Global Sec.4

Question 1

Five Year Plans

Answer 1

Plans outlined by Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union beginning in 1928 for the development of the Soviet economy, emphasizing industrialization. This was also instituted by Mao Zedong in Communist China

Question 2

Four Modernizations

Answer 2

Set of goals adopted by the communist chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in the late 20th century, involving progress in agriculture, defense, and science and technology

Question 3

Fourteen Points

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A series of proposals in which the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. Part of the plan included creating a world peace organization called the League of Nations which was a part of the peace treaty the Treaty of Versailles. The U.S. Senate rejected the treaty due to the inclusion of the League of Nations

Question 4

Free Trade

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Commerce or trade between nations without economic restrictions or barriers such as tariffs

Question 5

Genocide

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Systematic killing of an entire religious or ethnic group. Examples are the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by the Serbs

Question 6

Geocentric theory

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In the Middle Ages, it was the earth centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe

Question 7

Geography

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Study of people, their environments, and their resources and how they interact

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Ghetto

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Is a separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

Question 9

Glasnot

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Soviet Policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 10

Global Interdependence

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This occurs when the nations of the world have to depend on each other for needed products, resources, and technology

Question 11

Glorious Revolution

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Was the bloodless overthrow of the English King James II and his replacement by William and Mary. The revolutionary change was Parliament assuming control of the government at the expense of the monarchy

Question 12

Golden Age

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The high point of a civilization. It is a time of peace and prosperity. The people are living good lives. There is no lack of the essentials for life. There are intellectual achievements in the arts, the sciences, mathematics, and literature. Trade (Commerce) takes place with other civilization

Question 13

Great Depression

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Severe world wide economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929. Major features were banks and businesses closing closing, and extreme unemployment

Question 14

Green Revolution

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20th century attempt to increase food resources worldwide, involving the use of fertilizers and pesticides and the development of disease resistant crops

Question 15

Gross National Product (GNP)

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The total value of goods and services produced by a nation in one year

Question 16

Guerrilla

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Member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country. An example would be the Vietcong

Question 17

Guild

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During Middle Ages in Western Europe it is was a medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members’ wages and prices

Question 18

Haiku

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Form of Japanese poetry that expresses a feeling, thought, or an idea in three lines, or seventeen syllables

Question 19

Hadj (Hajj)

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The Pilgrimage to Mecca that all the Muslims are expected to make at least once in their lifetime

Question 20

Heliocentric Theory

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The belief that the sun is the center of the universe

Question 21

Hellenistic

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Term means relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century B.C.

Question 22

Heresy

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Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of a church

Question 23

Hierarchy

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Is a system of ranks. An example would be the social class system in a society

Question 24

Hieroglyphics

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Ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas

Question 25

Hegira

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Mohammed's flight or escape from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D. THis is the start of the Islamic Religion

Question 26

Holocaust

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Mass extermination of 12 million people, especially Jews, by Hitler's Nazi Government before and during World War II

Question 27

Home Rule

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Local Self Government

Question 28

Hunter Gatherer

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Member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods. An example would be Paleolithic Man

Question 29

Ideograph

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Symbol that represents a thought or idea. Example would be the ancient Sumerian wedge shaped writing known as cuneiform

Question 30

Ideology

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System of thought and belief

Question 31

Imperialism

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Domination by one country of the political economic or cultural life of another country or region

Question 32

Indigenous

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MEans original or native to a country or region

Question 33

Indulgence

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In the Roman Catholic Church it is a pardon for sins committed during a persons lifetime. These pardons which had to be paid for were the major disagreement that Martin Luther had with the Roman Catholic Church

Question 34

Industrial Revolution

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Economic Revolution which started in England in the 18th century. The major revolutionary change was that goods formerly made by hand were now made by machines