The Ottomans were on the losing side of the war, along with Germany and Italy.
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What is Arabs?
This ethnic group is most numerous in Southwest Asia.
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What are the three main religions of Southwest Asia?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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What is oil?
This is the United States main economic interest in Southwest Asia
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What is Palestine?
This group does not recognize Israel's right to exist.
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Who are Britain and France?
These countries drew up the boundaries of the new countries created from the end of the Ottoman Empire
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What is Iran?
The modern country that is home to those who call themselves Persians.
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What is the Torah?
This is the holy writing of Judaism
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What is the United Nations?
The reason that this group had to stop Iraq from taking over Kuwait in 1990 was because they have to intervene whenever any member nation has a conflict with another country.
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What is Gaza Strip?
This country is the site of continual conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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What is the Holocaust?
the murder or millions of European Jews during World War II
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What is Shia Muslim?
This is religion of most Persians.
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What basic belief makes Christianity different from Judaism?
Christians believed Jesus was the Messiah or savior of man.
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What is the Taliban?
This group is a radical group of Muslims who controlled the government of Afghanistan.
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What is an ethnic group?
This is a group of people who share cultural ideas and beliefs that have been a part of their community for generations.
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What is Zionism?
The belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in biblical times
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What is Sunni Muslim?
This is the religion of most Arabs in Southwest Asia.
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What are the Five Pillars?
Five basic obligations that Muslims are supposed to meet in their lives.
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Why the US bombed and invaded Afghanistan in 2001?
The United States believed that this government was offering safety to al-Qaeda, the organization that attacked the US on September 11, 2001.
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What is a religious group?
People who a share a belief system in a god or gods with a specific set of rituals and literature.
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What is Antisemitism?
intense hatred of Jews
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What is Sunni Muslim?
This is the religion of most of the Kurds.
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What issue led to the split between the Sunni and Shia in Islam?
They disagreed over who should lead the Muslim community after the death of Muhammad.
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Why the US went to war against Iraq in 2003?
The US government saw the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat to peace and United States interests in the region.