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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. Members or guerilla bands or other unofficial lightly armed troops
partisan
Paramilitary
concentration camp
ethnic cleansing
2. Conflict within or between nations
Cold War
atrocities
inter/intra state conflict
joint task force
3. A volatile region of central Asia - formerly part of the USSR - significant crossroads for world energy from the caspian sea region
Sunshine Policy
the Caucasus
ethnic cleansing
Paramilitary
4. Acts of unusual cruelty
Road Map to Middle East Peace
Security Council
atrocities
guerilla
5. 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
Paramilitary
chemical warfare
Security Council
white helmets
6. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
genocide
armistice
war crime
concentration camp
7. Small forces or irregular volunteer troops; usually harass enemy supplies and communications
guerilla
Demilitarized Zone
implementation force
Line of Control in Kashmir
8. Use of toxic chemical compounds - including defoliants and herbicides
concentration camp
border monitoring
rapid deployment force
chemical warfare
9. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
Zionism
air logistic support
Security Council
implementation force
10. North atlantic treaty organization - formed in 1949 by 12 democratic nations to defend eachother if attacked
Line of Control in Kashmir
genocide
air logistic support
NATO
11. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
biological warfare
guerilla
white helmets
buffer zone
12. Support by a host nation for UN peacekeeping
Cold War
peacekeeper operation
Theater Missle Defense
host nation support
13. A crime committed during or in connection with war - genocide - ethnic cleansing - or prisoner mistreatment
Demilitarized Zone
Westphalian Deviance
START I and II
war crime
14. Non-'traditional' or not state sponsored - like terrorism
Line of Control in Kashmir
chemical warfare
atrocities
asymmetrical threat
15. Name given to NATO led and UN backed rapid deployment forces
chemical warfare
Road Map to Middle East Peace
rapid reaction force
chemical warfare
16. Ending of hostilities
Demilitarized Zone
armistice
Karachi agreement
PLO
17. Cease fire signed in 1949 between india and pakistan over the states of Kashmir and Jammu
rapid deployment force
anti-personnel mines
Karachi agreement
atrocities
18. Nickname for a UN peace keeper
war crime
anti-personnel mines
blue helmets
concentration camp
19. Between the forward lines of two hostile parties
Demilitarized Zone
Zionism
rapid deployment force
atrocities
20. Signed in 1970 - was intended to limit the nuclear states to the five security council permanent members
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
rapid reaction force
guerilla
Theater Missle Defense
21. Strategic arms reduction talks - 1993/4 between USA and Russia to reduce rapid deployment of ICBMs
Paramilitary
stand-by forces
Karachi agreement
START I and II
22. Kill or injure soldiers - very dangerous to civilians
anti-personnel mines
Paramilitary
concentration camp
atrocities
23. Internment center for political prisoners and members of minority groups for 'reasons of state security
host nation support
concentration camp
white helmets
Theater Missle Defense
24. Expulsion - inprisonment - or killing of ethnic minorities by the majority
ethnic cleansing
Theater Missle Defense
air logistic support
START I and II
25. Palestani Liberation Organization; formed in 1964 with the purpose of creating a homeland for Palestinians in Israel
guerilla
Sunshine Policy
observer mission
PLO
26. Acts of unusual cruelty
interoperability
genocide
atrocities
host nation support
27. Ability of military systems - unites and forces to communicate with other civilian and military systems
NATO
blockade
interoperability
chemical warfare
28. Small forces or irregular volunteer troops; usually harass enemy supplies and communications
Road Map to Middle East Peace
guerilla
blockade
implementation force
29. 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
blue helmets
rapid deployment force
ethnic cleansing
Sunshine Policy
30. Name given to NATO led and UN backed rapid deployment forces
rapid reaction force
collective security
concentration camp
implementation force
31. UN sponsored international volunteer rapid response teams to provide humanitarian relief to emergencies
Road Map to Middle East Peace
blue helmets
Karachi agreement
white helmets
32. Use of disease-producing agents on plants - animals - or people
biological warfare
peacekeeper operation
air logistic support
ethnocentrism
33. Bombing against any strategic or tactical target not in direct support of troops
air strike
Paramilitary
chemical warfare
anti-personnel mines
34. North atlantic treaty organization - formed in 1949 by 12 democratic nations to defend eachother if attacked
NATO
armistice
ethnic cleansing
asymmetrical threat
35. 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
Westphalian Deviance
guerilla
biological warfare
collective security
36. War between a government and a faction of the same state - neither clearly recognized as the legitimate government
the Caucasus
air logistic support
civil war
the Caucasus
37. UN sponsored and security council backed operation to create or keep the peace between warring factions
peacekeeper operation
stand-by forces
atrocities
Security Council
38. (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
Cold War
asymmetrical threat
PLO
ethnocentrism
39. Current plan to hand over 'land for peace' agreement between Israelis and the Palestinians
air strike
anti-personnel mines
Road Map to Middle East Peace
Paramilitary
40. An international movement for the support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and later for support of Israel
atrocities
guerilla
Zionism
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
41. Tenative peace agreement signed in 1999 (widely ignored) stopping the war between Congo - Anglola - Namibia - and Zimbabwe vs. Rwanda and Uganda
air strike
rapid deployment force
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
42. Yugoslavia: UN supported NATO forces to keep the peace in bosnia
inter/intra state conflict
implementation force
observer mission
war crime
43. Being similar to a military but unofficial
interoperability
the Caucasus
Paramilitary
Zionism
44. Signed in 1970 - was intended to limit the nuclear states to the five security council permanent members
chemical warfare
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
blue helmets
host nation support
45. Non-'traditional' or not state sponsored - like terrorism
blockade
air logistic support
asymmetrical threat
atrocities
46. USA backed defensive system designed to protect an area smaller than the entire USA from attack by long range ballistic or nuclear missles
Theater Missle Defense
border monitoring
inter/intra state conflict
Cold War
47. A crime committed during or in connection with war - genocide - ethnic cleansing - or prisoner mistreatment
chemical warfare
war crime
START I and II
chemical warfare
48. Nickname for a UN peace keeper
blockade
Cold War
blue helmets
war crime
49. Current policy of active engagement and reconciliation by the government of S. Korea towards N. Korea
border monitoring
air logistic support
Sunshine Policy
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
50. Belief in the superiority of one's own culture or ethnic group
Zionism
ethnocentrism
biological warfare
the Caucasus