HGS Exam review

Vocabulary

The Yalta ConferenceThe London ConferenceJoseph StalinThe Grand AllianceSphere of InfluenceDétenteMilitary Defence AlliancePure Command EconomiesThe Potsdam ConferenceThe Marshall PlanThe Allied Control CouncilSuperpower

Satellite CountriesRed ScareBalance of PowerPure Market EconomiesNATOHarry TrumanThe Warsaw PactCo-existenceIsolationismCold WarIron CurtainLend-Lease Act 1941

More vocabulary!• SPUTNIK• COLD WAR• SUPER POWER• COMBAT ALERT• MIKHAIL GORBACHEV• THE HIPPIES• BLACK SATURDAY• DÉTENTE• MUTUALLY ASSURED

DESTRUCTION• THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR• MASSIVE RETALLIATION

• STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

• ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES

• STRATEGIC DEFENCE INIATIVE

• RONALD REAGAN• THE BEAT GENERATION• JOHN KENNEDY• FIDEL CASTRO • LIBERALISM• PERSONALITY CULT• PARTIAL TEST BAN TREATY• NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY• THE PLATT AMENDMENT• JOSEPH MCCARTHY• NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV• SALT I• SALT II• PRAGUE SPRING• EXCOM GROUP• MUNROE DOCTRINE• BAY OF PIGS INVASION

Possible essay topics

• The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

• The Berlin Blockade

• Military Defence Allliances

• The Cold War

• The Nuclear Arms Race

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

Unit 2 Vocabulary• Colonialism• Latin America• Economic Growth• Dependence• Gross National Product• Tariff• Imperialism• Physical Quality of Life Index• Unilever• Independence• Sustainable Population Growth• First World• Development• Balance of Trade• Less Industrialized Countries

• Second World• Distribution of Wealth• Neocolonialism• Third World• Industrialization• Multinational Company• Least Developed Country• North/South• Aid• Newly Industrialized Country• Brandt Commission• Sustainable Development• Bandung Conference• Colonialism• “Mother Country”• Self- reliance

Essay Choices

• North / South

• Explaining the Gap: The Historical Background

• Multinational Corporations

Unit 3 Vocabulary• Racism• Genocide• Nuremburg trials• Crimes against humanity• Common good • Apartheid• First wave feminism• Second wave feminism• Aboriginal people

Unit 3 people!

• Gandhi

• W.E. DeBois

• Marcus Garvey

• Elijah Harper

• Gloria Steinem

Possible essay questions

• The Pursuit of Justice

• Apartheid and South Africa

• The 20th Century Women’s Movement

• The Creation of the State of Israel

Unit 4 Vocabulary!

• Urbanization

• Dependence

• Independence

• Advantage

• Change

• Industrialization

• Mass consumption

Possible essay questions

• How have urbanization and industrialization shaped city centers?

Unit 5

• Technology

• Biotechnology

• Erg

• Silicon

• Zipper

• Mass media

• Mass production

• robot

Possible essay questions

• Is technology a servant to humankind or have humans become servants to technology?

• Ethically, have we gone too far with technology?

• How has technology widened the North South gap?