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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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1. Small forces or irregular volunteer troops; usually harass enemy supplies and communications
anti-personnel mines
guerilla
inter/intra state conflict
blue helmets
2. Acts of unusual cruelty
ethnocentrism
atrocities
Zionism
rapid deployment force
3. 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
Westphalian Deviance
asymmetrical threat
Security Council
Karachi agreement
4. UN sponsored and security council backed operation to create or keep the peace between warring factions
white helmets
peacekeeper operation
rapid deployment force
concentration camp
5. Air landings or drops for the purpose of supply - movement of personnel - evacuation - or recovery
border monitoring
rapid reaction force
Security Council
air logistic support
6. War between a government and a faction of the same state - neither clearly recognized as the legitimate government
concentration camp
civil war
chemical warfare
ethnocentrism
7. Agreement by a group of nations to defend eachother in case of attack on any member
collective security
rapid deployment force
joint task force
genocide
8. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
war crime
Paramilitary
implementation force
Cold War
9. Kill or injure soldiers - very dangerous to civilians
chemical warfare
anti-personnel mines
concentration camp
Line of Control in Kashmir
10. Political theory named after the treaty that ended the 30 years war - provided a framework for -an relations for over 2 centuries - idea that soverign states don't get involved with the internal affairs of others
air strike
border monitoring
interoperability
Westphalian Deviance
11. Kill or injure soldiers - very dangerous to civilians
anti-personnel mines
Theater Missle Defense
Line of Control in Kashmir
Road Map to Middle East Peace
12. Agreement by a group of nations to defend eachother in case of attack on any member
border monitoring
collective security
blockade
guerilla
13. US military concept of combining Navy - Army - airforce - and marine units for a specific mission
joint task force
ethnic cleansing
air logistic support
civil war
14. Between the forward lines of two hostile parties
border monitoring
guerilla
Demilitarized Zone
PLO
15. An international movement for the support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and later for support of Israel
border monitoring
Zionism
ethnocentrism
asymmetrical threat
16. 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
collective security
ethnocentrism
Security Council
asymmetrical threat
17. Acts of unusual cruelty
concentration camp
atrocities
Security Council
genocide
18. Expulsion - inprisonment - or killing of ethnic minorities by the majority
collective security
guerilla
ethnic cleansing
white helmets
19. Use of toxic chemical compounds - including defoliants and herbicides
blockade
chemical warfare
Cold War
concentration camp
20. Current plan to hand over 'land for peace' agreement between Israelis and the Palestinians
Road Map to Middle East Peace
armistice
Dayton Peace Accords
genocide
21. A volatile region of central Asia - formerly part of the USSR - significant crossroads for world energy from the caspian sea region
the Caucasus
rapid deployment force
genocide
PLO
22. A neutral space created by the withdrawal of both hostile parties
buffer zone
rapid reaction force
PLO
biological warfare
23. Current policy of active engagement and reconciliation by the government of S. Korea towards N. Korea
Sunshine Policy
armistice
atrocities
blue helmets
24. International observers who report on goods and issues between national borders
border monitoring
Demilitarized Zone
collective security
rapid reaction force
25. US military concept of combining Navy - Army - airforce - and marine units for a specific mission
concentration camp
joint task force
civil war
Demilitarized Zone
26. Tenative peace agreement signed in 1999 (widely ignored) stopping the war between Congo - Anglola - Namibia - and Zimbabwe vs. Rwanda and Uganda
Theater Missle Defense
Cold War
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
inter/intra state conflict
27. USA backed defensive system designed to protect an area smaller than the entire USA from attack by long range ballistic or nuclear missles
stand-by forces
blockade
Theater Missle Defense
chemical warfare
28. Support by a host nation for UN peacekeeping
host nation support
implementation force
START I and II
biological warfare
29. Ships preventing goods from reaching a port
atrocities
interoperability
blockade
host nation support
30. Ability of military systems - unites and forces to communicate with other civilian and military systems
border monitoring
stand-by forces
interoperability
asymmetrical threat
31. Political theory named after the treaty that ended the 30 years war - provided a framework for -an relations for over 2 centuries - idea that soverign states don't get involved with the internal affairs of others
Demilitarized Zone
chemical warfare
biological warfare
Westphalian Deviance
32. Non-'traditional' or not state sponsored - like terrorism
asymmetrical threat
implementation force
collective security
chemical warfare
33. Capabilities made available to the UN by member states - military - police - specialized personelle or equipment
concentration camp
Line of Control in Kashmir
ethnocentrism
stand-by forces
34. A neutral space created by the withdrawal of both hostile parties
buffer zone
Road Map to Middle East Peace
anti-personnel mines
Road Map to Middle East Peace
35. International observers who report on goods and issues between national borders
blue helmets
implementation force
concentration camp
border monitoring
36. Unarmed military officers to monitor cease fire agreements
observer mission
Line of Control in Kashmir
stand-by forces
blockade
37. 1995 peace agreement ending the war over the former Yugoslavia - between Croatia - Bosnia-Herzegovina - and Serbia
armistice
blue helmets
Dayton Peace Accords
ethnic cleansing
38. An international movement for the support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and later for support of Israel
observer mission
Zionism
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Demilitarized Zone
39. Cease fire signed in 1949 between india and pakistan over the states of Kashmir and Jammu
blue helmets
Karachi agreement
Theater Missle Defense
air logistic support
40. Tenative peace agreement signed in 1999 (widely ignored) stopping the war between Congo - Anglola - Namibia - and Zimbabwe vs. Rwanda and Uganda
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
partisan
Demilitarized Zone
START I and II
41. 1995 peace agreement ending the war over the former Yugoslavia - between Croatia - Bosnia-Herzegovina - and Serbia
Cold War
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Dayton Peace Accords
white helmets
42. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
interoperability
chemical warfare
Dayton Peace Accords
implementation force
43. (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
Theater Missle Defense
Demilitarized Zone
implementation force
Cold War
44. Being similar to a military but unofficial
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
blockade
Paramilitary
PLO
45. Strategic arms reduction talks - 1993/4 between USA and Russia to reduce rapid deployment of ICBMs
host nation support
START I and II
interoperability
implementation force
46. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
white helmets
buffer zone
Security Council
inter/intra state conflict
47. Belief in the superiority of one's own culture or ethnic group
rapid deployment force
border monitoring
Dayton Peace Accords
ethnocentrism
48. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
war crime
concentration camp
Zionism
observer mission
49. The systematic killing of a whole nation of people
genocide
partisan
Sunshine Policy
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
50. 700 km frontier separating indian and pakistani forces in kashmir
Demilitarized Zone
Theater Missle Defense
host nation support
Line of Control in Kashmir