Right above Africa (specifically above Egypt).
Underneath the Black and Caspian Seas.
Where is the Middle East located?
100
Extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
What is genocide?
100
There were recent wars in countries of Cambodia, Bosnia, Sudan, and Rwanda were examples of this
What are genocides
100
Considered the main tool of terrorism
What are explosives?
100
To the west of Jordan and Saudi- Arabia.
To the east of Egypt.
South of the Mediterranean Sea.
Where is Israel?
200
A manufactured nation by the UN as a place to put the large numbers of Jewish and other refugees after the world wars.
What is Israel?
200
The careful targeting of a certain group.
How can someone recognize a genocide versus a war?
200
The 3 main causes are Religion, Oil, and Terrorism
What are conflicts in the middle east
200
When people feel they have no other way to have their voice heard, they turn to this.
What is terrorism?
200
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi- Arabia, and Seria
What are the countries that invaded Israel as soon it became a country?
300
Considered the Holiest sight for Christianity, Islamic, and Judaism. Located in the Middle East.
What is Jerusulem?
300
The place that the "Hutus" and "Tutis" fought.
What is Rwanda?
300
The 2 major factions of the Muslim religion which often have bloody skirmishes.
What are the Sunni and the Shia ( or Shiite )
300
Use of violence against people or property to force changes in societies or governments, striking fear into the hearts of people everywhere.
What is terrorism?
300
The place where most of the violent interactions between the two groups take place.
What is the Gaza Strip?
400
He is the founding father of Palestinian nationalism
Who was Yasser Arafat ?
400
Genocide is the mass death of a certain group. War is a battle between anyone.
What is the difference between war and genocide?
400
The U.S. and the U.K. entered Iraq believing they were hiding these.
What are weapons of mass destruction
400
This term was coined by George W. Bush and came to represent all Western action in the middle east.
What is the War on Terror?
400
The war that caused the 600,000 Palestinian people to leave their homes.
What is the 1948-1949 Arab- Israeli War?
500
The two major religions that occupy the Middle East today.
What are Judaism and Islam?
500
A fabricated word made to describe the horrible attrocities of Hitler and the Nazis in World War II.
What is a holocaust?
500
This country experienced a violent "backwards shift" in governments as they moved from democracy to a religious fundamentalist regime to an anti-U.S. totalitarian state.
What is Iran?
500
The event causing thousands of people to go temporary blind and hundreds permanent damage
What is the Subway Sarin incident?
500
The Palestinian people were forced out of their homes. When they came back, the Israeli people wouldn't let them back to their village.
What has been the root if the Arab- Israeli troubles in the Middle East?