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Changing Nature of Warfare: Guerrilla Warfare
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- 1Give two features of Guerrilla warFighters use simple ambush and booby trap tactics/ small local groups get supplies from foreign or external powers/ use local knowledge/ blend in with local people
- 2Give two reasons why guerrilla war can defeat a more powerful enemyThe psychological or mental impact of ambush tactics on the invading soldiers/ inflicting large casualties but over a long period of time/ long term cost to the invading country
- 3In which decade did the USA fight in Vietnam?1960s
- 4Two reasons why the Americans got involved in VietnamThe French could not stop the communist forces taking over in Vietnam/ the USA had promised to stop communism spreading all over the world (containment)/ all the countries in Asia seemed in danger of falling (domino effect)
- 5Name of the Vietnamese fighters determined to spread communism?Vietcong
- 6The Americans dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during the whole of WW2. True or False?True
- 7What was the outcome of the Vietnam war?1) USA withdrew and the communists eventually took over the whole of Vietnam
2) They did not spread communism to the rest of Asia - 8When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?The USSR invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day 1979
- 9Why did they invade?There had been a revolution and the new communist government asked the Russians to help get control
- 10Muslim extremists hated the new communist government. What was the name of their fighting force? Which outside organisation supported them?The Mujahideen
The American CIA with billions of dollars backing - 11There were 400 guerrilla bases in Afghanistan. True or False?False- there were over 4000
- 12Give two examples of guerrilla tactics in AfghanistanSabotage at eg. airports, radio stations, pipelines/ hit and run against soviet troops and supplies/ assassinating government officials and blowing up their buildings
- 13What were the two main outcomes of the Soviet-Afghanistan war?The USSR broke down economically and split up geographically/ it gave Osama Bin Laden recruits for his global terrorism group known as Al-Qaeda
- 14The IRA operated as a guerrilla organisation in mainland Britain from 1970-1998. Name two tactics they usedBlew up crowded pubs in London and other cities/ blew up Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party conference in Brighton 1984/ truck bomb Canary Wharf 1996
- 15In 1972, how did the Palestinian group, "Black September" hurt their hated enemy, Israel?Broke into the Olympic village in Munich, Germany- kidnapped 11 of the Israeli team. Team and terrorists died horribly when the rescue attempt went wrong
- 16How do the Palestinian group "Hamas" operate inside Israel today?Pose as normal travellers, shoppers, passengers and then detonate their suicide bomb for maximum effect
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