Regents Exam Review Part 3

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Regents Exam Review Part 3

• 10th grade
• Global History and Geography
• Mr. Schwenebraten

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I. World War II

• Warsaw Pact Hitler and Stalin
• Opposite ends of the political spectrum

Fascism
Communism
Political Spectrum
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• Poland September 1939 WWII begins
• No barriers to stop Nazis

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• Holocaust
• Genocide

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• Result New boundaries in Europe

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II. Post World War II

• Iron Curtain Democracy/ Communist
• Satellites create buffer zone and expand
  Soviet POWER by pressure

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• Allied occupation
• Japan and
• Germany
• Nuremberg trials Crimes against humanity

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• Cold War no fighting Democracy vs. Communism
• Containment Domino theory

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• Important situations terms

• Berlin Airlift
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Arms race

• Space Race
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Vietnam and Korea

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• United Nations
• Peace keeping organization
• All major world powers are members (different
  from League of Nations)
• Security Council 15 members 5 permanent

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III. Changes

• Chinese Communist Revolution (1945-49)
• Communists gained support of peasants women
• Mao Zedong MAINDLAND

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• Nationalists corruption and people resented
  foreigners
• Jiang Jieshi TAIWAN

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• Deng Xiaoping Four Modernizations
• Farming, Industry, Science and Technology,
  Defense
• Like Gorbachev allowed for some privatization
  (capitalism)

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• India
• Split in 1947 Religious differences
• Hindu India
• Muslim Pakistan

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• Gandhi civil disobedience freedom from
  British 1947
• Caste system Gandhi tried to end

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• South Africa
• Apartheid
• legal separation of races
• Nelson Mandela
• End 1990

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• Iranian Revolution
• Ayatollah Khomeini 1979 declares Iran an
  Islamic Republic

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• Against the West, women lost rights, want
  adherence to Muslim TRADITION
• Islamic fundamentalism away from secular
• Middle East

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IV. End of the Cold War

• 1989 Berlin Wall torn down

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• 1991 Break up of the Soviet Union
• Gorbachev Glasnost and perestroika

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V. The World Today

• Economics
• EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, OAS
• REGIONAL COOPERATION to improve economy
  self-reliance

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• Cash Crop Economy
• Leads to problems ? trade deficit need to
  borrow

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• Human Rights born free and equal with dignity
  and rights
• Violations
• Armenians Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
• Muslims Kosovo
• Tutsis - Rwanda

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• Overpopulation
• Causes
• Religious beliefs, cultural factors, economic
  factors, lack of knowledge

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• Urbanization
• Results
• Traditions lost, poverty

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• Environment
• Ozone layer, global warming, deforestation,
  desertification, nuclear proliferation