Regents Review - 10th Grade Vocabulary Terms

Definition of the Information Age

In what two cities did America drop atomic bombs on Japan?

The main reason for the formation of OPEC is to

What is the goal of the United Nations?

What did Otto Von Bismarck do?

Name of the French leader who ruled over the Reign of Terror during the revolution

Definition of Epidemic

Who were the two leaders that emerged to lead independence movements in Africa in the 1960's?

Global Warming & Climate Change is the direct result of

What was the goal of the student protestors at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

Definition for the Industrial Revolution

What nation in Africa has the AIDS epidemic impacted the most?

Major cause of the French Revolution

Name of the leader of the Latin American independence movement

In modern times which group of people do Jews often violently clash with in Israel?

Definition of Communism

What is the best definition of imperialism?

Saddam Hussein was the leader of which Middle Eastern country?

What is the definition of appeasement?

Definition of Nuclear Proliferation

Which major leader emerged to end the system of apartheid in South Africa?

What is the best definition of civil disobedience?

Which revolution resulted in the establishment of an Islamic religious government?

The Sepoy Mutiny and the Boxer Rebellion were both attempts to

Which leaders policies included glasnost and perestroika?

Who was The Cold War between?

Definition of globalization and economic interdependence

Example of the Developed Nation

Definition of the Berlin Conference of 1884

Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was his plan to

Lenin's New Economy Policy, Gorbachev's Perestroika, Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations

Which person is associated with the use of civil disobedience and the Salt March in India?

The purpose of both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to

Definition of Desertification

Name of the leader of the Haitian Revolution

Which country did Kemal Ataturk westernize and modernize?

The Treaty of Versailles was

The genocide that occurred between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's took place where in 1994?

Why did Hitler fail in capturing Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad?

Why did the people welcome Napoleon's rule during the French Revolution?

Which group of countries earns much of their revenue from the sale of oil?

The main goal of NAFTA and the EU is to

Definition of Deforestation

In which nation did Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge commit a genocide in the 1970's?

What is the definition of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans?

Which country did Vladimir Lenin lead a communist revolution in?

The South African governments policy of racial separation from 1948 - 1994 was called

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was significant because

Ho Chi Minh was the Communist leader of which nation?

Where does DEFORESTATION take place the most in the world?

What two natural resources did Great Britain have that allowed them to industrialize first?

What happened to India after Gandhi succeeded in driving the British out of India in 1947?

What were the effects of the Meiji Restoration in Japan?

Why was India partitioned after the British left in 1947?

Example of a Developing Nation

Where does DESERTIFICATION take place the most in the world?

Definition of the Green Revolution