Global Studies Non Europe Cold War Vocab Quiz

Shah

title given to king of Iran, especially members of the Pahlavi family

SAVAK

The Shah's infamous police force - formed with US help after 1953 coup

Ayatollah Khomeini

lled the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and ordered the invasion of the US Embassy - was exiled to France and sopke out against Shah

supreme leader

Chief spiritual and political leader of Iran

Arab-Israeli War

war declared right after Israel was established - palestine and a bunch of other countries opp. Israel - despite being outnumbered, Israel took a lot of land and "won"

Nabka

forced exodus of Palestinian people after Israel took a lot of their land

Six Days War

Short war in which Israel took Golan heights from syria, West bank from jordan, and Gaza + Sinai from Egypt, doubling its size

Camp David Accords

A peace treaty brokered by the US between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel in exchange for Sinai back

PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization - goal = to gain back an independent, Palestinian state

Intifada

an uprising - the first was street violence and protests against Israeli control of Palestine - the second was much more violent, employing terrorist strategies like suicide bombing

Oslo Peace Accords

Agreement brokered by US for a cease-fire between Israel and Palestine which determined a way to move forward, giving limited self-governance to palestine

Hamas

a military terrorist group intent on replacing Israel with an Islamic State which came out of Palestine

Al-Qaeda

Terrorist group based in Afghanistan which hates the US because of difference in morals - orchestrated 9/11

9/11

Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Al-Qaeda using hijacked civilian planes

Taliban

Government of Afghanistan, similar principles to Al-Qaeda and provided a safe haven for them

Osama bin Laden

Leader of Al Qaeda, responsible for 9/11 attacks

Saddam Hussein

dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently - refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if they had weapons of mass destruction.

Porfiriato

Period of rule by Porfirio Diaz. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer - brought foreign investment and economic growth

Calles Laws

Instituted harsh limitations on priests with the goal of moving Mexico away from religion and more towards secularism

Cristero War

Struggle in Mexico between the secularists and Catholics

PRI

Institutional Revolutionary Party - had control over Mexico for 70 years, rigged elections so that they were the "only party in town", primary focus = staying in power

Eva Perón

former first lady of Argentina, BELOVED advocate for the poor and women, gaining a lot of influence in a very male-dominated society - nickname = Evita

Los Descamisados

"the shirtless ones" - Argentine poor

Fidel Castro

Communist dictator of Cuba - most important figure in 20th century Cuba

Bay of Pigs Invasion

US backed, CIA trained cubans who fled Castro's rule invaded cuba - were defeated by Castro's troops - huge embarrassment for the US

Embargo

official refusal to trade with another country

Cuban missile crisis

when the soviet union wanted to put missiles in Cuba - problem bc it was only 90 miles from florida