Arab Countries
Who was accused of 9/11?
Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda
Who was the president of the USSR in 1945?
Joseph Stalin
What is colonialism?
Colonialism is the practice of extending domination over a territory and its people by another people through political, social, economic, and cultural means.
What is monarchism?
The advocation for a single sovereign ruler (usually a king or/and a queen) that is usually inherited by descendants of the emperor.
Who were the two superpowers competing in the Cold War?
The Soviet Union and The United States of America
What was the name of the sequence of Arab revolutions that took place in 2011
The Arab Spring (hate that name)
Who was the president of the USA in 1945?
Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman
What is a dictatorship?
A dictatorship is a form of government in which a single person or a small group holds absolute or near-absolute political power without constitutional limitations.
What is capitalism?
An ideology that believes in privately owned means of production, land, and businesses rather than it being government owned.
Who was the Egyptian leader that led the Arab-israeli war of 1973?
Anwar Saddat
Who was the first Egyptian president?
Mohamed Naguib
What were the two superpowers competing over?
Territorial expansionism, ideology, space.
What are WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction)
A biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people.
What is Nazisme?
An aryan (white German race) supremacist, racist and totalitarian ideology rooted within a strong sense of nationalism. Mostly known because of Hitler's regime
Who are the top 3 countries responsible for the most amount of wars in the world?
France 1st, United Kingdom 2nd, Russia 3rd.
Which Arab news outlet aired Ghaddafi's death in 2011?
Al Jazeera
What's the name of the crisis in which the world got the closest its ever been to a nuclear war?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What's the difference between a federal and a central government?
Federal: Power is shared, government and state provinces partner up. The national government does not have the liberty to get rid of a state or take away its basic powers. (USA, Canada, Germany, etc)
Central: Power is controlled by one, the national government is the one that makes all the decisions. They can create local councils when in need of aid but they have the freedom to change or destroy them as they please. (Egypt, France, UK, etc)
What is communism?
An ideology that advocates for common ownership of means of production and their distribution. It aims for a classless society.
What is a proxy war?
A war fought between groups or smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from them.
Who was the Palestinian organization responsible for resistance in the 80's? (mainly in Lebanon)
PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)
In 1946 Winston Churchill popularized what term used to describe Soviet relations with Western powers?
Iron Curtain
What is neocolonialism?
When countries use indirect economic and political means to control or influence other countries.
What is anarchism?
An ideology that hopes to abolish all forms of governance, hierarchy, authority and replace them with stateless societies that volunteer cooperatively.
Who were the two major opposing military alliances during World War II (1939–1945)?
Allied powers (JAPAN ITALY GERMANY) and Axis powers (FRANCE, BRITAIN, SOVIET UNION, AMERICA)