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88 Cards in this Set
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Diaspora
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Spread of the Jewish Community
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Pogrom
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A riot directed at a certain ethnic group
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Jewish Emancipation
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Freeing the Jews in Europe
Europe first country to give them rights |
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Dreyfus Affair
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High ranking Jewish commander wrongfully accused of being a German informant and executed.
Jews realized they would not be treated equally |
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Anti-Semitism
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A dislike for Jews
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Aliyah
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Wave of Jewish immigrants
happened 5 times |
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Theodor Herzl
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Father of political Zionism, founder of world zionist organizations
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Zionism
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Jewish Movement
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Ottoman Empire
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Collapsed in 1922 during WWI
based in Turkey |
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Lawrence of Arabia
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British soldier working with the Arabs that faced a conflict of intereste in helping the Brits vs. the Arabs
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
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Secret agreement between France and Britain to divided up the middle east for themselves
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Balfour Declaration
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Simply stated that the British favored Palestine as a national home for the Jews(Did not declare it as a Jewish State)
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Palestinian Mandate
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When Palestine got split up by the British and French
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Trans-Jordan
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Area that was essentialy drawn up one afternoon with a pen as a result of the Palestinian Mandate
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Churchill White Paper
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1932 when Churchill said that the Jews would have a home in Palestine, but Palestine would not be an exclusive Jewish State, Jews end up being restricted to West Bank of Jordan River
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Hagana(h)
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Jewish Militia
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Wailing Wall Riot
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Caused by benches being set up by Wailing Wall, resulted in deaths to both Arabs and Jews
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Peel Commission
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Stated that Palestine should be partitioned by ethnic population(Arabs not happy)
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Great Arab Revolt
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Lead by Hussain as an attempt to break away from the Ottoman Empire and create a unified state
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Lord Moyne
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British Politician who was assassinated by Stern Gang
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King David Hotel Bombing
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Irgun -division of Hagana- bombed hotel with british officials
First act of Terrorism |
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UN Partition Plan
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A plan that made Jerusalem a national territory
Not laws so not completely followed |
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Irgun
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Israeli Defense Force, attacked King David Hotel
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Stern Gang
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Irgun group named after its creator Avaham Stern, assassinated Lord Moyne
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Dayr Yassin
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1948
the Irgun and Stern Gang massacred a Zionist town |
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Israel's Declaration of Independence
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May 14, 1948
Recognized by US and Britain |
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David Ben Gurion
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First Prime Minister of Israel
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1948 War
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5 Arab states attack Israel and all lose due to lack of unity, organization, and moral
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Law of Return
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Invitation for all Jews to return to Israel
Did not allow for Palestinians to return to land claimed during war in 1948 |
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Gamal Nassar
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Participated in free officers movement in 1952 which overthrew monarchy
Leader of Egypt from '54 to '70 was determined to end British Military presence |
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1956 Suez Crisis
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Brit/Fran convince Israel to attack Egypt(secretly), then Brit/Fran step in to protect the canal
US stepped in to stop it |
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PLO
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Palestine Liberation Organization
founded by Nassar then lead by Arafat in '69 |
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1967 War
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six day war
Israel crushes Egypt Israel appears invincible Israel not able to control such large territory viewed as agressor |
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UN Resolution 242
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Vague Document
told Israel to give back land they didn't really give it all back |
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War of Attrition
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low intensity battle between Egypt and Israel
goal to keep super powers involved |
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Y. Arafat
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Leader of PLO
Founded Fatah gave peace speech at UN |
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Fatah
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Guerilla group formed by Arafat
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1970 Jordanian War with the PLO
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instigation: People taken hostage at hotel, 3 airplanes hijaced, assassination attempts of King Hussein
War pushed PLO leadership out of Jordan and into Lebanon |
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Black September
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Militant group led by Arafat
Took Olympic players hostage |
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1972 Olympic Games
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11 Israeli athletes killed
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1973 War
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Surprise attack by Egypt/Syria on Yom Kuppor
Many casualties Would have lost had US not stepped in |
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OPEC
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Would not sell oil to US for intervention in 1973 War |
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A. Sadat
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Leader of Egypt after Nasser from '70 - '81
created peace with Israel |
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M. Begin
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Prime Minister of Israel
made peace treaty with Israel/Egypt |
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Likud Party
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did not want to settle with Palestine
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Labor Party
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wanted to settle with Palestine
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J. Carter
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Mediator in Camp David Accords
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Camp David Accords
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Sadat and Begin accomplish peace
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Raid on Entebbe
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mission to rescue hostages from an airport
hijacked by PLO |
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Israel's invasion of Lebanon 1982
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went in to clear out PLO
warned not to enter more than 40km tried to take over Lebanon Zionist lost a lot of support as result |
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First Intifada
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Israel military truck accident
spontanious uprising of riots |
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Oslo Accords
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1993 temporary peace between Israel and Palestine
Palestin withdrew |
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B. Netanyahu
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P.M. of Israel after Rabin assassinated
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Temple Mount
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Most religious location in Judaism
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A. Sharon
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Israel P.M. 2001-2006
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Second Infitada
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triggered by Sharon visiting Temple Mount
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Security Wall
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reserected around borders of Jewish state
"Berlin Wall" ? |
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Definition of Politics
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Authoritative allocation of values, human interactions involving power and conflict
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Comparative Politics
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comparing two countries at the state level
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Three Theories of international Politics
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1. Conservative/Realism
2. Liberal/Idealism 3. Radical/Revolutionary |
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Classic Realism
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conflict in the world due to human nature to be self centered
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Hard Power
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Always ready for war
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Zero-Sum
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Winners and losers
only so much wealth in the world |
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Neorealism
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focus on flaws in the structure of the system as causes, not human nature
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Conservative/Realism view of Globalization
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against globalization
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Idealism/liberal view
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optimistic world view, can change system
try to avoid war woodrow wilson big supporter |
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Soft Power
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avoid war
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Pluralist
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not state centered, pro globalization
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Democratic Peace Theory
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Democracies are slow to go to war with on another
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Liberal/Realist view on Globalization
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Think globalization is good
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Revolution/Radical View
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Economic critique of the other two(liberal/conservative)
focus on working class against globalization karl Marx big supporter |
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State System
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Used since Treaty of Westphalia
before that used Empires |
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Number of states
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192
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Largest 5 countries by Population
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1. China
2. India 3. US 4. Indonesia 5. Brazil |
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G-2(0)
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US and China
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3 levels of Analysis
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Individual Level
State/Domestic Level System/Interstate Level |
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Five Wars of Globalization
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War on Drugs, Money Laundering, Human Trafficing, Intelectual Property, illegal sale of arms
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Drug Kingpin Strategy
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Take down kingpin to help stop trafficking
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Pablo Escobar
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kingpin for cocain
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Small arms and nuclear proliferation
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US 38% of total sales
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Intelectual Property
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legal entitlements to information, ideas, and discoveries
patents, copyrights, trademark |
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Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIP)
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IP rights that extend over boarders
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Biopiracy
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Western Corps take patents on indigenous plants, ideas, etc.
profits typically not shared with country |
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People and Smuggling rings
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trades of people across international borders to non official entry point
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Money Laundering
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dirty money>overseas banks> back to US bank> clean money
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Interpol/sovereignty Issues
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China and US dependancy
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Hussein MacMahon Correspondence
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1915 -1916
Arabs agreed to fight against Palestines on the side of the British |
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International Relations
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Study of foreign affairs among states within international system
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