World issues unit 2 test Flashcards
Left Wing
Liberal side of politics.
Right Wing
Conservative side of politics.
Rohingya
The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Communism
A political advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. (Far
Left).
Smoking Gun
In politics, the term “smoking gun” refers to a piece of evidence that definitively proves a crime or wrongdoing by an official.
Bush Doctrine
The idea by Bush that America can treat all countries that support terrorists against the U.S. as enemies. It also asserts the right that the U.S. can take preemptive action against nations that it feels might pose terrorist threats.
Taliban
Ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.
Al Qaeda
Is a multinational militant Sunni Islamic extremist network composed of Salafist jihadists. Osama Bin Laden was a founder of Al Qaeda.
Guns Vs Butter
It can buy either guns (invest in defense/military) or butter (invest in the production of goods, social programming), or a combination of both.
Mujahedeen
an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community.
Islamism
A political philosophy based on Islamic values which holds wide appeal in the Muslim world. strict and conservative beliefs violence is justified to enforce beliefs.
Jihad
Holy War
Sharia Law
It is a code of living that most Muslims adopt as part of their faith. Accepted by Muslims as the Divine Code and Allah’s will for the rules of human life.
Terrorism
Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons, or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstances unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of apolitical, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious, or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.
Axis of Evil
U.S. (dark blue) president Bush’s “axis of evil” includes Iran, Iraq, and North Korea (darker red).
Blowback
is a term used by the CIA for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert United States operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government?
ISIS
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a militant Islamist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows the Salafi jihadist branch of Sunni Islam.
Sunni/Shiite
The Sunnis recognize the first four caliphs as the Prophet Muhammad’s rightful successors. Shi’a focus on the lineage of Muhammad’s family through a series of Imams.
The Beliefs of Left Wing and Right Wing
Generally, the left wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” while the right wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”.
The 4 Factors Of Armed Conflict:
Territorial: (Israel and Palestine), (India and Pakistan)
Cultural Values And Beliefs: Rohingya in Myanmar
Conflicts Over Natural Resources: Iraq war in 1990
Political Instability: The Taliban in Afghanistan in 1996
World Military Spending: The Top Three countries in military spending are:
- USA 2. China 3. India
What is Islamism?
a political philosophy based on Islamic values which holds wide appeal in the Muslim world. Muslim nations should look to their religion for political answers.
The 5 Key beliefs of Islamism are:
MUST PRESERVE MUSLIM CULTURE
NEED FOR GOVERNMENTS LIKE THOSE OF OLD EMPIRES
A RETURN TO ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT, REGAIN GREATNESS AND MAYBE UNITE AS AN EMPIRE
SMALLER GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR
SHARIA SHOULD BE THE BASIS FOR LAW
The Accenency Of The Taliban
After the Soviet war, 1992 mujahedeen take over and rival groups fight for control Mohammed Omar formed the Taliban out of disgust with these mujahideen forces and imposed sharia law in 1996. Women were completely barred from any occupations and restricted from appearing in public.
The US retaliation of 9/11 in Afghanistan
The Bush administration announced a War on Terror, with the stated goals of bringing bin Laden and al-Qaeda to justice and preventing the emergence of other terrorist networks. Bush says to the Taliban “Hand over bin Laden or face the American military”. Operation Enduring Freedom. (new operation name)
How is 9/11 an example of blowback for the US? What is it a retaliation for?
US had left Afghanistan after the Soviets leave (1979-1989)
-the mujahedeen felt abandoned after the US had won a Cold War battle and felt the US had not
helped them to rebuild Afghanistan. By supporting Israel, the US has become an enemy of God in the opinion of extremists such as bin Laden and a prime target for Muslim terrorism groups like al Qaeda.
Iraq- Why did the US go here in 2003?
The focus by mid-2002 narrowed on dictator Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq. Bush warned that the possession of such weapons in the hands of an evil ‘megalomaniac” was a grave threat to peace, in the Middle East and the world at large. Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 19, 2003. No smoking gun. Saddam Ḥussein was captured on December 13, 2003, (Operation Red Dawn) and was turned over to Iraqi authorities in June 2004 to stand trial for various crimes. he was convicted of crimes against humanity and was executed on December 30, 2006.
Death of bin Laden
Built al Qaeda into an Islamic terrorist organization. April 29, 2011: President Obama authorized the CIA to conduct a raid called Operation Neptune Spear on Pakistan
May 2nd:
President announced that bin Laden had been killed in the operation. There is general agreement that bin Laden and al Qaeda were directly or indirectly responsible for the following:
1992
Yemen hotel bombing (the target was American soldiers on their way to Somalia)
1993
truck bombing of the World Trade Center in New York
1996
attack on American military barracks in Saudi Arabia
1998
Tanzania and Kenya African embassy bombings
2000
attack on naval ship, the USS Cole
2001
assault on World Trade Center and Pentagon,
