Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population

The PreWWI British declaration of support for the foundation of a Jewish state in the nation of Palestine.

the main governing body of the United Nations, it has the authority to identify threats to international peace and security and to prescribe the organization's response, including military and/or economic sanctions

1967, Israel attacks Syria Jordan and Eqypt taking out air forces, Israrel wins and gets golan heights from Syria, West Bank from Jordan, and Sinai Peninsula Egypt

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by Iran's Islamic revolution.

1978-1979) a revolution against the shah of Iran led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which led to Islamist theocracy (government by religious leaders)

In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity.

a war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders

Egypt, Jordan, and Syria launched a surprise attack during Yom Kippur on Israel, Israel won. U.S. support for Israel during the war led to OPEC boycotting the U.S., creating an energy crisis.

The first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country, in which Egyptian president Anwar Sadat recognized Israel as a legitimate state and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

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

A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

A declaration adopted by the United Nations to give rights to every human on the planet. These rights include the right to life, political rights, freedom of religion, and economic rights

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites.

A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

Went Panama to arrest Noriega, Tiananmen square. addressed but not drop ties with China, met with Nelson Mandela in South Africa, "Operation restore hope" food to East African Nations, Gulf War:

Star Wars, Iran Contra Affair, The fall of the Berlin Wall

9/11, US invades Afghanistan, USA Patriot Act, invades Iraq

Camp David Accords, Iranian Revolution/Oil Crisis, SALT II, Iranian hostage crisis

Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life.

A prison just outside Baghdad, Iraq, where American guards were photographed during the Iraq War abusing and torturing suspected insurgents.

communist party in Cambodia that imposed a reign of terror on Cambodian citizens