AP Flashcards

6549791389	1917	date of the Balfour Declaration	0
6549791390	1948	date that David Ben-Gurion declared the state of Israel	1
6549791391	1975	date of the Genocide of the elite wealthy people in Cambodia	2
6549791392	1990	date of the Persian Gulf War	3
6549791393	1992	date of the Genocide of Muslims in Bosnia	4
6549791394	1994	date of the Rwanda genocide	5
6549791395	1994	date that Mandela became president and the Apartheid ended	6
6549791396	2001	date of the 9/11 attacks on the US	7
6549791397	2003	date of the US war in Iraq	8
6555213330	tutsi	group in Rwanda that ran the government	9
6555214135	hutu	group in Rwanda that revolted against the Tutsi	10
6555215742	1 million	number of tutsi that died in the genocide	11
6555227313	homelands	areas of the country in s Africa that were set aside for blacks (worst parts of S Africa)	12
6549791398	Khmer Rouge	Communist party in Cambodia	13
6549791399	Pol Pot	Leader in Cambodia	14
6549791400	Milosevic	Invaded Bosnia claiming he was freeing fellow Serbians	15
6549791401	Apartheid	Separation of races	16
6549791402	Nelson Mandela	Leader of the African National Congress and after prison was the President of south Africa	17
6549791403	Boko Haram	Islamic terrorist group operating in Nigeria (Western education is sinful)	18
6549791404	Zionists	Group working towards a Jewish homeland in Palestine	19
6549791405	Balfour Declaration	Stated the right for a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine, as long as it does not displace Palestinians	20
6549791406	David Ben-Gurion	Announced the state of Israel	21
6549791407	Arab-Israeli war	Arabs retaliated against Israel and Israel gained control of Palestine within 6 months	22
6549791408	6-days war	Israel took West Bank, Sinai peninsula, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights	23
6549791409	Camp David Accords	Israel pulled out of Sinai and Egypt recognized their right to exist	24
6549791410	Yasser Arafat	Led the PLO	25
6549791411	Ariel Sharon	Prime minister of Israel	26
6549791412	Hamas and Fatah	Two groups of the Palestinian Authority	27
6549791413	Hamas	Islamic resistance movement. Terrorists tactics makes the a target of Israeli military	28
6549791414	Benjamin Netanyahu	Israels current prime minister who is willing to work with Fatah	29
6549791415	Hezbollah	Militant Shia group backed by Syria and Iran. Operates in the region of Israel	30
6549791416	Shah Reza	Shah who began to modernize Iran	31
6549791417	Ayatollah Khomeini	Led the Iranian theocracy after Shah was ousted from power	32
6549791418	Iran-Iraq War	Iraq invaded Iran over border disputes	33
6549791419	Sadam Hussein	Former president of Iraq. US aided him in the Iran Iraq war	34
6549791420	Hassan Rouhani	Current leader of Iran	35
6549791421	Persian Gulf War	Sadam Hussein had Iraq invade Kuwait to gain control of its oil reserves	36
6549791422	Weapons of mass destruction	The "coalition of countries" invaded Iraq because they believed Hussein had ______ __ _______ ________	37
6549791423	Sunni, Shiites, Kurds	Conflict still continues in Iraq between these three groups	38
6549791424	Isis	The terrorist group that emerged once the US left Iraq	39
6549791425	2 million	How many people died in Afghanistan when the Soviets fought for communism	40
6549791426	Taliban	Fundamentalist group emerged as the new group in power in Afghanistan after the Soviets	41
6549791427	Osama Bin Laden	The Taliban gave him shelter (this is why the US attacked)	42
6549791428	1) US supports Israel 2) US has troops in Saudi Arabia 3) US is primary agent of globalization	Why Al Qaeda hates the US	43
6549791429	Al Qaeda	Responsible for 9/11 attacks on the US	44
6549791430	3000	How many died in 9/11 attacks	45
6549791431	Cold War	Last obstacle to global interaction and trade	46
6549791432	Internet	Created globally integrated financial networks	47
6549791433	European Economic Community	Transformed into the European Union with a single currency (Euro)	48
6549791434	Brexit	Englands process of leaving the EU	49
6549791435	World Bank	Give financial aid to world countries	50
6554485095	GATT	organization that wants to reduce tariff barriers to international trade	51
6554492785	G6	group of 6 countries - forum for industrialized democracies	52
6554494964	G8	group of 8 - discuss trade, global warming, and terrorism	53
6554497892	G7	russia excluded from group	54
6554499913	G20	group of 20 world leaders - industrialized and developing nations	55
6554706916	Chad	civil war here because of the attempt to impose Sunni Islamic Law on the people who are not Muslim	56
6554708538	Sudan	Islamic law imposed on the south - mostly black; indigenous religions	57
6554714457	Janjaweed	Darfur Muslims are at war with this government	58
6554730597	Dolly	first cloned sheep	59
6554732126	AIDS	originated from chimpanzee	60
6554734113	Sub Saharan Africa	region that suffers most from HIV	61
6554736952	30 million	how many people have died from AIDS	62
6554739276	megacity	city with population of 10 million or more	63
6554744308	globalization	means that the worlds connected because of the internet	64
6554758050	Chechnya	declared their independence from Russia and engaged in a 2 year fight	65
6554759152	Boris Yeltsin	put down the Chechnya revolt with 2 years of fighting	66
6554763140	Vladmir Putin	Boris Yeltsin's successor who jailed and murdered his opposition	67
6554768462	Cuba	economy collapsed when the Soviet Union no longer bought their sugar crop	68
6554771971	Timothy McVeigh	terrorist who blew up the federal building in OK city	69
6554778533	Irish Republican Army	attacked civilians in Britain because they wanted independence for Ireland	70
6554781151	Guantanamo Bay	US naval base in Cuba where terrorists were held and tortured	71
6554782770	Deng Xiaopeng	leader of China who employed economic liberalism and grew China's economy	72
6554787062	Xi Jinping	became China's leader in 2013	73
6554789953	Three Gorges Dam	largest hydroelectric project in the world on the Yangtze river	74
6554792786	Falun Gong	movement that combined Buddhism, Taoism, and martial arts and many were arrested because the government feared a large group like them	75
6555386805	african union	political and economic union of the 54 nations of africa	76
6555387405	roadmap to peace	UN plan to bring peace between Arabs and Israelis	77