Chapter 22 2nd Half Flashcards
(20 cards)
Young Turks
Helped overthrow Ottoman Empire
“Sick man of Europe”
Nickname of Ottoman Empire
Armenian Massacre
Killed by Ottoman Turks, thought to be helping Russia (genocide)
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
First president of turkey- westernize and modernize
Secularism
Separate religion and daily life
Diaspora
Scattering of Jews from Palestine
Zionism
Herzel- 1890’s movement to find Jews a homeland in Palemstine
Balfour Declaration
England promised Jews the homeland
United Nations
1945 world peacekeeping organization
Partitioned
Cut split divide
Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Pen
Arabs and Israel fight over this land
PLO
Arab terrorist organization trying to find Arabs a homeland
Yasir Arafat
Leader of PLO
Intifada
1987 Arab teens go violent on Israeli soldiers
“Road,map of Peace”
2002 nickname of steps taken to solve Arab-Israel dispute
IRA
Catholic terrorist organization based in Ireland-want 1 country
Bloody Sunday
14 Catholic Protestors killed by British troops in N. Ireland
Gerry Adams
President of SINN FEIN-political wing of IRA
“Powder keg of Europe”
Nickname of Balkan Peninsula/Yugoslavia
Milosevich
Leader of Serbia who preformed “ethnic cleansing” -mass killing of people