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Beirut is the capital city of this country:
What is Lebanon?
During World War I, Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as this:
What is the Central Powers?
This statement stated Great Britain's support for the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine without violating the rights of Arabs living there.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
Half of Jordan's population today are:
What are Palestinian?
This evil dictator was in power when Germany began to persecute Jewish people.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This was the result of Iran's revolution in 1979.
What is Iran became an Islamic republic, and its economy became weaker?
This mineral helped the Arabian Peninsula to modernize rapidly.
What is oil?
After World War II, Jordan annexed these two areas, which supplied fertile land for growing crops.
What are the West Bank and East Jerusalem?
This destroyed Lebanon's strong economy.
What are the civil wars among Muslim and Christian groups?
This is a strict limit on trade.
What is an embargo?
These two Muslim groups have been in conflict for decades.
What are the Shiites and the Sunnis?
This sea lies between Jordan and Israel, and due to its high mineral content, fish cannot survive here.
What is the Dead Sea?
The Israelis changed the Negev Desert, which was a very negative part of the land they had been issued, by doing this:
What is they used irrigation to turn it into fertile, useable farmland?
This country leads in medical research, sophisticated weaponry, iron space equipment, and electronics.
What is Israel?
This individual was the leader who made Turkey a modern republic.
Who is Kemal Ataturk?
This happened to the Ottoman Empire after World War 1:
What is it was divided into many different countries?
Almost 20% of Israel's population is this:
What is Arab?
Damascus is the capital city of this country:
What is Syria?
This is the process of removing salt from seawater.
What is desalination?
Yemen was the first country in the Arabian Peninsula to do this:
What is allow women to vote?
Two million Muslims make a pilgrimage here -- to the birthplace of Muhammad.
What is the city of Mecca?
Islam's most sacred cities, Mecca and Medina, are located in this country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This organization demanded that Palestine be freed.
What is the Palestine Liberation Organization?
This was a movement for re-establishing an independent Jewish national state in the Middle East.
What is Zionism?
This was the Arab countries reaction to Israel's independence?
What is they attacked Israel?