Chapter 18 and 19 (section 4, section 3,4,5) Flashcards
1917 letter from a 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 the 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
This 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 1980’s, 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 1995 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
What did NOT occur in response to glasnost?
criticism of the government by the media
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, or CIS, had all 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
Poland
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 reunification of Germany because of fears that would
attempt to dominate Europe
Vaclav Havel was elected president of
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia was led from 1945 to 1980 by
Josip Tito
The 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 toward establishing a more open relationship with the West was
Zhou Enlai
The program that Deng Xiaoping embraced 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 did NOT result in…
disruption of China’s economic progress
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping were all
participants in the war between Communists and Nationalists
