Partitioning
This empire controlled much of Southwest Asia before and during World War 1.
Ottoman Empire
Britain expressed support for establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine in what announcement?
Balfour Declaration
What ethnic group is spread across several countries in Southwest Asia and often lives in the mountains?
Kurds
What are the two major branches of Islam?
Sunni and Shia
Iran invaded what country in 1990, triggering and internation response?
Kuwait
What was the secret agreement associated with British and French plans to partition the area known as Greater Syria (part of the Ottoman Empire).
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Britain controlled Palestine after World War I. Did Jewish immigration increase or decrease, while Arab resistance also grew?
increased
True or False? The Kurds were eventually given control of their own state.
False
The succession dispute was a disagreement over who should lead Islam after ____________ died.
Muhammad
Sometimes call Operation Desert Storm, the United States partiticipated in what war to protect Kuwait's oil resources?
Persian Gulf War
After World War I, the _______ System placed former Ottoman territories under European control.
Mandate System
What do we call the persecution and murder of millions of Jews during World War II that increased support for a Jewish homeland?
Holocaust
_________ partitioning ignored cultural boundaries, such as the need for home for the Kurdish people who have their own customs and language.
European
Sunni Muslims believe _________ should lead Islam after the death of Muhammed.
Abu Bakr
After the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001, the United States launched a military invasion of what country?
Afghanistan
_________ borders often ignored ethnic, religious, tribal, traditional, and cultural divisions. This contributed to later conflict.
Artificial borders
Dur the UN _______ Plan of 1947, the United Nations proposed separate Arab and Jewish states. Arab opposition to the plan contributed to war and continuing conflict.
Partition
What do we call the desire for an independent Kurdish state?
Kurdish Nationalism
Shia Muslims believed _______ should lead Islam after Muhammad's death because he was family.
Ali
Weapons of _____ _______ (WMD's for short), were a factor in the 2003 Iraq War.
Mass Destruction
After World War I, this conference allowed the victorious powers to divide the Ottoman lands with little regard for traditional and cultural boundaries.
Paris Peace Conference
_________ became an independent state at the end of the British Mandate
Israel
The region we call the Middle East is geographically located in ___________ Asia.
Southwest
Which branch of Islam follows what they call the "Rightly Guided Caliphs" and makes up 85-90% of Muslims worldwide?
Sunni Islam
The leader of Iraq when the United States invaded in 2003 was ______ ________.
Saddam Hussein