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World History Ch 32
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1998 peace agreement between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland | Good Friday Agreement |
| Homeland of Muslim Chechen nationalists in former Soviet Union | Chechnya |
| Term meaning made up of several ethnic groups | multiethnic |
| Term for killing or removing people of different ethnic groups to make a region ethnically “pure” | ethnic cleansing |
| Serbian province where Albanians and Serbs fought | Kosovo |
| Which multiethnic society has AVOIDED violent conflict? | Malaysia |
| The war in Sri Lanka was between: | Buddhists and Tamils |
| What event led to nationalist unrest in the former Yugoslavia? | the fall of communism |
| While Yugoslavia was multiethnic, it was dominated by the: | Serbs |
| Slobodan Milosevic was: | the nationalist president of Serbia |
| Site of a 1960 massacre | Sharpeville |
| Site of ethnic conflict in western Sudan | Darfur |
| Nobel Prize-winning bishop | Desmond Tutu |
| The minority group that dominated Rwanda | Tutsis |
| The South African president who ended apartheid | F.W. de Klerk |
| South Africa’s apartheid system was designed to: | protect white minority control over the country |
| Which organization led the struggle for majority rule in South Africa? | African National Congress |
| In South Africa after the end of apartheid: | whites retained most of the land |
| What was one cause of ethnic conflicts in African countries? | historic resentments |
| The ethnic conflict in Sudan is between: | the Arab Muslim north and the non-Muslim, non-Arab south |
| Armed groups of citizen soldiers are known as: | militias |
| Rebels, or _____, have targeted foreigners in Iraq | insurgents |
| The longtime leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)? | Yasir Arafat |
| Who was the Israeli leader who agreed to a Palestinian state? | Yitzhak Rabin |
| The Arabic word that means “uprising” | intifada |
| Two groups who have fought over the same land in the Middle East? | Palestinian Arabs and Israelis |
| What is the Oslo Accord? | a 1993 plan to give Palestinians limited self-rule |
| A major stumbling block to Middle East peace | the future of Jerusalem |
| In the 1980s, Iraq fought a long and deadly war with: | Iran |
| What event triggered the 1991 Gulf War? | Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait |
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