Unit 19 Flashcards
____ is a placewhere a conflict has turn to violence or has a threat of violence
hotspot
_____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about government issues
Political hotspot
____ is a place where the conflict is mostly about social issues
ethnic hotspot
Which ethnic hotspot occurred in Serbia which was the Christians versus Muslim minorities
Balkan mountains
After communist Yugoslavia broke up, Serbia try to eliminate ______ by genocide or “ethnic cleansing”
Muslims
The Sudan hotspot consisted of
Arab Sudanese vs black African Sudanese
In Sudan a renegade group Janjaweed” attempted to eliminate who by genocide?
Black citizens
_____ controlled Northern Ireland, which upset the Irish Catholics
British Protestants
IRA was what terrorist group in Northern Ireland?
Irish Republican Army
North and South _____, where the north repeatedly threatens to take over the south
Korea
North Korea has created _____?
Nuclear weapons
Communist China wants _______ to be a part of the People’s Republic of China
Taiwan
US defends Taiwan against ____?
China
Communist China cracks down on who?
Tibet Buddhists
______ wants to break away from Russia and become their own country
Chechnya
Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan
Taliban and Al Queda
Us and allies have been trying to rid _____ of Islamic fundamentalist groups
Afghanistan
US tried to set up a democratic government in ____?
Iraq
_______ had control of Iraq at some point
Saddam Hussien
______ was a movement in the mid-1800s by Jewish people worldwide to get back their homeland of Israel
Zionism
________ was an official statement issued on behalf of the British government announcing it support for a proposal for the Jewish people in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
_____ was when the UN wanted to split up Palestine in 1947
UN partition
With the UN partition the ___ got half and ____ got half
Jewish people and Palestine
In 1948 The Jewish people declared their half to be the independent nation of _____
Israel
____ has never lost any of the four wars that have occurred between then and their Arab neighbors
Israel
The Jewish people are also known as
Hebrews or israelies
The jewish people claim that Israel was promised to them by who?
God
The Palestinians are also known as
The Arabs or the Muslims
The Palestinians claim that they have a right to the land because
They have lived there for over 2000 years
The Palestinians use what to try to make Israel leave
Terrorism
The PLO is what?
The Palestinian liberation organization – a Palestinian terrorist group
Yessir Arafat was
And early leader of the PLO and prime minister of Palestine as of 2003
_____ is usually used by the PLO to get attention and used to disrupt peace attempts
Terrorism
_____ was a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978
The Camp David Accords
_____ was the first nation to fully recognize Israel’s right to exist
Egypt
Radicals in Palestine and Israel often ruin
Peace attempts
Palestine now wants to be a
Independent nation
Iraelies now want
Security in the region
________ was put in charge of Iran by the US
Mohammed Pahlavi
Mohammed Pahlavi called himself the
Shah of Iran
Pahlavi ruled Iran like a
Dictator
Many Iranians did not like
Pahlavi or the US
The rise of ________ occurred when Khomeini called for more Islamic fundamentalist to take over other secular government’s
Islamic fundamentalism
Khomeini was a religious leader and Islamic fundamentalist that started the
Iranian Revolution
_______ was a movement of some Muslims to focus on more of a strict interpretation of Islamic law and customs
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic fundamentalists usually oppose
Western culture
_____ was a fight over a border dispute near Persian gulf
Iran-Iraq War
What was settled by the Iran Iraq war?
Nothing
______ is where islamic fundamentalist groups often interfere with the culture of western nations
Terrorism
Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda are all
Terrorist organizations that support Islamic fundamentalist ideas
What is the main cause the Persian Gulf War because
Iraq invaded Kuwait to get their oil and access the their deep water port
A lot of _________ damage was done during the Persian gulf war
Environmental
_______ was plugged in the power after the Persian Gulf war
Saddam Hussein
The US attempted to find it aluminate weapons of mass destruction in like nuclear biological and chemical weapons during the ____?
US-Iraq war
The US Iraq war was ____ but the US stayed to protect Iraqi’s and establish a safe government
short
Saddam Hussein is captured and executed during what war?
US - Iraq War
What were the results of the US Iraq war
Saddam Hussein’s government was eliminated
______ is an issue between 2 or more groups in a culture- sometimes with violence
Conflict
