AP WORLD HISTORY: TERMS FOR CHAPTERS 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, & 36
DIRECTIONS: For each term listed below, provide a well-developed definition that explains the significance of
that term. Your definition should be written in a complete sentence(s). All terms and their definitions must be
numbered and hand-written.
ex. Cuneiform: This is the first known writing system and was developed c3500 BCE by the Sumerian
civilization located in Mesopotamia’s Fertile Crescent.
**Please note**: The terms below are not necessarily listed in the order that they are found in the text. Many
terms are NOT highlighted or italicized as you read them in the textbook. Use your textbook’s glossary or index
to locate the terms. You may also use outside resources to define the term, but the definition provided must be
relevant to our historical studies. Do NOT trust publically edited websites such as Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers
to retrieve definitions.
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self-determination
decolonization
United Nations
Marshall Plan
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
World Bank
Common Market/EU (European Union)
Cold War
Nuclear proliferation
Iron Curtain
What is meant by “first world”, “second
world”, & “third world”?
non-alignment
containment policy
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
Organization)
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
Space Race
proxy war
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Banana Republics
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Agreement)
Zapatistas
feminism (Feminist Movement)
apartheid
Nelson Mandela
African National Congress (ANC)
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Iranian Revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini
theocracy
Islamic fundamentalism
Little Tigers
Korean War
Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
Deng Xiaoping
Tiananmen Square Protest Movement,
1989
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Minh (Vietminh)
Viet Cong (Vietcong)
Vietnam War
détente
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 19791989
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Chernobyl
PLO (Palestinian Liberation
Organization)
al-Qaeda
globalization
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries)
neo-colonialism
global warming