Final Exam 2024 Questions

Arab-Israeli Conflicts {Ans: Conflicts that began in 1948 over the land once known as Palestine, now known as Israel; both sides claim ownership of the same land; Arab Palestinians want their own separate country; the Mandate System helped to cause this.}Mandate System {Ans: The plan to allow Britain and France to administer former Ottoman territories after WWI; this is one of the causes of the Arab-Israeli Conflicts}Appeasement {Ans: Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict; giving in to a bully. Example: Munich Pact}Battle of Midway {Ans: 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific}Decolonization {Ans: The collapse of European colonial empires. After WWII, former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence, primarily from Britain and France. This led to many Civil and Proxy Wars.}Proxy Wars of the Cold War {Ans: A war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly. During the Cold War, the US and USSR could not fight eachother directly due to MAD}