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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. 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
partisan
blue helmets
Security Council
Line of Control in Kashmir
2. 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
blockade
Sunshine Policy
Line of Control in Kashmir
rapid deployment force
3. Ability of military systems - unites and forces to communicate with other civilian and military systems
civil war
Security Council
interoperability
white helmets
4. Ships preventing goods from reaching a port
Line of Control in Kashmir
anti-personnel mines
blockade
NATO
5. Air landings or drops for the purpose of supply - movement of personnel - evacuation - or recovery
ethnocentrism
buffer zone
air logistic support
air strike
6. Cease fire signed in 1949 between india and pakistan over the states of Kashmir and Jammu
Demilitarized Zone
observer mission
Karachi agreement
civil war
7. Expulsion - inprisonment - or killing of ethnic minorities by the majority
ethnic cleansing
air logistic support
air strike
Road Map to Middle East Peace
8. Tenative peace agreement signed in 1999 (widely ignored) stopping the war between Congo - Anglola - Namibia - and Zimbabwe vs. Rwanda and Uganda
ethnocentrism
Sunshine Policy
asymmetrical threat
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
9. Ability of military systems - unites and forces to communicate with other civilian and military systems
biological warfare
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
genocide
interoperability
10. Signed in 1970 - was intended to limit the nuclear states to the five security council permanent members
stand-by forces
implementation force
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
white helmets
11. 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
Security Council
Demilitarized Zone
civil war
biological warfare
12. Conflict within or between nations
Cold War
inter/intra state conflict
war crime
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
13. Strategic arms reduction talks - 1993/4 between USA and Russia to reduce rapid deployment of ICBMs
Cold War
Demilitarized Zone
START I and II
blue helmets
14. Bombing against any strategic or tactical target not in direct support of troops
atrocities
air strike
Road Map to Middle East Peace
border monitoring
15. (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
Karachi agreement
Cold War
blockade
stand-by forces
16. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
interoperability
joint task force
white helmets
armistice
17. 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
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Dayton Peace Accords
border monitoring
rapid deployment force
18. Use of disease-producing agents on plants - animals - or people
air strike
armistice
Dayton Peace Accords
biological warfare
19. 700 km frontier separating indian and pakistani forces in kashmir
concentration camp
Security Council
Line of Control in Kashmir
ethnocentrism
20. Being similar to a military but unofficial
Security Council
Paramilitary
observer mission
peacekeeper operation
21. International observers who report on goods and issues between national borders
blockade
Sunshine Policy
border monitoring
Paramilitary
22. Unarmed military officers to monitor cease fire agreements
genocide
blue helmets
ethnocentrism
observer mission
23. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
implementation force
rapid deployment force
guerilla
collective security
24. An international movement for the support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and later for support of Israel
air strike
Security Council
Zionism
Karachi agreement
25. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
air logistic support
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
white helmets
implementation force
26. US military concept of combining Navy - Army - airforce - and marine units for a specific mission
Line of Control in Kashmir
armistice
rapid reaction force
joint task force
27. Use of toxic chemical compounds - including defoliants and herbicides
Sunshine Policy
chemical warfare
peacekeeper operation
Zionism
28. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
civil war
concentration camp
anti-personnel mines
white helmets
29. Ending of hostilities
Karachi agreement
armistice
the Caucasus
war crime
30. The systematic killing of a whole nation of people
genocide
anti-personnel mines
white helmets
interoperability
31. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
war crime
air logistic support
white helmets
host nation support
32. Agreement by a group of nations to defend eachother in case of attack on any member
inter/intra state conflict
Theater Missle Defense
collective security
Westphalian Deviance
33. Acts of unusual cruelty
Dayton Peace Accords
biological warfare
atrocities
PLO
34. Use of toxic chemical compounds - including defoliants and herbicides
chemical warfare
Security Council
stand-by forces
Line of Control in Kashmir
35. Members or guerilla bands or other unofficial lightly armed troops
genocide
partisan
interoperability
air logistic support
36. Small forces or irregular volunteer troops; usually harass enemy supplies and communications
implementation force
guerilla
joint task force
Westphalian Deviance
37. North atlantic treaty organization - formed in 1949 by 12 democratic nations to defend eachother if attacked
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NATO
blockade
civil war
38. Kill or injure soldiers - very dangerous to civilians
concentration camp
joint task force
white helmets
anti-personnel mines
39. A volatile region of central Asia - formerly part of the USSR - significant crossroads for world energy from the caspian sea region
the Caucasus
chemical warfare
anti-personnel mines
Cold War
40. Unarmed military officers to monitor cease fire agreements
observer mission
guerilla
genocide
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
41. Current policy of active engagement and reconciliation by the government of S. Korea towards N. Korea
Sunshine Policy
Line of Control in Kashmir
guerilla
Westphalian Deviance
42. Air landings or drops for the purpose of supply - movement of personnel - evacuation - or recovery
collective security
blue helmets
peacekeeper operation
air logistic support
43. Capabilities made available to the UN by member states - military - police - specialized personelle or equipment
Demilitarized Zone
joint task force
stand-by forces
concentration camp
44. Nickname for a UN peace keeper
border monitoring
host nation support
blue helmets
Cold War
45. A crime committed during or in connection with war - genocide - ethnic cleansing - or prisoner mistreatment
war crime
rapid reaction force
Paramilitary
genocide
46. Agreement by a group of nations to defend eachother in case of attack on any member
collective security
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
rapid reaction force
NATO
47. Members or guerilla bands or other unofficial lightly armed troops
Theater Missle Defense
partisan
chemical warfare
Paramilitary
48. Ships preventing goods from reaching a port
blockade
Line of Control in Kashmir
ethnocentrism
ethnic cleansing
49. Between the forward lines of two hostile parties
Paramilitary
Demilitarized Zone
inter/intra state conflict
armistice
50. Bombing against any strategic or tactical target not in direct support of troops
air strike
border monitoring
inter/intra state conflict
Westphalian Deviance