AP World History Final Exam Study Guide
Know the following people, places and terms
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika
Glasnost
De-Stalinization
The China Population Policy
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nikita Khrushchev
The Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon
Apartheid
The Afrikaner National Party
The African National Congress
Nelson Mandela
Gamel Abdel Nasser
The Iran-Iraq War
Deng Xiaoping
Solidarity
The Warsaw Pact
The Bandung Conference
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The Balfour Declaration
The Suez Canal Crisis
Ho Chi Minh
The Year of Africa
The Vichy Government
Treblinka
Auschwitz
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
NATO
The Iron Curtain
The Long March
Mao Zedong
The First Five-Year Plan
Joseph Stalin
V.I. Lenin
Trotsky
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
The Battle of Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
The Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
The Treaty of Versailles
Peace, Land and Bread
The Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg
Sigmund Freud
John Maynard Keynes
Pablo Picasso
Albert Einstein
Black Thursday
The Russian Civil War
The Reds
The Whites
“Socialism in One Country”
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Franco
Social Darwinism
Gavrilo Princip
Francis Ferdinand
Self-determination
Pan-Slavism
The Schlieffen Plan
The Western Front
Trench Warfare
The Twenty-One Demands
The Boxer Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion
The Russo-Japanese War
Cecil Rhodes
The Suez Canal
The Berlin Conference
The Monroe Doctrine
Louverture
Simon Bolivar
William Wilberforce
The Luddites
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Proletariat
The Capitulations
The Ottomans
The Opium War
Mikhail Romanov
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Ivan the Terrible
“Westernization”
Patriarch Nikon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
The Ancien Regime
The National Assembly
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Napoleon
Waterloo
Suleiman the Magnificent
Osman Bey
Mehmet II
Akbar
Babur
The Mughal Empire
Fatehpur Sikri
Ivan III
Kiev
Moscow
“gathering of the Russian land”
The Cossacks
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Songhay empire
Gao
Timbuktu
Jenne
Mali
The Triangular Trade System
“Son of Heaven”
Footbinding
Zheng He
Martin Luther
Ninety-Five Theses
The Council of Trent
The Peace of Westphalia
Balance of Power
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Galileo Galilei
Nicholaus Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Deists
encomenderos
Be familiar with the following ideas, concepts or topics
Which U.S. President began the bombing campaign against North Vietnam?
Approximately how many people perished in World War II?
Ideologically speaking, what were the two competing sides in the Cold War?
What initiated the European part of World War II?
What was the primary reason the U.S. entered World War I?
Which nation forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853?
Who was the leader of the Safavid Empire at its height?
Who was the leader of the Mughal Empire at its peak?
During the early modern period in Africa what was the basis of social organization?