The last post, EVER.

Oh hey... This thing is still around! Hi, little sophomores! I'm officially in college now. :] I began this blog as an aid for the benefit of my fellow students, and while I thought about taking it down after each year, I never really got around to it. (Woe to my laziness.) Now those who happen to be in the know still benefit from all my hours of typing!

Who knows... One of these days I may actually get around to doing chapters 1-23. Don't hold your breath, though. I have plenty of other, more collegiate, things to be worrying about now, sigh.

Look to the collapsible set of links under 2007 to the right to grab your vocab. It starts from chapter 24 (roughly around the semester) and heads on in to the end of the book. Enjoy!

Your days will fly by fast! Hang tight to them, because they'll be gone (and you'll be an ancient behemoth like me) before you know it!

Wishes for your success,
J.Tani

Pre-AP Test

Because I found myself completely gauche when it comes to SATII subject tests, here are the basics of AP testing. Get used to it!

1) Go to collegeboard.com. Hit the "For Students" section, unless you've already told the site to send you to that page automatically. Sign in, foo.

2) You will see the page below. PRINT YOUR ADMISSION TICKET.


3) Go through the security checkpoint, click "Print admission ticket"...


...and print the darn thing already. Make sure you look under TEST DAY REQUIREMENTS:
Unless otherwise noted above, be sure to show up by 7:45 am. The test is 1 hour, 95 questions.

I don't believe in saying good luck, so, uh, I hope your mental facilities are well-prepared!
-J.Tani

Chapter 36 vocab

THE END IS NIGH.

CHAPTER 36 VOCAB
8 words

Mikhail Gorbachev (896)
USSR ruler after 1985; renewed attacks on Stalinism; urged reduction in nuclear armament; proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika.

glasnost (896)
Policy of openness or political liberation in Soviet Union put forward by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s.

perestroika (897)
Policy of Mikhail Gorbachev calling for economic restructuring in the USSR in the late 1980s; more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture.

Boris Yeltsin (899)
Began to move up the ladder of the Communist party in Soviet Union in 1968, becoming First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in 1985; initially a loyal backer of Gorbachev but increasingly criticized him for slow pace of reform; stood up to a coup attempt in 1991 but then managed to displace Gorbachev; in his position as president of the Russian republic, sponsored several subsequent constitutional provisions and weathered battles with opponents in parliament.

Persian Gulf War (903)
1991 war led by United States and various European and Middle Eastern allies, against Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. The war led to Iraqi withdrawal and a long confrontation with Iraq about armaments and political regime.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (904)
Agreement that created an essentially free trade zone among Mexico, Canada, and the United States, in hopes of encouraging economic growth in all three nations; after difficult negotiations, went into effect January 1, 1994.

globalization (908)
The increasing interconnectedness of all parts of the world, particularly in communication and commerce but also in culture and politics.

multinational corporations (910)
Powerful companies, mainly from the West or Pacific Rim, with production as well as distribution operations in many different countries. Multinationals surged in the decades after World War II.


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Pokemon, lolwhut?
My galumphing through the interwebs ends about now. :(

Chapter 35 vocab

Welcome back the carpal tunnel with ooooopen arms, babes.

CHAPTER 35 VOCAB
36 words

Pacific Rim (863)
Region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan; typified by rapid growth rates, expanding exports, and industrialization; either Chinese or strongly influenced by Confucian values; considerable reliance on government planning and direction, limitations on dissent and instability.

Taiwan (864)
Island off Chinese mainland; became refuge for Nationalist Chinese regime under Chiang Kai-shek as Republic of China in 1948; successfully retained independence with aid of United States; rapidly industrialized after 1950s.

Liberal Democratic party (866)
Monopolized Japanese government from its formation in 1955 into the 1990s; largely responsible for the economic reconstruction of Japan.

Republic of Korea (866)
Southern half of Korea sponsored by United States following World War II; headed by nationalist Syngman Rhee; developed parliamentary institutions but maintained authoritarian government; defended by UN forces during Korean War; underwent industrialization and economic emergence after 1950s.

People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (866)
Northern half of Korea dominated by USSR; long headed by Kim Il-Sung; attacked south in 1950 and initiated Korean War; retained independence as a communist state after the war.

Korean War (866)
Fought from 1950 to 1953; North supported by USSR and later People’s Republic of China; South supported by United States and small international United Nations force; ended in stalemate and continued division of Korea.

Hong Kong (867)
British colony on Chinese mainland; major commercial center; agreement reached between Britain and People’s Republic of China returned colony to China in 1997.

Hyundai (872)
Example of huge industrial groups that wield great power in modern South Korea; virtually governed Korea’s southeastern coast; vertical economic organization with ships, supertankers, factories, schools, and housing units.

Chiang Ching-kuo (874)
Son and successor of Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of Taiwanese government in 1978; continued authoritarian government; attempted to lessen gap between followers of his father and indigenous islanders.

Lee Kuan Yew (874)
Ruler of Singapore from independence in 1959 through three decades; established tightly controlled authoritarian government; ruled through People’s Action party to suppress political diversity.

People’s Republic of China (877)
Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.

Lin Biao (877)
Chinese commander under Mao; trained at Chiang Kai-shek’s Whampoa Academy in the 1920s.

party cadres (877)
Basis of China’s communist government organization; cadre advisors were attached to military contingents at all levels.

People’s Liberation Army (877)
Chinese Communist army; administered much of country under People’s Republic of China.

Mass Line (878)
Economic policy of Mao Zedong; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives in 1955; cooperatives became farming collectives in 1956.

Great Leap Forward (879)
Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed industrialization of small-scale projects integrated into peasant communes; led to economic disaster; ended in 1960.

pragmatists (880)
Chinese Communist politicians such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Ziaoping, and Liu Shaoqui; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level; opposed Great Leap Forward.

Zhou Enlai (880)
After Mao Zedong, the most important leader of the Communist party in China from the 1930s until his death in 1976; premier of China from 1954; notable as perhaps the most cosmopolitan and moderate of the inner circle of Communist leaders.

Liu Shaoqui (880)
Chinese Communist pragmatist; with Deng Xiaoping, came to power after Mao; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at local level.

Deng Ziaoping (880)
One of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leaders of China; joined the party as a young man in the 1920s, survived the legendary Long March and persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and emerged as China’s most influential leader in the early 1980s.

Jiang Qing (880)
Wife of Mao Zedong; one of Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported Cultural Revolution of 1965; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976.

Cultural Revolution (882)
Movement initiated in 1965 by Mao Zedong to restore his dominance over pragmatists; used mobs to ridicule Mao’s political rivals; campaign was called off in 1968.

Red Guard (882)
Student brigades utilized by Mao Zedong and his political allies during the Cultural Revolution to discredit Mao’s political enemies.

Gang of Four (883)
Jiang Qing and four political allies who attempted to seize control of Communist government in China from the pragmatists; arrested and sentences to life imprisonment in 1976 following Mao Zedong’s death.

Tayson Rebellion (884)
Peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the late 1770s; succeeded in toppling the Nguyen dynasty; subsequently unseated the Trinh dynasty of northern Vietnam.

Trinh (884)
Dynasty that ruled in northern Vietnam at Hanoi; rivals of Nguyen family in south.

Nguyen Anh (884)
Last surviving member of Nguyen dynasty following Tayson Rebellion in Vietnam; with French support retook southern Vietnam; drove Tayson from northern Vietnam by 1802; proclaimed himself emperor with capital at Hue; also known as Gia Long.

Minh Mang (884)
Second emperor of a united Vietnam; successor of Nguyen Anh; ruled from 1820 to 1841; sponsored emphasis of Confucianism; persecuted Catholics.

Vietnamese Nationalist party (885)
Also known as the Vietnamese Quoc Dan Dong or VNQDD; active in 1920s as revolutionary force committed to violent overthrow of French colonialism.

Communist party of Vietnam (886)
Originally a wing of nationalist movement; became primary nationalist party after decline of VNQDD in 1929; led in late 1920s by Nguyen Ai Quoc, alias Ho Chi Minh.

Ho Chi Minh (886)
Also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc; led Vietnamese Communist party in struggle for liberation from French and U.S. dominance and to unify north and south Vietnam.

Viet Minh (886)
Communist-dominated Vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during World War II; employed guerilla tactics similar to the Maoists in China.

Vo Nguyen Giap (886)
Chief military commander of the Viet Minh; architect of the Vietnamese victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Dien Bien Phu (886)
Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam.

Ngo Dinh Diem (887)
Political leader of South Vietnam; established as president with United States support in the 1950s; opposed Communist government of North Vietnam; overthrown by military coup supported by United States.

Viet Cong (887)
Name given by Diem regime to communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam; reorganized with northern Vietnamese assistance as the National Liberation Front in 1958.


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Our time is drawing to a close, loved ones! It was certain fugacious, was it not?

Chapter 34 vocab

CHAPTER 34 VOCAB
21 words

Bangladesh (837)
Founded as an independent nation in 1972; formerly East Pakistan.

Indira Gandhi (845)
Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru (no relation to Mahatma Gandhi); installed as a figurehead prime minister by the Congress party bosses in 1966; a strong-willed and astute politician, she soon became the central figure in India politics, a position she maintained through the 1970s and passed on to her sons.

Corazon Aquino (845)
First president of the Philippines in the post-Marcos era of the 1980s; Aquino, whose husband was assassinated by thugs in the pay of the Marcos regime, was one of the key leaders in the popular movement that toppled the dictator.

Jawaharlal Nehru (845)
One of Gandhi’s disciples; governed India after independence (1947); committed to program of social reform and economic development; preserved civil rights and democracy.

Benazir Bhutto (845)
Twice prime minister of Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s; first ran for office to avenge her father’s execution by the military clique then in power.

religious revivalism (846)
An approach to religious belief and practice that stresses the literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of their precepts to all aspects of social life; increasingly associated with revivalist movements in a number of world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.

primary products (846)
Food or industrial crops for which there is a high demand in industrialized economies; prices of such products tend to fluctuate widely; typically the primary exports of Third World economies.

neocolonial economy (846)
Industrialized nations’ continued dominance of the world economy; ability of the industrialized nations to maintain economic colonialism without political colonialism.

Gamal Abdul Nasser (850)
Took power in Egypt following a military coup in 1952; enacted land reforms and used state resources to reduce unemployment; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal zone in 1956.

Free Officers movement (850)
Military nationalist movement in Egypt founded in the 1930s; often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from khedive in July 1952.

Muslim Brotherhood (850)
Egyptian nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; committed to fundamentalist movement in Islam; fostered strikes and urban riots against the khedival government.

Anwar Sadat (853)
Successor to Gamal Abdul Nasser as ruler of Egypt; acted to dismantle costly state programs; accepted peace treaty with Israel in 1973; opened Egypt to investment by Western nations.

Hosni Mubarak (854)
President of Egypt since 1982; succeeding Anwar Sadat and continuing his policies of cooperation with the West.

Green Revolution (854)
Introduction of improved seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation as a means of producing higher yields in crops such as rice, wheat, and corn; particularly important in the densely populated countries of Asia.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (855)
Religious ruler of Iran following revolution of 1979 to expel the Pahlavi shah of Iran; emphasized religious purification; tried to eliminate Western influences and establish purely Islamic government.

homelands (857)
Under apartheid, areas in South Africa designated for ethnolinguistic groups within the black African population; such areas tend to be overpopulated and poverty-stricken.

African National Congress (858)
Black political organization within South Africa; pressed for end to policies of apartheid; sought open democracy leading to black majority rule; until the 1990s declared illegal in South Africa.

Walter Sisulu (858)
Black African leader who, along with Nelson Mandela, opposed apartheid system in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela (858)
Long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress party; worked with ANC leadership and F. W. de Klerk’s supporters to dismantle the apartheid system from the mid-1980s onward; in 1994, became the first black prime minister of South Africa after the ANC won the first genuinely democratic elections in the country’s history.

Steve Biko (858)
An organizer of Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, in opposition to apartheid; murdered while in police custody.

F. W. de Klerk (858)
White South Africa prime minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Working with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, de Klerk successfully dismantled the apartheid system and opened the way for a democratically elected government that represented all South Africans for the first time.

I have hand cramp like whoa from the two essays we did in a row. :\ No fair, Mr. Allen. I purposely leave my outline until Thursday evening, and I do well on your tests! *flail* Grrrnaghh!


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My word-of-the-post for this one was illimitable. Just how did I end up using that one in the proper context, anyway? ...Oh, yeah. In reference to the cuteness level at CuteOverload.com. Have you gone yet? Have you? You better. Get comfy with those bunnies and mousies and chickies.