What three continents make up the region of the Middle East?
What is Europe, Asia, and Africa?
100
Actions taken by the governments of the international community to punish a country for unacceptable behavior.
What are sanctions?
100
Which two ethnic groups are involved in this conflict?
What is Arabs and Jews?
100
In what regions did the Arab Spring occur?
What is the Middle East and North Africa?
100
What are the 3 main religions of the Middle East and what are 3 similarities they share?
What is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism? Similarities: Jerusalem is holy city, all born in Middle East, monotheistic, good deeds=salvation, all have forms of holy text
200
What ethnic group makes up the vast majority of the Middle Eastern population?
BONUS 100 pts/each: What 3 countries is this group not the majority of?
What is Arabs?
BONUS: What is Israel, Turkey, and Iran?
200
Prejudice or discrimination towards Jews.
What is Anti-Semitism?
200
Why did the UN choose Palestine for a homeland for Jews after the Holocaust?
What is it is the historic homeland of Jewish people?
200
What are the reasons or causes of the Arab Spring? Give me 2
What is Dictatorships, Sectarianism, Human rights violations, Government corruption, Economic downfall, Unemployment, Extreme poverty?
200
What is the Iran Nuclear Deal and why is it in place?
BONUS 100: Who was the president of Iran from 2005-2013?
What is a plan to stop the formation of nuclear weapons and lift economic sanctions from Iran.
BONUS: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
300
What are the three main religions in the Middle East?
What is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism?
300
An oil cartel of many of the world's top oil producing countries.
What is OPEC?
BONUS 100: What is the purpose of OPEC?
300
In one word, what can we say this conflict is over?
What is land?
300
What are three methods of protest in Arab Spring? (100 pts/each)
What were the reasons the Iranian Revolution and what was the major outcome?
What is desire for government corruption, desire for economic reinvestment in country, desire for democracy, violations of basic human rights. Outcome: the Shah fled Iran.
400
What areas of the Middle East are the most densely populated?
What are along bodies or water and areas of milder climate?
400
A movement founded to promote the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine.
What is Zionism
400
What are 2 current issues in this conflict? Specifically in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
What is Israeli settlements, security checkpoints, security checkpoints, movement restrictions, security & terrorism?
400
Who was Libya's centuries-long dictator when Arab Spring began?
Who is Muammar Gaddafi?
400
Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990 (1 reason) and who was the leader?
What is …
1. they were oil rich and Iraq wanted control over that oil, 2. Iraq blamed them for lowering the price of oil and for their financial problem
3. Iraq saw Kuwait as a country too influenced by the West
Leader: Saddam Hussein
500
What are the two sects of Islam and how do they differ?
What is Shiite and Sunni? They differ in the belief of who should take over leadership of the Muslim nation after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
500
This event followed the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and is known as the great exodus.
What is Nakba
500
What were the affects of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 for Palestinians?
What is losing 3/4 of their land?
500
How has Arab Spring protest outcomes differed in Tunisia and Egypt compared to Libya?
What is What is Tunisia and Egypt's outcomes have lead to a revolution, whereas Libya's has lead to a Civil War?
500
Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003? Give me 3 reasons IMPORTANT: The attacks of 9/11 is not a reason
What is:
-Fear of WMDs- Weapons of Mass Destruction.
-Saddam did not obey the No-Fly Zone limitations
-Saddam was a “savage dictator"
-Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people
-Stop Saddam before he launched WMDs on Israel, Europe
or even US