Arab-Israeli Conflicts
What country was created in 1948 as a homeland for Jewish people?
What is Israel?
What is it called when countries buy and sell goods with each other?
What is trade?
What area are the Gulf Wars named after?
What is the Persian Gulf?
What is a leader called who has total control and does not allow people to vote freely?
What is a dictator?
What is it called when people protest to ask for more freedom or a better government?
What is a revolution?
What are the names of the two territories that Israel occupied in 1967 and that still pose a major source of conflict today?
What are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
What organization was created by mainly middle eastern, oil producing countries to regulate, protect, and control oil prices and trade?
What is OPEC?
What country helped lead many countries in both Gulf Wars?
What is the United States?
What group has taken an immense part in the Gaza-Israel war?
What is Hamas?
In what year did the Arab Spring begin?
What is 2010?
What city is religiously significant to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, and is claimed as the capital city of both Israel and Palestine?
What is Jerusalem?
In 1970, why did OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) seize oil shipments to the US?
What is in retaliation for the US' decision to resupply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war negotiations?
What was the goal of the first Gulf War in 1991?
What is, to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait?
What is it called when a group tries to steal control of a country by fighting against the government?
What is a civil war?
What North African country started the Arab Spring due to an incident with a man lighting himself on fire to protest unfair treatment?
What is Tunisia?
What war broke out immediately after the creation of Israel in 1948?
What is the First Arab-Israeli War?
What country in the Middle East has the largest oil reserves?
What is Saudi Arabia?
What was the nickname of the 1991 Gulf War?
What is Operation Desert Storm?
What group took over Afghanistan in the 1990s and enforced strict religious laws?
What is the Taliban?
Why did so many people support the Arab Spring protests?
What is, due to their anger regarding unfair leaders, no free speech, and no jobs?
What was the name of the peace agreement signed in 1979 between Israel and Egypt?
What are the Camp David Accords?
Why is it essential that Middle Eastern oil-producing countries sell their oil?
What is, These countries need the money as insurance to build new and upcoming structures/replacements in case of an oil shortage or a lack of demand in trading?
After Saddam Hussein was removed, what big problem did Iraq face within itself?
What is internal fighting?
What country did Saddam Hussein try to take over in 1990?
What is Kuwait?
What were the results in some countries after the Arab Spring protests?
What is civil war/excess violence instead of peace or democracy?