Middle East Partition
Which empire controlled much of Southwest Asia before WWI?
The Ottoman Empire
What religion has an ancient connection to Israel?
Judaism
What are the two major branches of Islam?
Sunni & Shia
What natural resource is a major U.S. interest in Southwest Asia?
Oil
Which two European countries gained control over several former Ottoman territories after WWI?
Britain & France
Prejudice, hate, and discrimination against Jews
Antisemitism
Sunni and Shia originally disagreed over what?
Leadership after Muhammad
Which country did Iraq invade, starting the Persian Gulf conflict?
Kuwait
A system placing former Ottoman territories under foreign administration, supposedly to prepare them for independence
What was the Mandate System?
Movement for a Jewish homeland
Zionism
Are the Kurds an ethnic or religious group?
Ethnic Group
What terrorist group carried out the 9/11 attacks?
Al-Qaeda
Strong identification with a nation or group and support for its interests or self-rule
What is nationalism?
What event killed approximately six million European Jewish people?
The Holocaust.
What do many Kurdish nationalists want?
Independence and their own country
Which country did the U.S. invade after 9/11?
What is partitioning?
Dividing land into smaller pieces
The UN Partition Plan of 1947 divided up land for in the middle east, what were the states called or who was it for?
Palestine (Muslim/Arab) & Israel (Jewish)
What city is sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims?
Jerusalem
What weapons did the U.S. suspect/assume Iraq had?
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)