Chapter 18,19 & 20 Flashcards
This is the name given to a 1917 letter Fromm British foreign secretary who seemed to make promises to both Zionists and Palestinians.
Balfour Declaration
This occurred in 1956 when Egyptian president Gamal Nasser seized control of certain French and British business interests in Egypt.
Suez Crisis
This resulted in Israel’s 1967 annexation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and West Bank.
Six-Day War
In 1978, this Israeli prime minister signed the Camp David Accords and agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
Menachem Begin
The Egyptian president signed the Camp David Accords and recognized Israel as a legitimate state enraging many Arabs.
Anwar Sadat
This Egyptian president took office after the assassination of Anwar Sadat by Muslim extremists in 1981; he kept the peace with Israel.
Hosni Mubarak
In the 1970s and 1980s, this group’s military wing conducted a violent campaign against Israel, which, in turn, bombed Palestinian towns thought to be the group’s strongholds.
PLO
In the late 1980s, Palestinians began this “uprising,” a campaign of civil disobedience that succeeded in putting international pressure on Israel.
intifada
This Palestinian leader took part in reaching the Oslo peace agreement.
Yasir Arafat
This Israeli prime minister signed the Oslo peace agreement and was assassinated in 1095 by a Jewish extremist.
Yitzhak Rabin
Before 1990, the most powerful policy-making body in the Soviet Union was
the Politburo
The reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union were begun by
Mikhail Gorbachev
All of the following occurred in response to glasnost EXCEPT
the privatization of small businesses.
The purpose of perestroika was to
revive the Soviet economy.
The end result of the August coup attempt was to increase the power of
Boris Yeltsin
Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS, had formerly been
part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” plan required the Russian government to
dramatically reduce its involvement in the economy.
After the Communist Party in his nation lost power, Lech Walesa became the first freely elected leader of
Poalnd
Although the group known as Solidarity eventually obtained wide public support and political power, it began as simply an organization of
workers
Some European nations were hesitant to support the reunification of Germany because of fears that it would
attempt to dominate Europe
Vaclav Havel was elected president of
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia was led from 1945 to 1980 by
Josip Tito
Te brutal policy of ethnic cleansing was most widely used against
Bosnian Muslims
The main purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to
preserve revolutionary Communist values
The Chinese premier who made the first overtures towards establishing a more open relationship with the West was
Zhou Enlai
The program that Deng Xiaoping embrace and referred to as the “second revolution” included the goals of the
Four Modernizations
The students who were killed in Tiananmen Square were protesting the Chinese government’s
Lack of political freedom
The government’s response to the protest in Tiananmen Square resulted in all of the following EXCEPT the
disruption of China’s economic progress
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping we all
participants in the war between Communists and Nationalist
NASA and the European space agency cooperated in the launch of
the Hubble Space Telescope
The Internet was originally developed for use in
scientific research
The term “genetic engineering” refers to
modifying the hereditary units in an organism
The successful cloning of an organism would, by definition, result in a new organism that was
genetically identical to the original
The “green revolution” was an effort to
produce food more efficiently
A developed nation is usually LOWER than an emerging nation with respect to
literacy
In the Gulf War, some 39 allied nations fought against the nation of
Iraq
The term “global economy” refers to financial interactions that
cross international borders
The major cause of damage to the atmosphere’s ozone layer is caused by
chlorofluorocarbons
A nation that opposed the principles of free trade would
establish import taxes
A multinational corporation is one that
operates in a number of countries
The purpose of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can be found in its name, in which proliferation refers to the
spread of something
Whose traditional homeland crosses the border of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq?
Kurds
What event do you think prompted the UN to issue the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
the Holocaust in Europe
Which world region has suffered the most from the AIDS epidemic?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Push factors of migration include lack of food due to drought, natural disasters and
political oppression
The major goal of radical religious and cultural terrorist groups is the destruction of
what they consider the forces of evil
Why do government officials find the use of chemical and biological agents in terrorist attacks particularly worrisome?
because biochemical agents are relatively easy to acquire
Terrorism that involves politically motivated attacks on information systems is known as
cyberterrorism
Osama bin Laden used mountain hideouts in Afghanistan as a base of operations for his global network of terrorists know as
al-Qaeda
One criticism leveled at the USA Patriot Act is that it
allows the government to infringe on people’s civil rights
The cultural trait LEAST likely to be significantly affected by popular culture is
religious beliefs
The product most likely to be found in an American household is
a television
English is referred to as the “premier international language” because
it is the most widespread of any manguage
The definition of materialism, as the word is used in this chapter, is the
“mindset of placing a high value on acquiring material possessions”
What methods might a country use to ensure that global popular culture does not overwhelm its national culture and traditions?
all of the above
