mrb.world - Era 4 Illustrative Examples

Illustrative Examples are specific topics chosen by College Board to represent certain historical developments. For example, knowing about the The New Deal and the fascist corporatist economy directly relates to the historical development "Following World War I and the onset of the Great Depression, governments began to take a more active role in economic life." in topic 7.4. (KC-6.3.I.B)

According to College Board, "These include possible examples of content that might be used to teach the historical development, process, or event. These are intended as examples and do not in any way constitute additional, preferred, or required information."

If you learn these specific examples, you will be better able to demonstrate your skills and understanding of the course content.

These are further identified with the themes of AP World History. See the Course Info page if you need to know what they all are!

Territorial gains:

Transfer of former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of League of Nations mandates
Manchukuo/Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Anti-imperial resistance:

Indian National Congress
West African resistance (strikes/congresses) to French rule

Western democracies mobilizing for war:

Great Britain under Winston Churchill
United States under Franklin Roosevelt

Totalitarian state mobilizing for war:

Germany under Adolf Hitler
USSR under Joseph Stalin

Nationalist leaders and parties:

Indian National Congress
Ho Chi Minh in French Indochina (Vietnam)
Kwame Nkrumah in British Gold Coast (Ghana)
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt

Negotiated independence:

India from the British Empire
The Gold Coast from the Empire
French West Africa

Independence through armed struggle:

Algeria from the French empire
Angola from the Portuguese empire
Vietnam from the French empire

Regional, religious, and ethnic movements:

Muslim League in British India
Quebecois separatist movement in Canada
Biafra secessionist in Nigeria

States created by redrawing of political boundaries:

Israel
Cambodia
Pakistan

Responses that intensified conflict:

Chile under Augusto Pinochet
Spain under Francisco Franco
Uganda under Idi Amin
The buildup of the military-industrial complex and weapons trading

Government intervention in the economy:

The New Deal
The fascist corporatist economy
Governments with strong popular support in Brazil and Mexico

Governments guiding economic life:

Gamal Abdel Nasser’s promotion of economic development in Egypt
Indira Gandhi's economic policies in India
Julius Nyerere’s modernization in Tanzania
Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s economic policies in Sri Lanka

Land and resource redistribution:

Communist Revolution for Vietnamese independence
Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia
Land reform in Kerala and other states within India
White Revolution in Iran

Economic movements:

World Fair Trade Organization

Governments’ increased encouragement of free-market policies:

The United States under Ronald Reagan
Britain under Margaret Thatcher
China under Deng Xiaoping
Chile under Augusto Pinochet

Knowledge economies:

Finland
Japan
U.S.

Asian production and manufacturing economies:

Vietnam
Bangladesh

Latin American production and manufacturing economies:

Mexico
Honduras

Economic institutions and regional trade agreements:

World Trade Organization (WTO)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Multinational corporations:

Nestle
Nissan
Mahindra and Mahindra

Genocide, ethnic violence, or attempted destruction of specific populations:

Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I
Cambodia during the late 1970s
Tutsi in Rwanda in the 1990s
Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s

Non-Aligned Movement:

Sukarno in Indonesia
Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana

Proxy wars:

Korean War
Angolan Civil War
Sandinista-Contras conflict in Nicaragua

Migrations:

South Asians to Britain
Algerians to France
Filipinos to the United States

Movements that used violence:

Shining Path
Al-Qaeda

Challenges to assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion:

The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially as it sought to protect the rights of children, women, and refugees
Global feminism movements
Negritude movement
Liberation theology in Latin America

Increased access to educational and political and professional roles:

The right to vote and/or to hold public office granted to women in the United States (1920), Brazil (1932), Turkey (1934), Japan (1945), India (1947), and Morocco (1963)
The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education, in most parts of the world
The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1965
The end of apartheid
Caste reservation in India

Responses to economic globalization: