Unit 19

Question 1

____ is a placewhere a conflict has turn to violence or has a threat of violence

Answer 1

hotspot

Question 2

_____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about government issues

Answer 2

Political hotspot

Question 3

____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about social issues

Answer 3

ethnic hotspot

Question 4

Which ethnic hotspot occurred in Serbia which was the Christians versus Muslim minorities

Answer 4

Balkan mountains

Question 5

After communist Yugoslavia broke up, Serbia try to eliminate ______ by genocide or “ethnic cleansing”

Answer 5

Muslims

Question 6

The Sudan hotspot consisted of

Answer 6

Arab Sudanese vs black African Sudanese

Question 7

In Sudan a renegade group Janjaweed” attempted to eliminate who by genocide?

Answer 7

Black citizens

Question 8

_____ controlled Northern Ireland, which upset the Irish Catholics

Answer 8

British Protestants

Question 9

IRA was what terrorist group in Northern Ireland?

Answer 9

Irish Republican Army

Question 10

North and South _____, where the north repeatedly threatens to take over the south

Answer 10

Korea

Question 11

North Korea has created _____?

Answer 11

Nuclear weapons

Question 12

Communist China wants _______ to be a part of the People’s Republic of China

Answer 12

Taiwan

Question 13

US defends Taiwan against ____?

Answer 13

China

Question 14

Communist China cracks down on who?

Answer 14

Tibet Buddhists

Question 15

______ wants to break away from Russia and become their own country

Answer 15

Chechnya

Question 16

Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan

Answer 16

Taliban and Al Queda

Question 17

Us and allies have been trying to rid _____ of Islamic fundamentalist groups

Answer 17

Afghanistan

Question 18

US tried to set up a democratic government in ____?

Answer 18

Iraq

Question 19

_______ had control of Iraq at some point

Answer 19

Saddam Hussien

Question 20

______ was a movement in the mid-1800s by Jewish people worldwide to get back their homeland of Israel

Answer 20

Zionism

Question 21

________ was an official statement issued on behalf of the British government announcing it support for a proposal for the Jewish people in Palestine

Answer 21

Balfour Declaration

Question 22

_____ was when the UN wanted to split up Palestine in 1947

Answer 22

UN partition

Question 23

With the UN partition the ___ got half and ____ got half

Answer 23

Jewish people and Palestine

Question 24

In 1948 The Jewish people declared their half to be the independent nation of _____

Answer 24

Israel

Question 25

____ has never lost any of the four wars that have occurred between then and their Arab neighbors

Answer 25

Israel

Question 26

The Jewish people are also known as

Answer 26

Hebrews or israelies

Question 27

The jewish people claim that Israel was promised to them by who?

Answer 27

God

Question 28

The Palestinians are also known as

Answer 28

The Arabs or the Muslims

Question 29

The Palestinians claim that they have a right to the land because

Answer 29

They have lived there for over 2000 years

Question 30

The Palestinians use what to try to make Israel leave

Answer 30

Terrorism

Question 31

The PLO is what?

Answer 31

The Palestinian liberation organization – a Palestinian terrorist group

Question 32

Yessir Arafat was

Answer 32

And early leader of the PLO and prime minister of Palestine as of 2003

Question 33

_____ is usually used by the PLO to get attention and used to disrupt peace attempts

Answer 33

Terrorism

Question 34

_____ was a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978

Answer 34

The Camp David Accords

Question 35

_____ was the first nation to fully recognize Israel's right to exist

Answer 35

Egypt

Question 36

Radicals in Palestine and Israel often ruin

Answer 36

Peace attempts

Question 37

Palestine now wants to be a

Answer 37

Independent nation

Question 38

Iraelies now want

Answer 38

Security in the region

Question 39

________ was put in charge of Iran by the US

Answer 39

Mohammed Pahlavi

Question 40

Mohammed Pahlavi called himself the

Answer 40

Shah of Iran

Question 41

Pahlavi ruled Iran like a

Answer 41

Dictator

Question 42

Many Iranians did not like

Answer 42

Pahlavi or the US

Question 43

The rise of ________ occurred when Khomeini called for more Islamic fundamentalist to take over other secular government's

Answer 43

Islamic fundamentalism

Question 44

Khomeini was a religious leader and Islamic fundamentalist that started the

Answer 44

Iranian Revolution

Question 45

_______ was a movement of some Muslims to focus on more of a strict interpretation of Islamic law and customs

Answer 45

Islamic fundamentalism

Question 46

Islamic fundamentalists usually oppose

Answer 46

Western culture

Question 47

_____ was a fight over a border dispute near Persian gulf

Answer 47

Iran-Iraq War

Question 48

What was settled by the Iran Iraq war?

Answer 48

Nothing

Question 49

______ is where islamic fundamentalist groups often interfere with the culture of western nations

Answer 49

Terrorism

Question 50

Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda are all

Answer 50

Terrorist organizations that support Islamic fundamentalist ideas

Question 51

What is the main cause the Persian Gulf War because

Answer 51

Iraq invaded Kuwait to get their oil and access the their deep water port

Question 52

A lot of _________ damage was done during the Persian gulf war

Answer 52

Environmental

Question 53

_______ was plugged in the power after the Persian Gulf war

Answer 53

Saddam Hussein

Question 54

The US attempted to find it aluminate weapons of mass destruction in like nuclear biological and chemical weapons during the ____?

Answer 54

US-Iraq war

Question 55

The US Iraq war was ____ but the US stayed to protect Iraqi's and establish a safe government

Answer 55

short

Question 56

Saddam Hussein is captured and executed during what war?

Answer 56

US - Iraq War

Question 57

What were the results of the US Iraq war

Answer 57

Saddam Hussein's government was eliminated

Question 58

______ is an issue between 2 or more groups in a culture- sometimes with violence

Answer 58

Conflict