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Unit 19 Flashcards

1
Q

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

A

hotspot

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2
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_____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about government issues

A

Political hotspot

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3
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____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about social issues

A

ethnic hotspot

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4
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Which ethnic hotspot occurred in Serbia which was the Christians versus Muslim minorities

A

Balkan mountains

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5
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After communist Yugoslavia broke up, Serbia try to eliminate ______ by genocide or “ethnic cleansing”

A

Muslims

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6
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The Sudan hotspot consisted of

A

Arab Sudanese vs black African Sudanese

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7
Q

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

A

Black citizens

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8
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_____ controlled Northern Ireland, which upset the Irish Catholics

A

British Protestants

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9
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IRA was what terrorist group in Northern Ireland?

A

Irish Republican Army

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10
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North and South _____, where the north repeatedly threatens to take over the south

A

Korea

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11
Q

North Korea has created _____?

A

Nuclear weapons

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12
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Communist China wants _______ to be a part of the People’s Republic of China

A

Taiwan

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13
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US defends Taiwan against ____?

A

China

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14
Q

Communist China cracks down on who?

A

Tibet Buddhists

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15
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______ wants to break away from Russia and become their own country

A

Chechnya

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16
Q

Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan

A

Taliban and Al Queda

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17
Q

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

A

Afghanistan

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18
Q

US tried to set up a democratic government in ____?

A

Iraq

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19
Q

_______ had control of Iraq at some point

A

Saddam Hussien

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20
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______ was a movement in the mid-1800s by Jewish people worldwide to get back their homeland of Israel

A

Zionism

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21
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________ was an official statement issued on behalf of the British government announcing it support for a proposal for the Jewish people in Palestine

A

Balfour Declaration

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22
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_____ was when the UN wanted to split up Palestine in 1947

A

UN partition

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23
Q

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

A

Jewish people and Palestine

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24
Q

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

A

Israel

25
Q

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

A

Israel

26
Q

The Jewish people are also known as

A

Hebrews or israelies

27
Q

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

A

God

28
Q

The Palestinians are also known as

A

The Arabs or the Muslims

29
Q

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

A

They have lived there for over 2000 years

30
Q

The Palestinians use what to try to make Israel leave

A

Terrorism

31
Q

The PLO is what?

A

The Palestinian liberation organization – a Palestinian terrorist group

32
Q

Yessir Arafat was

A

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

33
Q

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

A

Terrorism

34
Q

_____ was a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978

A

The Camp David Accords

35
Q

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

A

Egypt

36
Q

Radicals in Palestine and Israel often ruin

A

Peace attempts

37
Q

Palestine now wants to be a

A

Independent nation

38
Q

Iraelies now want

A

Security in the region

39
Q

________ was put in charge of Iran by the US

A

Mohammed Pahlavi

40
Q

Mohammed Pahlavi called himself the

A

Shah of Iran

41
Q

Pahlavi ruled Iran like a

A

Dictator

42
Q

Many Iranians did not like

A

Pahlavi or the US

43
Q

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

A

Islamic fundamentalism

44
Q

Khomeini was a religious leader and Islamic fundamentalist that started the

A

Iranian Revolution

45
Q

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

A

Islamic fundamentalism

46
Q

Islamic fundamentalists usually oppose

A

Western culture

47
Q

_____ was a fight over a border dispute near Persian gulf

A

Iran-Iraq War

48
Q

What was settled by the Iran Iraq war?

A

Nothing

49
Q

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

A

Terrorism

50
Q

Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda are all

A

Terrorist organizations that support Islamic fundamentalist ideas

51
Q

What is the main cause the Persian Gulf War because

A

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

52
Q

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

A

Environmental

53
Q

_______ was plugged in the power after the Persian Gulf war

A

Saddam Hussein

54
Q

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

A

US-Iraq war

55
Q

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

A

short

56
Q

Saddam Hussein is captured and executed during what war?

A

US - Iraq War

57
Q

What were the results of the US Iraq war

A

Saddam Hussein’s government was eliminated

58
Q

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

A

Conflict

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