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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Give two features of Guerrilla war | Fighters 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 |
| Give two reasons why guerrilla war can defeat a more powerful enemy | The 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 |
| In which decade did the USA fight in Vietnam? | 1960s |
| Two reasons why the Americans got involved in Vietnam | The 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) |
| Name of the Vietnamese fighters determined to spread communism? | Vietcong |
| The Americans dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped during the whole of WW2. True or False? | True |
| What 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 |
| When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? | The USSR invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day 1979 |
| Why did they invade? | There had been a revolution and the new communist government asked the Russians to help get control |
| Muslim 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 |
| There were 400 guerrilla bases in Afghanistan. True or False? | False- there were over 4000 |
| Give two examples of guerrilla tactics in Afghanistan | Sabotage at eg. airports, radio stations, pipelines/ hit and run against soviet troops and supplies/ assassinating government officials and blowing up their buildings |
| What 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 |
| The IRA operated as a guerrilla organisation in mainland Britain from 1970-1998. Name two tactics they used | Blew up crowded pubs in London and other cities/ blew up Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party conference in Brighton 1984/ truck bomb Canary Wharf 1996 |
| In 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 |
| How 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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