Unit 8 Quiz (World History)

South African statesman who was released from a 27 year prison sentence in 1990 to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994

• Nelson Mandela

• George W. Bush

• Al Qaeda

• Arab Spring

Ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 2001 in the former state of Yugoslavia on the Balkan Peninsula

• Yugoslav Wars

• War in Afghanistan

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Six-Day War

idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale

• globalization

• embargo

• desertification

• consumerism

organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum

• OPEC

• ISIS

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• European Union

ban on trade with another country

• embargo

• terrorism

• desertifciation

• globalization

1979 hostage situation involving the American Embassy in Iran during the Iranian Revolution

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Arab Spring

• Yom Kippur War

• Green Revoluion

U.S.-led wars fought in 1991 and 2004 against Iraq and its dictator Saddam Hussein

• Gulf Wars

• War in Afghanistan

• Six-Day War

• Yugoslav Wars

The use of violence or threat of violence in order to spread fear with the ultimate goal of furthering a political, religious, ideological or social objective

• terrorism

• social media

• deforestation

• globalization

U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to capture Osama bin Laden and get rid of Al-Qaeda

• War in Afghanistan

• Arab Spring

• Suez Crisis

• Gulf Wars

international terrorist organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

• ISIS

• OPEC

• Green Revoluion

• Apartheid