AP WORLD HISTORY: TERMS FOR CHAPTERS 28, 29, & 30
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.
1. Triple Entente
2. Triple Alliance
3. Allied Powers [as it
relates to World War I]
4. Central Powers [as it
relates to World War I]
5. arms race
6. trench warfare
7. total war
8. Armenian Genocide
9. Ataturk (or Mustafa
Kemal)
10. Zionism (or Zionist
Movement)
11. Balfour Declaration
12. partition [as it
relates to a nation]
13. unrestricted
submarine warfare
14. Paris Peace
Conference, 1919
15. Ho Chi Minh
16. Pan-Arabism
17. Pan-Africanism
18. Palestine
19. Treaty of Versailles
20. internationalism
21. May Fourth
Movement, 1919
22. Indian Congress
Party [or Indian
National Congress
(INC)]
23. Mohandas Gandhi
24. Jawaharlal Nehru
25. Satyagraha
26. civil disobedience
27. Muslim League
28. Muhammad Ali
Jinnah
29. Emperor Puyi
30. Sun Yat-sen
31. Jiang Jieshi (or
Chiang Kai-shek)
32. Guomindang (or
Kuomintang)
33. Mao Zedong
34. Long March
35. Czar Nicholas II
36. Vladimir Lenin
37. New Economic Policy
(NEP)
38. Bolshevik Revolution
(or October
Revolution of 1917)
39. USSR
40. Congress of Soviets
41. Red Army [as it
relates to the Soviet
Union]
42. Comintern
43. Cheka
44. Josef Stalin
45. Collectivization
46. 5-Year Plans
47. Porfirio Diaz
48. Francisco Madero
49. Pancho Villa
50. Emiliano Zapata
51. soldaderas
52. nationalization [not
to be confused with
nationalism!]
53. PRI
54. Great Depression
55. fascism
56. totalitarianism
57. appeasement
58. blitzkrieg
59. anti-Semitism
60. the Holocaust
61. Allied Powers [as it
relates to World War II]
62. Axis Powers [as it
relates to World War II]