Ap World Vocab Unit 13

Question 1

European economic community

Answer 1

Alliance formed by six Western European countries to develop trade policies and reduced tariffs 

Question 2

Marshall plan

Answer 2

US government initiative to aid post World War II recovery of Western Europe 

Question 3

Great Leap Forward

Answer 3

Communist push that aim to mobilize China’s population for rapid development 

Question 4

Cultural Revolution

Answer 4

Campaign launched to combat the capitalist, tendencies in the highest ranks of the communist party, campaign threw china into chaos

Question 5

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 5

Major standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba 

Question 6

Decolonization

Answer 6

Processing which many African and Asian states won their independence from western colonial rule 

Question 7

Indian national conference

Answer 7

Political party led by Gandhi that succeeded in bringing about the Indian independence from Britain 

Question 8

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 8

Political leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain 

Question 9

Muslim League

Answer 9

Political group formed in response to the Indian national Congress for independence from Britain 

Question 10

Mao Zedong

Answer 10

Chairman of China’s Communist party 

Question 11

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 11

Leader of China, whose reforms dismantled parts of Chinese economy 

Question 12

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 12

Leader of the Soviet union, whose efforts to from the USSR led to its collapse 

Question 13

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Answer 13

Struggle between the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian Muslim territory 

Question 14

Iranian Revolution

Answer 14

Establishment of radically Islamic government in Iran, triggered war in Iraq