When conflict with a foreign nation is used to distract from domestic conditions, usually by uniting citizens in favor of war against another nation.
What is the Rally Effect?
100
These types of alliances usually aim at gaining a BALANCE OF POWER, because if A and B together equal the strength of C, they can defend themselves against C when they join forces.
What is a defensive alliance?
100
In 1920, US Congress voted to abstain from this organization whose original Executive Council included Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and later Germany.
What is the League of Nations?
100
Maoists made concessions after their civil war to accept a semi-democratic electoral system, but they did succeed in accomplishing the elimination of this group from power.
Who are the Nepali Monarchy?
100
Terrorism is both THEATRICAL and __________ in context. However, terrorists' goals are seldom realized and it was seen by revolutionists like Lenin as insufficient for change.
What is POLITICAL?
200
After losing popularity among her people, Margaret Thatcher engaged in submarine warfare against General Belgrano of Argentina in this "rally effect" war.
What is the Falklands/Malvians War of 1982?
200
This organization is seen as a defensive alliance, once protecting the Baltic States from Russian conquest, but as it continues to expand (potentially to Ukraine), some may consider these allies as offensive rather than defensive.
What is NATO?
200
This former Portuguese Prime Minister is next in line behind Ban Ki-moon to be the Secretary General of the UN.
Who is António Guterres?
200
This Northern Ireland Conflict began in the 1970's and despite being considered a conflict between Catholics and Protestants it can be seen as more of a group struggle. This paramilitary organization was committed to the unification of the Republic of Ireland during this conflict and is classified as a terrorist group.
What is IRA (Irish Republican Army)?
200
An instance when terrorism "worked"; even though this country won the Battle of Algiers, Algeria won independence back from them in 1962 after successful guerrilla war fare.
What is France?
300
The negative portrayal of Cubans in newspaper publications, may be greatly contributed to a domestic rivalry between Pulitzer and Hearst. Never the less, this domestic competition stirred up public opinion over this war.
What is the Spanish American War?
300
When smaller states join up with more powerful states in the hopes of sharing in the spoils of a stronger alliances conquest.
What is Bandwagoning?
300
In 2010 this group introduced Cholera into Haiti killing over 3000 people they were there to assist after a devastating earthquake.
Who are UN Peacekeepers?
300
The ETA (seen as a terrorist organization) killed over 800 in Spain and assassinated dictator Francisco Franco's successor, Carrero Blanco as a main player in this secession movement.
What is the Basque conflict?
300
This leader of the JTJ (a jihadist group) correctly guessed that the Shia population would benefit from the U.S. invasion of Iraq and that this would upset the Sunnis in Iraq and in neighboring countries. By 2007, over 5000 civilians died in terrorist attacks in Iraq.
Who is Zarqawi?
400
A war took place in this remote area of Kashmir that left military leader, Pervez Musharraf, in control of a territory that has been fought over for national (Pakistan v. India) and religious (Hinduism and Islam) reasons.
What is Kargil?
400
Kant's vision for Perpetual Peace included: a federation of democracies, world-wide citizenship and peace among leaders. This Union could potentially be the actualization of this dream, if it weren't for nationalized interests in sovereignty and secessions such as "Brexit".
What is European Union?
400
This US Ambassador to the UN called on American leaders not to withdraw from international challenges but rather to speak out against the "tyranny of the U.N.'s 'new majority' " of post-colonial states. He did not think these "third-world" coalitions upheld the same standards of liberal democratization that Western powers did.
Who is Daniel Patrick Moynihan?
400
The UN has estimated that 80,000 to 100,000 people were
killed in Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2006. 75% of the country is Sinhala (Mostly Buddhist) and have been engaged in violent conflict with this separatist group fighting the majority for equal political standing.
Who are the Tamil Tigers?
400
After Zarqawi's death in 2006, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became leader of this group that announced the establishment of a worldwide caliphate Islamic State in 2014.
What is ISIS or ISIL?
500
After democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatamala tried to regulate the labor conditions that would effect the United Fruit Co., The United States' CIA helped implement this military tactic to overthrow the president in the interest of corporate American lobbyists.
What is a Coup d'etat?
500
The US has a military alliance with the Philippines, but this president's recent business visits to China and the fear the US will not come to the aid of the Philippines as promised (credibility) have potentially weekend the alliance.
Who is President Duterete?
500
The U.S., the U.K., Russia, China and France all have veto power in the UN Security Council. As of 1970, this nation has issued the most vetoes usually on issues where it is defending it's ally Israel.
What is the United States?
500
This political leader refused to listen to Barack Obama’s request that he discontinue use of chemical weapons that his government utilized to crack down on civil war combatants and Syria's Arab Spring protestors.
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
500
This is Iraq’s 2nd largest city with a large Sunni population that was captured by IS in June 2014. US, Iraqi and Kurdish groups are still working to recapture it.