The use of violence and intimidation for political aims
100
Israel and Palestine were divided into separate areas of government by the United Nations in 1948, called...
partition
100
Name all 9 countries in Monsoon Asia made entirely of islands
Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, East Timor, Brunei, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore
200
In 2003, US President George W Bush justified the invasion of Iraq by saying they had...
weapons of mass destruction
200
Much of Southwest Asia (Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc) is commonly referred to as...
the "Middle East"
200
In what year did the Communist Party take control of China? In what year did they introduce the one-child policy?
1949, 1980
300
The group that was an Islamic fundamentalist political movement that first rose to power in Afghanistan in 1994
the Taliban
300
What are two reasons that Southwest Asia is known as the "cradle of civilization"?
it was where the first cities were created, it was where agriculture/farming started, and it was where 3 of the major religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) were started
300
The religion the majority of people in Southwest Asia practice is ________ but the world's largest population of this religion is in this country: __________
Islam, Indonesia
400
In the story, Malala witnesses on TV the assassination of Benazhir Butto who was...
Pakistan's first female prime minister
400
Much of the tension between Iran and the United States dates back to two events that happened in Iran in 1979. What were they?
the Iranian Revolution, and the hostage crisis/taking of hostages at the US Embassy (1979-1981)
400
This ethnicity makes up 90% of the population of China.
Han Chinese
500
What was the "Bush Doctrine"?
America would go to war with terrorism making no distinction between the terrorists and the nations that harbored them
500
At the start of the "war and terror" President George W Bush named three countries as the "axis of evil." Name the countries.