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Global Conflict Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Bombing against any strategic or tactical target not in direct support of troops
chemical warfare
air strike
civil war
interoperability
2. Current policy of active engagement and reconciliation by the government of S. Korea towards N. Korea
Sunshine Policy
Westphalian Deviance
partisan
guerilla
3. Expulsion - inprisonment - or killing of ethnic minorities by the majority
observer mission
interoperability
ethnic cleansing
Dayton Peace Accords
4. Nickname for a UN peace keeper
blue helmets
armistice
blockade
Zionism
5. Tenative peace agreement signed in 1999 (widely ignored) stopping the war between Congo - Anglola - Namibia - and Zimbabwe vs. Rwanda and Uganda
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
anti-personnel mines
concentration camp
host nation support
6. Capabilities made available to the UN by member states - military - police - specialized personelle or equipment
air strike
guerilla
stand-by forces
Karachi agreement
7. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
Paramilitary
Sunshine Policy
implementation force
rapid reaction force
8. A crime committed during or in connection with war - genocide - ethnic cleansing - or prisoner mistreatment
inter/intra state conflict
Road Map to Middle East Peace
ethnocentrism
war crime
9. Non-'traditional' or not state sponsored - like terrorism
asymmetrical threat
Paramilitary
blockade
blue helmets
10. A volatile region of central Asia - formerly part of the USSR - significant crossroads for world energy from the caspian sea region
interoperability
guerilla
Paramilitary
the Caucasus
11. 700 km frontier separating indian and pakistani forces in kashmir
observer mission
Line of Control in Kashmir
START I and II
Demilitarized Zone
12. (Larkins' definition was 'well - duh?' but i'm taking some liberties here) a war between the United States & capitalism and the USSR & communism - never involving actual - direct violence
Road Map to Middle East Peace
border monitoring
blue helmets
Cold War
13. Ending of hostilities
rapid reaction force
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
armistice
host nation support
14. Strategic arms reduction talks - 1993/4 between USA and Russia to reduce rapid deployment of ICBMs
peacekeeper operation
interoperability
concentration camp
START I and II
15. Name given to NATO led and UN backed rapid deployment forces
war crime
collective security
air strike
rapid reaction force
16. USA backed defensive system designed to protect an area smaller than the entire USA from attack by long range ballistic or nuclear missles
rapid deployment force
Theater Missle Defense
stand-by forces
border monitoring
17. Air landings or drops for the purpose of supply - movement of personnel - evacuation - or recovery
peacekeeper operation
host nation support
chemical warfare
air logistic support
18. Cease fire signed in 1949 between india and pakistan over the states of Kashmir and Jammu
Karachi agreement
armistice
blockade
Demilitarized Zone
19. Air landings or drops for the purpose of supply - movement of personnel - evacuation - or recovery
atrocities
white helmets
air logistic support
interoperability
20. US military concept of combining Navy - Army - airforce - and marine units for a specific mission
Sunshine Policy
joint task force
host nation support
Karachi agreement
21. A short notice contingency force - formed unilaterally or with partners - to be deployed in situations where its military organization - training - equipment - or communications enable it to cope with a variety of situations; humanitarian - disaster
Sunshine Policy
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
rapid deployment force
Paramilitary
22. Kill or injure soldiers - very dangerous to civilians
peacekeeper operation
rapid deployment force
anti-personnel mines
Demilitarized Zone
23. Main organ in the UN responsible for maintaining peace and security - composed of 5 permanent members and 10 rotating members with 2 year terms elected by the Gen. Assembly
Sunshine Policy
Security Council
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
blockade
24. Current policy of active engagement and reconciliation by the government of S. Korea towards N. Korea
Sunshine Policy
Westphalian Deviance
war crime
anti-personnel mines
25. International observers who report on goods and issues between national borders
ethnic cleansing
border monitoring
Security Council
asymmetrical threat
26. War between a government and a faction of the same state - neither clearly recognized as the legitimate government
rapid reaction force
civil war
PLO
Westphalian Deviance
27. Small forces or irregular volunteer troops; usually harass enemy supplies and communications
guerilla
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
PLO
chemical warfare
28. The systematic killing of a whole nation of people
border monitoring
air strike
genocide
anti-personnel mines
29. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
rapid reaction force
ethnocentrism
white helmets
blue helmets
30. Acts of unusual cruelty
asymmetrical threat
concentration camp
interoperability
atrocities
31. Palestani Liberation Organization; formed in 1964 with the purpose of creating a homeland for Palestinians in Israel
START I and II
observer mission
air strike
PLO
32. Ending of hostilities
armistice
Theater Missle Defense
Dayton Peace Accords
war crime
33. Cease fire signed in 1949 between india and pakistan over the states of Kashmir and Jammu
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NATO
buffer zone
Karachi agreement
34. UN sponsored and security council backed operation to create or keep the peace between warring factions
border monitoring
peacekeeper operation
joint task force
ethnic cleansing
35. The systematic killing of a whole nation of people
inter/intra state conflict
genocide
asymmetrical threat
Cold War
36. Ships preventing goods from reaching a port
Demilitarized Zone
guerilla
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
blockade
37. Support by a host nation for UN peacekeeping
Line of Control in Kashmir
joint task force
host nation support
peacekeeper operation
38. Use of toxic chemical compounds - including defoliants and herbicides
observer mission
atrocities
concentration camp
chemical warfare
39. Agreement by a group of nations to defend eachother in case of attack on any member
collective security
joint task force
rapid deployment force
observer mission
40. Bombing against any strategic or tactical target not in direct support of troops
stand-by forces
ethnic cleansing
partisan
air strike
41. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
guerilla
concentration camp
Dayton Peace Accords
collective security
42. Members or guerilla bands or other unofficial lightly armed troops
chemical warfare
partisan
observer mission
Westphalian Deviance
43. A neutral space created by the withdrawal of both hostile parties
Cold War
Theater Missle Defense
buffer zone
partisan
44. Belief in the superiority of one's own culture or ethnic group
biological warfare
ethnocentrism
blockade
Karachi agreement
45. Being similar to a military but unofficial
Demilitarized Zone
border monitoring
air logistic support
Paramilitary
46. A short notice contingency force - formed unilaterally or with partners - to be deployed in situations where its military organization - training - equipment - or communications enable it to cope with a variety of situations; humanitarian - disaster
armistice
rapid deployment force
Paramilitary
white helmets
47. Palestani Liberation Organization; formed in 1964 with the purpose of creating a homeland for Palestinians in Israel
Sunshine Policy
Cold War
anti-personnel mines
PLO
48. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
PLO
concentration camp
air logistic support
interoperability
49. A neutral space created by the withdrawal of both hostile parties
NATO
PLO
armistice
buffer zone
50. Ability of military systems - unites and forces to communicate with other civilian and military systems
Theater Missle Defense
atrocities
Paramilitary
interoperability