Western ideas spread into China after these types of reforms in the 1970s.
What is economic reforms?
100
The exiled leader who led the religious opposition to Western influences in Iran.
Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Komeini?
100
This country wanted access to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan.
What is Russia?
100
The use of violence against people or property to force changes in societies or governments.
What is terrorism?
100
A movement in the 1980s where Palestinians began this "uprising," a campaign of civil disobedience that succeeded in putting international pressure on Israel.
What is intifada?
200
These are the two groups that fought a civil war in China both before and after World War II.
What are the nationalists and Communists?
200
The Palestinian leader who took part in reaching the Oslo peace agreement.
Who is Yasir Arafat?
200
This is the regional name for Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
What is the Transcaucasian Republics?
200
The Iraqi leader that was charged with using chemical weapons in the 1980s.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
Treaties have been made to try to prevent the spread of these three types of weapons.
What is weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? (nuclear, chemical, or biological)
300
A movement to preserve revolutionary Communist values.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
In the 1970s and 1980s the military wing of this group conducted violent campaigns against Israel, which in turn bombed Palestinian towns thought to be the group's strongholds.
What is the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)?
300
This was the year that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
What is 1979?
300
Agents of a terrorist group who move to a country, blend in with their surroundings and the community, and then receive direction to secretly plan and carry out terrorist acts.
What is "sleepers"? (sleeper cell)
300
In recent years, these are the most common motives of terrorist groups.
What is religious and cultural?
400
Students were killed here after protesting the Chinese government's lack of political freedom.
What is Tiananmen Square.
400
Islamic revolutionaries held more than 60 Americans hostage for 444 days in this country.
What is Iran?
400
This is the name of the group that fought against the Soviet-supported government in Afghanistan.
What is the mujahideen?
400
These were the targets attacked on September 11, 2001.
What is the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
400
A department in the United States' government that focuses on coordinating national efforts against terrorism.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
500
The program that Deng Xiaoping embraced and referred to as the "second revolution" included these goals for progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology.
What is the Four Modernizations?
500
The Israeli prime minister who signed the Oslo peace agreement and was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist.
Who was Yitzhak Rabin?
500
This is the group that took control of Afghanistan in 1998.
What is the Taliban?
500
This is the network of terrorists Osama bin Laden used while hiding out in the mountains of Afghanistan.
What is al-Qaeda?
500
A controversial law that allows the government to infringe on people's civil rights.