Chapter 27-The Rise of Globalism Flashcards
Who was the dictator of Iraq who invaded the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait in August 1990?
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was the dictator of what country and invaded Kuwait in August 1990?
Iraq
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, invaded the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of:
Kuwait
Who was the U.S. President who, along with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, prepared to protect the other Arab nations, repulse the Iraqi threat, and liberate Kuwait?
George H. W. Bush
What operation began on January 16, 1991, as UN forces took the offenses and began round-the-clock bombing of Iraqi troop positions and headquarters?
Operation Desert Storm
In what year on January 16 did Operation Desert Storm begin?
1991
President Bush placed ____________________, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in command of Operation Desert Storm; for the first time since World War II, the American President and Congress followed the counsel of a military commander.
General Colin Powell
Who was appointed to lead the troops into combat in the fight against Iraq?
General Norman Schwarzkopf
What is a violent act committed by a person or group that is meant to make others cower in fear, usually for political or religious purposes?
Terrorism
Who was the Saudi-born Islamic terrorist who headed al-Qaeda, a terrorist network of Islamic fundamentalists, and was the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks?
Osama bin Laden
The terrorist Osama bin Laden headed what terrorist network of Islamic fundamentalists?
al-Qaeda
What American president declared a “war on terrorism” within days of the 9-11 attack, and created the Bush Doctrine?
George W. Bush
What was the doctrine that warned that nations that harbored terrorists would be treated as enemies by the United States?
Bush Doctrine
The United States demanded that the fanatical Islamic government in Afghanistan, called the _________________, surrender Osama bin Laden, the terrorist behind the 9-11 attacks. When the Islamic government refused to turn over bin Laden, American forces invaded the nation, toppling the government.
Taliban
What was the exact date for Bush ordering the bombing of Iraq, with the support of Congress, and by April 9 Saddam Hussein’s government had toppled as U.S. forces controlled most of Iraq’s capital city, Baghdad?
March 19, 2003
The collapse of Hussein’s government in Iraq did not end problems in Iraq. Pockets of Muslim terrorist groups, called ________________, continued to fight.
Insurgents
Iran showed some signs of moderation when its people elected the moderate __________________ in 1997, but was replaced in 2004.
Mohammed Katami
Who was elected president of Iran in 2005, who supported the annihilation of Israel?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Who was the British Prime Minister who immediately supported the United States in denouncing the terrorist attacks and in the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and was the longest-ruling Labour prime minister?
Tony Blair
Who was Pakistan’s president who unlike some of the other Muslim leaders, sided quickly with the United States, and supported the U.S. opposition to the Taliban and the invasion into Afghanistan to capture bin Laden by allowing the U.S. to use airbases in Pakistan?
Pervez Musharraf
Who was the person who opposed Musharraf, called for democratic reforms, had earlier been Pakistan’s first female prime minister, and was assassinated in December of 2007 and Musharraf was blamed for the attack?
Benazir Bhutto
Much of the conflict between Pakistan and India has been over ________________, located in a predominately Muslim region of the Himalayas, which was occupied by India in the 1940s.
Kashmir
The rise of a global economy and increased competition from foreign regions, especially the nation’s of the Pacific Rim, prompted a movement toward further European economic integration, resulting in the _______________ in December 1991; which set in motion a plan to form a European central bank with a single, unified currency for all the members of the European Economic Community by January 1, 1999.
Maastricht Treaty
In 1994, the European Economic Community (EEC) became known as the:
European Union (EU)
Who succeeded Britain’s prime minister Tony Blair, was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, was also a member of the Labour Party, and like Blair, continued to face the problems surrounding terrorism and whether or not Great Britain would adopt the European Union treaty?
Gordon Brown
What is the 31-mile-long tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking Great Britain and France, that began construction in 1987?
Chunnel
Who was France’s Socialist president whose unprecedented 14-year reign came to an end in 1995?
François Mitterand
Who succeeded François Mitterand in Britain, was in office from 1995-2007, and was a representative of a Conservative party coalition?
Jacques Chirac
Who was elected president in Britin in 2007, succeeded Jacques Chirac, and was noted for his conservative and pro-American views?
Nickolas Sarkozy
Who was the German chancellor who led his country from 1982 to 1998, making him the longest-ruling leader in Germany’s postwar history?
Helmut Kohl
Who was the woman succeeded Helmut Kohl as chancellor in Germany in 2005, making her the first woman chancellor in Germany’s history?
Angela Merkel
What is democratic socialism now referred to as, and is a coalition of private industry and government?
Managed capitalism
What were the two republics who declared their independence in June 1991, and Serbian forces attacked shortly after?
Slovenia
Croatia
What two republics declared their independence shortly after Slovenia and Croatia did?
Macedonia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
What Muslim capital of Bosnia did the Serbian forces lay siege to, and began to bombard the city with artillery and small-arms fire?
Sarajevo
Reports of _________________ (genocide) of Muslims by the Serbs resulted in UN condemnation of Serbia.
Ethnic cleansing
Following NATO’s show of force against the Bosnia Serbs, Serbian president _________________ urged the Bosnian Serbs to end hostilities, and a cease-fire was agreed to in October 1995.
Slobodan Milošević
Serbian President Slobodan Milošević urged the Bosnian Serbs to end hostilities, and a cease-fire was agreed to in October 1995. The various factions later met at a peace conference at a U.S. Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in the:
Daytona Peace Accords
What is the autonomous region within Serbia, mainly populated by Albanians, where unrest between the Albanians (Muslims) and Serbians (Eastern Orthodox) continued?
Kosovo
In 1994, Russian President Yeltsin sent 40,000 Russian troops to the dissident republic of ________________ in the Caucasus Mountains to brutally crush the nation’s independence movement.
Chechnya
Who was Yeltsin’s successor, was appointed to be his successor in 2000, and under him many of the Russian’s new freedoms were reversed?
Vladimir Putin
Who did was Putin’s protégé, and was selected to follow Putin in office?
Dmitri Medvedev
Who was the leader of China who pursued his plan of Four Modernizations, aimed at improvements in industry, military, technology, and agriculture?
Deng Xiaoping
Under Deng Xiaoping, China pursued his plan of ____________________, aimed at improvements in industry, military, technology, and agriculture.
Four Modernizations
After World War II, North Korea was ruled by the Communist dictator __________________, whose regime has been heavily supported by the Soviet Union and China, but over time became more isolated, even from its Communist neighbors.
Kim Il Sung
Who succeeded Kim Il Sung in 1994, and North Korea became the only Communist dynasty?
Kim Jong Il
Who succeeded Kim Jong Il in 2009, continuing the Communist dynasty whose aggressive actions are a growing concern for nations around the world?
Kim Jong UN
In what country, which became independent of South Africa in 1990, did the UN and the United States negotiate a peace agreement that provided for the withdrawal of Cuban and Angolan troops and recognized the “South West Africa People’s Organization” as the official government of the country?
Namibia
In Namibia, the UN and the United States negotiated a peace agreement that provided for the withdrawal of Cuban and Angolan troops and recognized the ___________________, a Marxist terrorist group, as the official government of Namibia.
SWAPO, “South West Africa People’s Organization”
In what two countries in central Africa were events dominated by bloody conflicts and between 1994 and 1995, at least 500,000 people died in one of these countries when the Hutu tribe attacked the Tutsi tribe?
Rwanda (tribe attacks)
Zaire
Between 1994 and 1995, at least 500,000 people died in Rwanda when what tribe attacked what people?
Hutu tribe attacked the Tutsi people
In 1991, a civil war broke out in the East African nation of:
Somalia
Along the West African coast, the country of ______________ also experienced a civil war that began in 1989. A series of shaky cease-fire agreements gave some respite from the violence, but heavily armed gangs of youths still stalked the streets of Monrovia, the capital city.
Liberia
Who became the leader of Liberia on September 3, 1996, becoming the first woman head of state in Africa?
Ruth Perry
One of the most serious conflicts involving Muslim terrorism unfolded in the ________________, Africa’s largest country, where the Islamic government of the north waged a war of persecution against the Christian and animist Nubian tribes of the south.
Sudan
