Judaism & Ethnic Groups
What is anti-semitism?
Large empire that broke up after World War I
What is Ottoman Empire?
Date that terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City
What is September 11, 2001?
United States' main economic interest in Southwest Asia
What is oil?
International movement for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland
What is Zionism?
Reason many countries in the United Nations felt it was right to create the state of Israel
What is the persecution during the Holocaust?
What is Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm)?
United Nations inspection team in Iraq from 1991-1998 had a purpose of finding and destroying...
What are weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)?
During WWII, six million Jews were killed
What is the Holocaust?
A group who was angered because their lands and homes were taken away and given to Jewish people during the creation of the new state of Israel
What are the Arabs living in Palestine?
Problems that new boundaries cause as people found themselves living in newly created countries
Remove Saddam Hussein from power and find any hidden WMDs
Two groups who fight over land and are a major cause of conflict in SW Asia
What are Jews and Arabs?
Country that Suddam Hussein ruled
What is Iraq?
Reason why the U.S. bombed and invaded Afghanistan in 2001
What are the terrorist attacks on WTC and the Pentagon?
The reason Iraq invaded Kuwait
Saddam Hussein (Iraq) wanted control of Kuwait's oil field and access to Persian Gulf
Ethnic group who was forced out and dispersed throughout the mountainous regions of Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, who still hope to have their homeland to this day
What are Kurds?
Countries that took control of Ottoman Empire once it fell
What are Great Britain and France?
Causes of the division of Sunni and Shia Muslim groups
After Muhammad died, the Sunni and Shia disagreed about who should be the next leader. Sunni-vote for next leader; Shia-should be related to Muhummad
1948
What is the year the new state of Israel was created?