European Partitioning
This event caused the Ottoman Empire to collapse.
What is WWI?
The belief that there should be a Jewish state in Palestine.
What is zionism
Conflict between the Shias, Sunnis and Kurds in the Country of Iraq, is the result of ___?
What is European partitioning?
The US invaded this country in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
The two most important rivers in Southwest Asia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
This occurred after World War I and caused different groups of people to be forced to live with one another.
What is European partitioning
Being prejudice against the Jewish people.
What is Anti-Semitism
These two sects of Islam present day fight is over who is going to be in power.
Who are Sunni & Shia?
Iraqi forces invade Kuwait
Operation Desert Storm
Kuwait Oil Fields burned
What is the Persian Guld War?
Fatima and Jaheem speak Arabic and have a common ancestry with her neighbors in Syria. Do they have the same ethnicity or religion?
What is ethnicity (ethnic group)?
The league of nations gave France and Great Britain control of partitioning the Ottoman territory through the ________ agreement.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
Promised support for a the creation of a Jewish state by the British government
What is the Balfour Declaration
This Middle Eastern Ethnic Group is the largest without their own homeland
Who are the Kurds?
Who was the leader of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War and the Invasion of Iraq?
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This country has used advanced technology to build pipelines to carry water throughout the country.
What is Israel?
The British and French made this mistake when creating artificial political borders in SW Asia.
What is they ignored ethnic and religious diversity?
Why did Arab countries invade Israel in 1948?
What is they were upset at the creation of Israel and refused to acknowledge them?
What is the main difference between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
What is who should be the leader after Muhammad?
Saddam Hussein captured, tried, and killed
WMDs
Stop terrorism
What is the Invasion of Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom)?
Since their is a lack of drinkable water in SW Asia, this process is used to remove salts from salt water.
What is desalination?
Regional Conflict between ethnic and religious groups is a result of ____
What are artificial Political borders
This group created the Partition Plan that divided the land of Israel 50/50
What is the United Nations
This is the conflict over the Holy Land that started after the end of WWII. Both sides claim the land as their ancestral homeland.
What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict/ Arab-Israeli conflict?
This was the primary reason for the U.S continued involvement in the Middle East
What is protecting their oil supply?
What do Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have in common? (All 3)
- Monotheistic
- Trace back to Abraham
- Started in SW Asia