Review for Issues Mid-Term
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- Muslims are the vast majority of this group.
- Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds
- The majority of the population in Iraq
- Shiites
- Predominately Arab
- Sunnis and Shiites
- Non Arab
- Kurds
- Live mainly in northern Iraq
- Kurds
- Accused of most insurgency right now
- Sunnis
- Gasses by Saddam Hussein for their resistance
- Kurds
- Controlled the government of Iraq from the 1920s until 2003
- Sunnis
- Is the most supportive right now of democratic election and majority rule
- Shiites
- Wants to be sure that minority right are protected in a new government
- Sunnis, Kurds
- Has had insurgent groups that used violent methods
- Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds
- Cities of Najaf and Karbala are particularly holy to them
- Shiites
- The ethnic group has always wanted but never had their own country
- Kurds
- Dominate the population of southern Iraq
- Shiits
- Turkey and Iran suppress this group as a majority in their countries
- Kurds
- Are majority of KDP and PUK
- Kurds
- Majority of Baath Party and Constitutional Monarchy Movement
- Sunnis
- Dominate a triangular area in central Iraq
- Sunnis
- Why did US supply weapons to assist Saddam's government in Iraq?
- During their war with Iran, so Iran's Islamic fundamentalism wouldn't spread to Iraq
- What did Saddam do in 1980s that damaged the economy of Iraq?
- Went to war with Iran
- Why did US attack Iraq in 1991?
- Iraq invaded Kuwait
- From 1997 to 2003 one issue became the most constentious between Saddam's government and the outside world, esp US. What was the issue?
- Weapons inspection
- The "most wanted man" in Iraq by US, Jordanian, and Sunni leader of insurgents, very violent
- Abu Musab Zarqawi
- Current Prime Minister of Iraq, Shiite, Dawa Party member
- Ibrahim Jafaari
- Shiite religious leader assassinated shortly after the US takeover of Iraq
- Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim
- The commanding general of US occupation forces in Iraq
- John Abizaid
- Former Prime Minister who is attempting now to form a non-sectarian party
- Ayad Allawi
- Iraqi exile once favored by the Pentagon as a leader in Iraq, questionable intelligence he gave the US and financial fraud might hurt his chances
- Ahmad Chalabi
- Shiite leader of insurgents who fought major campaign against US in Najaf this summer
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- Current president, Kurdish leader
- Jalaal Talabani
- Current top Shiite cleric in Iraq
- Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
- Immediately following 2003 wear, what agency did US and its allies create to fun Iraq?
- Coalition Provisional Authority
- This group is 25 Iraqis that make decicions about how Iraq should be run. (2nd)
- Iraqi governing council
- Iraqi government that ran Iraq under temporary constitution (3rd)
- Interim Government
- This government was elected by Iraqis. (4th)
- National Assembly
- Who was at the Camp David Accords?
- Begin(Isreal), Sadat(Egypt), Carter(USA)
- Who was at the Oslo Accords?
- Clinton(USA), Rabin(Israel), Arafat(Palestine)
- Something attached to a bill that has nothing to do with it
- Rider
- Gerrymandering
- shaping congressional districts to favor a party
- 5 jobs of the president
- commander-in-chief, chief legistlator, chief executive, chief diplomat, head of state
- Incumbent
- someone who is already in the office and is running again
- The Vice President now
- Dick Cheney
- Job of the Vice President
- President of the Senate
- President Pro Tempore
- takes over for VP in the senate, Ted Stevens
- Current Prime Minister of India, sikh member of INC
- Manmohan Singh
- what is the BJP
- Hindu Nationalist Party
- What are the three parts in dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict?
- Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights,
- Why is Jerusalem so valuable to both?
- Jewish's temple mount, the wailing wall; Muslim's Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock
- What was the PLO?
- Palestinian Liberation Organization. turned to terrorism to draw attention to their cause
- What is the Hamas and who was the leader?
- palestinian terrorist group, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
- What is the differenence btween the Labor and the Likud party?
- Labor is leftist liberal and wants peace, Likud is right conservatist and is tough on palestine
- What is the Kadima party?
- new party by Ariel Sharon. It is in the middle, not left or right.