The World Wars Era
Zionism and the Mandate for Palestine
The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Iran Through the Coup
Geography
Iran, 1954-2026
100
The Arab leader who was promised control of an independent Arab state by Sir Henry McMahon during WWI
Sharif Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi
100
The one belief that all of the major branches of Zionism had in common during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
The belief that the Jewish People was in danger and in need of redemption
100
The Palestinian term for the 1948 conflict and subsequent mass displacement of Palestinians, literally "Catastrophe"
The Nakba
100
The Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown in the 1953 CIA/MI6-led coup
Mohammed Mossadegh
100
Name this location:
The Suez Canal
100
The Iranian cleric who returned from exile to become Supreme Leader of the country during the 1979 Revolution
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
200
The two mandates that were led by Hashemite monarchs after WWI as part of the "Sharifian Solution"
Jordan and Iraq
200
Name any TWO sources of tension between the Jewish and Arab populations in the Mandate for Palestine
Land ownership, Arab sovereignty, Jewish immigration, British rule, religious differences, the Balfour Declaration in general
200
The 1956 conflict in which Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt, resulting in intervention by both the U.S. and the USSR
The Suez Crisis
200
The two major powers who divided control of Iran amongst themselves as part of their "Great Game" rivalry, including in a 1907 convention
Great Britain and Russia
200
Name ALL of these bodies of water:
Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf
200
The theater in Abadan that was burned in 1978, killing more than 400 people and exacerbating anti-Shah sentiment
Cinema Rex/the Rex Theatre
300
The French mandate which was divided into six smaller states based on ethnicity and sectarian identity in an effort to prevent nationalist resistance
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
300
The year in which the Mandate for Palestine was awarded to Great Britain
1920
300
The three areas that Israel took control over during the 1967 Six Day War
The West Bank (and East Jerusalem), the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
300
The alleged rationale for U.S. intervention in Iranian politics in the 1950s
Stopping the spread of communism into Iran
300
The three states in the Middle East that are not majority-Arab
Iran, Turkey, and Israel
300
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's modernization program, launched in 1963 to westernize Iran
The White Revolution
400
Name all THREE of the major conflicting deals that were made between 1915 and 1917 regarding the distribution of land in the Middle East post-WWI
The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the Balfour Declaration
400
The 1937 British report that called for the partition of Mandatory Palestine
The Peel Commission Report
400
Name the THREE major efforts at achieving a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1973
The Camp David Accords/Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (1978-1979), the Oslo Accords (1993-1995), and the Camp David Summit/Clinton Parameters (2000)
Also the Madrid Conference (1991) and Abraham Accords (2020)
400
The three major concessions that the Qajar Dynasty made to Europeans, inflaming both anti-European and anti-Qajar sentiment in Iran (in 1872, 1890, and 1901)
The Tobacco Concession, the Reuter Concession, and the D'arcy Concession
400
Bosporus/Bosphorus Strait
400
The two Ayatollahs/Supreme Leaders who have led Iran since the death of Khomeini
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei
500
The specific Islamic movement that was the driving ideology of the Al Saud family as it unified the Arabian peninsula (and which was the official doctrine of Saudi Arabia until 2022)
Wahhabism
500
The founder of Revisionist Zionism (the territorial maximalist branch of Zionism) who advocated for the use of force in both Jewish self-defense and expansion
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
500
Name any THREE of the four key final-status issues in Arab-Israeli peace proceedings.
(1) The future of the contested city of Jerusalem
(2) The fate of Palestinian refugees
(3) The borders of a future Palestinian state
(4) The security arrangements between Israel and a Palestinian state
(5)
500
The OSS/CIA officer who led the American efforts to overthrow Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953
Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
500
Name any TEN capital cities of the Middle East
Abu Dhabi, Amman, Ankara, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Jerusalem, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, Sanaa, Tehran
500
Name all of the major allies/militant groups that Iran supported and worked with through 2024
Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and al-Assad/Ba'athist Syria (plus Iraqi militias)