Vocabulary Flashcards
The Plillippines
relating to the Philippines
burma
is now Myanmar, Rangoon is Yangon, Prome is Pyay and Pegu is Bago.
Vietnam
is defined as a southeast Asian country on the South China Sea.
Geneva Accords
arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War.
TET offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army
Ho chi Minh
was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First secretary of the Workers’ Party of Vietnam.
Paris peace accords
was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
LAOS
a member of an indigenous people of Laos and northeastern Thailand
cambodia
is a Southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains, the Mekong Delta, mountains and Gulf of Thailand coastline
Muggabi
an Australian eucalyptus tree with dark bark and pink flowers
Belgian congo
was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Israel
is a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea
paltine
having local authority that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign
Suez Crisis
A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A
Ayatolah Khomeini
was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary, and politician
six day war
which was fought between June 5 and June 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt
yasir
one who makes things easier, one who directs to the right path, one who goes against the tide
arfat
was a Palestinian political leader
camp David accords
a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin,
Nehru Ghandi
Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India
OPEC
is a group consisting of 12 of the world’s major oil-exporting nations.
Kwame Nkrumah
led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president.
Ghana
a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N
Kenya
is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean
PanArabism
the principle or advocacy of political alliance or union of all the Arab states
Jomo Kenyatta
was a Kenyan politician who governed the Republic of Kenya as Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as President from 1964 to 1978.
maumau
also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, Mau Mau Revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a military conflict that took place in British Kenya between 1952 and 1960.
Quang Duc
also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, Mau Mau Revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a military conflict that took place in British Kenya between 1952 and 1960.
Zaibatsu
a large Japanese business conglomerate
SCAP
A set of standards for sharing security data developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
Khmer Rouqe
A communist guerrilla organization which opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960s and waged a civil war from 1970, taking power in 1975.
religious fundamentalism
refers to the belief of an individual or a group of individuals in the absolute authority of a sacred religious text or teachings of a particular religious leader, prophet,and/ or God
state caplialism
a political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital
Muslim league
One of the main political parties in Pakistan.
Indian national congress
A political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century.
Dali Lama
the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism and, until the establishment of Chinese communist rule, the spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet
singapore
an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population.
Hong Kong
is an autonomous territory, and former British colony, in southeastern China. Its vibrant, densely populated urban centre is a major port and global financial hub with a skyscraper-studded skyline.
west bank
is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of territory now under Israeli control, or else under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority control,
Nehru Gandi
is a prominent Indian political dynasty, which primarily consisted of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and her descendants
Mohammad Mossades
Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53
Iranian revolution
was the 1979 overthrow of Iran’s monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic.
Saddam Hussein
was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
Iran contraaffain
A scandal in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, which came to light when it was revealed that in the mid-1980s the United States secretly arranged arms sales to Iran in return for promises of Iranian assistance in securing the release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon.
PLO
A political and military organization formed in 1964 to unite various Palestinian Arab groups and ultimately to bring about an independent state of Palestine.
Kibbutz
a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm
Balfour declaration
was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
Bhutto
was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan and the leader of the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party. She was the first woman to head a Muslim majority nation.
Taliban
is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war
38th parallel
north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth’s equatorial plane.
Korean war
the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
