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7-6.1--7-6.3 Review
Quick Overview of 7-6.1--7-6.3 (does NOT include all terms)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Osama bin Laden | leader of Al Qaeda, a Muslim, Arab, terrorist organization; killed by the U.S. in a 2011 raid |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Nationalist Indian leader who used non-violent civil disobedience techniques such as the Salt March and hunger strikes to gain Indian independence from Great Britain in 1947 |
| Persian Gulf War | 1991 war between the U.S. and its allies, and Iraq, which forced the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded; the U.S. won |
| Kwame Nkrumah | led his people in Ghana to independence by organizing boycotts and strikes just as Gandhi had done in India |
| European Union | an economic and political union of 27 member states located in Europe and formed in 1993 |
| Shock Therapy | Russian President Yeltsin’s abrupt shift of the Russian economy from communist to free market; it caused economic hardship while the change was happening |
| Nelson Mandela | black, South African leader who led and won the fight against apartheid in South Arica; became the first black, African President of South Africa |
| Global War on Terrorism | President George W. Bush’s plan to hunt down and get rid of all terrorist organizations in the world, wherever they might be |
| Terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 | Muslim, Arab, terrorist attacks against the United States; led to the “Global War on Terror,” and U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan |
| Saddam Hussein | President and dictator of Iraq, invaded Iran and Kuwait, captured and executed for war crimes after U.S. invaded Iraq |
| Apartheid | the policy of racial, political, and economic prejudice and discrimination against non-European peoples conducted by white rulers in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 |
| Collapse of the Soviet Union | December, 1991 – all fifteen Soviet republics declared independence, leading to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War; partly due to economic causes (Cold War expenses) and citizens’ desires for more rights |
| Non-violence Movement for India’s Independence | the campaign to peacefully resist British rule in India with methods such as the Salt March until India became independent |
| South Africa | a country on the southern tip of Africa colonized first by the Dutch, then the British, where whites imposed a racist and prejudiced system of apartheid against black Africans from 1948 to 1994 |
| Middle East | the region where the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia come together, its most important countries are Israel, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia |
| War in Iraq | U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003 because it was thought that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein supported terrorism; Hussein was overthrown and executed |
| War in Afghanistan | when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to destroy the terrorist group Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the local government which allowed Al Qaeda to operate in Afghanistan |
| Jomo Kenyatta | (“founding father” of Kenya, helped lead the Kenyan independence movement, and led the country from 1963 until his death in 1978 |
| Ground Zero | the exact center of a major attack, often referred to as the World Trade Center twin towers for the 9-11 attack |
| Russian Federation | the official name of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union |
| Euro | the official currency of countries which are members of the European Union; adopted in 1999, replaced the currencies of individual countries |
| the Taliban | the Islamic fundamentalist government in Afghanistan that supported Al Qaeda and allowed it to use Afghanistan as a base |
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