AP World History Trimester 3 Review
Be prepared to write an essay comparing two of the three revolutions listed below:
 Chinese Revolution
 Mexican Revolution
 Russian Revolution
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Chapter 24
What
factor contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century?
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From
the 1960s, in the industrialized West feminism included all but which of the
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following
as an important focus of the movement?
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Describe
the Global North/South divide in the twentieth century
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Describe
the massive increase in international migration of the world's peoples during
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the
1 era of globalization.
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How
did globalization affect those within wealthy nations, especially the United States?
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How
would you describe the "American Empire" of the second half of the twentieth
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century
and beginning of the twenty-first century?
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How
did women's liberation feminists differ from equal rights feminists?
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Why
did African feminists resent American and European feminists' opposition to
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traditional
African cultural practices such as polygamy and female circumcision?
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Describe
the response of global fundamentalism to modernity.
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Characterize
the strategies pursued by Islamic fundamentalist groups for achieving their
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political
aims.
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Osama
bin Laden and al-Qaedas reasons for declaring the US their enemy:
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What
was a major difference between Western environmental movements and
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environmentalists
in developing countries?
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Describe
environmental movements in the Global South
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Chapter 23
 What
4 made the end of Europe's African and Asian colonial empires distinctive as
compared
to other cases of imperial disintegration?
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 In 4which of the following ways did the decolonization of the Americas in the
eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries differ from the decolonization of Africa
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and. Asia in the twentieth century?
 What
4 were fundamental contradictions that undermined colonial enterprise?
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 Which
4 of the following was an international circumstance that contributed to the
end7 of European colonial rule?
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 What
4 was a social or economic circumstance within the European colonies that
contributed
to anticolonial movements?
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 What
4 were the initial aims of the Indian National Congress (INC)?
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 Why
5 did white rule last almost fifty years longer in South Africa than it did in India
(1994
0 versus 1947)?
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Describe
the South African freedom struggle.
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 What
5 was the fate of many of the political parties that had led the movements for
independence
in Africa after independence was achieved?
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In
 5general, which class benefited the most from independence in Africa?
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Western-style democracy in Africa
 Describe
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the developing world after it won independence.
 Describe
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 Which
5 group of developing countries has been the most successful in stimulating
economic
growth and industrialization?
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 What
5 effect did the Westernizing influences under the Shah of Iran have on the
nation
7 of Iran?
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 3How did the Chinese Communist Party adapt its ideology and strategy during its long
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3How was the communist revolution in Russia similar to the French Revolution?
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3The communist revolution in China differed from that in Russia in which ways?
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Russia
3In its push for modernization, China faced an even more daunting task than
3because
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women
3Describe initial policies of the Soviet and Chinese Communist Parties toward
4after taking power.
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3In contrast with China, the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union
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3The emergence of a privileged bureaucratic and technological elite in communist
6societies as a consequence of industrial modernization was:
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that
3Of the communist regimes that came to power, which took power in a country
7had achieved the level of industrialization that Karl Marx believed necessary for
.communism?
3What was result of Mao's two great campaigns—the "Great Leap Forward" and
8the "Cultural Revolution"?
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3How did the cold war impact many third world countries?
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 4What characterized the main economic failure of communism?
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 4What was the impact of glasnost on the Soviet allies in Eastern Europe?
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Chapter 20
did Europeans take advantage of in creating colonial empires in Asia and Africa
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during
the second half of the nineteenth century?
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role did Spain and Portugal play in the second European imperialism?
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non-European country built a colonial empire that bore important similarities to the
 What
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empires
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of its European counterparts?
was the long-term plan of the British government for taking over control of India?
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was the fate of decentralized societies that did not have a strong ruler or
 What
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government
under European conquest, such as the small kingdoms and chiefdoms of
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West Africa?
did Europeans become the vast majority of the population in New Zealand,
 Why
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Australia,
and Hawaii?
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the response of most Asian and African societies to European conquests in
 Characterizes
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the
. nineteenth century
did the arrival of colonial rule changed the working lives of colonial subjects?
 How
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did nineteenth-century European version of empire differed from others?
 How
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did colonial rule in Africa had an impact on the lives of women?
 How
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of the following was a way in which European colonial rule transformed its
 Which
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colonies?
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relationship existed between the number of white settlers and the degree of racial
 What
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segregation
and discrimination in African and Asian colonies?
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 How
1 did Europeans justify the paradox that they valued national independence and
Enlightenment
values such as freedom and equality, yet denied these things to the people
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they
. colonized?
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What
was the effect of Germany’s arrival after 1870 as a new powerful player on the
1
international
scene?
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What
impact did World War I have on Europe’s colonial empires?
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Which
of the following was a factor in causing the Great Depression?
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Japan’s
motivations for going to war with Western powers in the years before
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the
8 opening of WWII include all but which of the following?
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What
was the popular attitude in Europe toward the prospect of war in the summer of
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1914?
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The
2 government of which of the following nations was least successful in engineering a
recovery
from the Great Depression?
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Which
of the following was a feature of fascism in Germany more than in Italy?
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Which
of the following was a reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized
2
power
in the 1930s?
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In2 what way was nationalist Japan most similar to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany?
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How
2 did Japanese nationalists differentiate Japanese society from Western
society?
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What
was the impact of the outcome of WWII on communism?
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In2 contrast to what transpired during WWI, the Germans during WWII were
able
7 to:
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What
happened to European economies after the US began its Marshall Plan in
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1948?
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Which
of the following comparisons between World Wars I and II are true?
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