rural areas and policy not unified in all provinces
• Age of Fossil Fuels


  Time period in which man used fossil fuels as a main source of power
• Second-wave feminism


  Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movements; second-wave feminists demanded equal rights for women in employment and education, women's right to control their own bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination.
• Influenza pandemic


  1918 global outbreak of influenza, a highly contagious viral infection, killing as many as 30 million people worldwide.
• HIV/AIDS


  Virus that destroys the immune system that should protect the body from diseases. The disease is passed from person to person through sexual acts, blood transfusions, used hypodermic needles, or from mother to child during birth.
• Ebola


  A contagious viral disease originating in Africa. It is transmitted by blood and body fluids and causes body organs and vessels to leak blood, usually resulting in death.
• Alzheimer's


  A neurological disease that slowly erases the memory and capabilities of the victim.
• climate change


  Change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over periods of decades
• Paris Climate Agreement


  An agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.
• World Trade Organization


  Administers the rules governing trade between its 144 members. Helps producers, importers, and exporters conduct their business and ensure that trade flows smoothly.
• NAFTA


  A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries.
• Economic globalization


  The increasing integration and interdependence of national economies around the world
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations


  Multinational organization that cooperates economically by lowering trade barriers, such as, tariffs, to encourage commerce between member nations.
• Transnational corporations


  A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
• Export processing zone


  areas where governments create favorable investment and trading conditions to attract export-oriented industries
• service sector


  The sector of the economy that provides services--such as health care, banking, and education--contrast to the sector that produces goods.
• Deng Xiaoping


  Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong.
• Mikhail Gorbachev


  Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe.
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  • International declaration of human right. this declaration was the first basic document to outline "human rights".it was passed by the united nations in 1948 and announced " a common standard of achievement for all people and nations".
• Negritude


  Literary movement in Africa; attempted to combat racial stereotypes of African culture; celebrated the beauty of black skin and African physique; associated with origins of African nationalist movements.
• Cultural Revolution


  Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
• Women's suffrage


  Feminist movement to gain the right to vote
• Megacities


  cities with more than 10 million people
• Labor migration


  the movement of people from one country to another for employment
• Cultural globalization


  worldwide spread of similar norms, values, and practices
• Apartheid


  Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
• Greenpeace


  an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species
• Green Belt Movement


  Kenyan movement focusing on preventing further deforestation.
• World Fair Trade Organization


  Creates rules for globalized capitalism
• Reggae


  A style of music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and is rooted in African, Caribbean, and American music, often dealing with social problems and religion.
• Bollywood


  Indian version of Hollywood (film industry), centered in Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
• Social Media


  any tool or service that uses the internet to facilitate conversations
• Olympics


  games held every four years
• Weibo


  Chinese Twitter; regulated by government
• United Nations


  An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
• Nelson Mandela


  ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South Africa in 1994.
• Kent State University


  An Ohio university where National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970, wounding nine and killing four
• Basque Homeland and Freedom


  a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party