Revolts & Resistance
This 1987 uprising, sparked by a traffic incident, began a movement of mass civil disobedience in Gaza and the West Bank.
What is the First Intifada?
This sect of Islam believes that community consensus should decide leadership after Muhammad's death.
What is Sunni Islam?
This 2010 event was sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi and led to protests across multiple Arab nations.
What is the Arab Spring?
Which country was behind the 1953 operation that overthrew Iran's Prime Minister, paving the way for Shah Pahlavi's rule.
What is the United States?
This Palestinian political party rose in the 1960s and was expelled from Jordan after Black September.
What is the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)?
This type of Islamic dress covers the face except for the eyes and is worn in countries like Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
What is the niqab?
This 1979 crisis began when Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy, believing the U.S. was plotting to reinstall the Shah.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This oil company, partly owned by the U.S., shared massive profits with the Saudi monarchy starting in the 1940s.
What is ARAMCO?
These camps, set up by Britain on an island in the Mediterranean, housed Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine.
What are the Cyprus internment camps?
This religious group is largely given the stereotype of being less sophisticated and less educated?
Who are Shia Muslims?
This militant group emerged in Lebanon during the civil war and remains a political force today, aligned with Iran.
What is Hezbollah?
This Cold War power backed several Arab regimes, including Egypt and Syria, to counter U.S. influence.
What is the Soviet Union?
This president supported the creation of Israel in part to boost reelection chances in 1948.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
When the French created the Lebanese borders out of the previous territory that included Syria, which religion was the main one in Lebanon?
What is Christianity?
This uprising in Syria escalated into a brutal civil war with global intervention.
What is the Syrian Civil War?
This Cold War-era conflict saw the U.S. and USSR both pressure Israel, Britain, and France to withdraw after invading Egypt.
What is the Suez Crisis?
This militant group carried out the 9/11 attacks, leading to decades of U.S. military intervention.
Who is Al-Qaeda?
Name one of the two countries that Zionists discussed colonizing other than Palestine.
What are Argentina/Uganda?