AP World History
Unit 10 Key Terms
Tornow & Crockett
Directions: Handwritten and on lined paper, identify what each term is and why it is significant. These may
appear on both quizzes and tests. This is a HW grade that is due at the time of the test, but you should keep
up on each chapter to help in your studying for quizzes.
CH 31: Cold War &
Decolonization
1. iron curtain
2. Cold War
3. NATO
4. UN
5. World Bank
6. Marshall Plan
7. European Community
8. Truman Doctrine
9. Berlin Wall
10. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11. Nikita Khrushchev
12. Warsaw Pact
13. Korean War
14. Vietnam War
15. Ho Chi Minh
16. Viet Minh
17. Vo Nguyen Giap
18. Dien Bien Phu
19. Ngo Dinh Diem
20. Viet Cong
21. Cuban Missile Crisis
22. Helsinki Accords
23. nonaligned nations
24. Third World
25. Chinese Cultural
Revolution
26. Great Leap Forward
27. Jiang Qing
28. Red Guard
29. OPEC
30. Green Revolution
31. feminism
32. United Fruit Company
33. Fulgencio Batista
34. Fidel Castro
35. Che Guevara
36. Augusto Sandino
37. banana republics
38. Gamal Abdul Nasser
39. Anwar Sadat
CH 32: Dawn of Post-Cold
War World
40. proxy wars
41. Salvador Allende
42. Dirty War
43. Sandinistas
44. Ayatollah Ruholla
Khomeini
45. Saddam Hussein
46. Persian Gulf War
47. neo-liberalism
48. keiretsu
49. Asian Tigers
50. Pacific Rim
51. newly industrialized
economies
52. Taiwan
53. Hong Kong
54. Hyundai Corp.
55. Deng Xiaoping
56. Tiananmen Square
57. Mikhail Gorbachev
58. perestroika
59. glasnost
60. Boris Yeltsin
61. Solidarity
62. Thomas Malthus
63. demographic transition
64. Nelson Mandela
65. Steve Biko
66. FW de Klerk
CH 33: Globalization at the
Turn of the Millennium
67. globalization
68. ethnic cleansing
69. Slobodan Milosevic
70. weapons of mass
destruction
71. terrorism
72. Usama bin Laden
73. World Trade
Organization
74. NAFTA
75. millenarianism
76. Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
77. nongovernmental
organizations
78. cultural imperialism
79. pop culture
80. global culture