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Oh Khomeini
Holy water!
Ol' Mesopotamia
Bbrrrrrr
Please no more fighting
100
This belief was started by Gamal Abd al-Nasser. It is the belief that all the Arab nations should unify into one single state.
What is Pan-Arabism?
100
Two rivers that meet to form the Nile River.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
100
This country was involved in a war with the United State twice in the last 30 years.
What is Iraq?
100
This theory stated that if one countries government changed it would influence other countries around it.
What is the domino theory?
100
This country was carved up to create Israel in 1948.
What is Palestine?
200
This government system, is where the government and the church work together, and many laws are based off of religious beliefs.
What is a theocracy?
200
The largest lake in Africa, providing a majority of the Nile’s water.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
This leader was just killed by George Bush Jr. after being found in a hole.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
The US pledged money and weapons to any country fighting communism under this policy.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This war between 1980-89 between two neighboring countries was supported by the US in some form and ended in a stalemate.
What is the Iran-Iraq war?
300
This man was a puppet installed into the Iranian government by the United States in 1953.
What is Reza Shah Pahlavi?
300
A way of producing electricity via water and gravity.
What is hydroelectricity?
300
The Tigris and Euphrates river primarily runs through this country.
What is Iraq?
300
The US policy to restrict the spread of communism.
What is containment?
300
This accord divided up the Ottoman Empire between France and Britain after WWI.
What is the Sykes-Picot Accord?
400
This secret police, was created by Pahlavi and tortured and murdered thousands of people.
What is the SAVAK?
400
A sea that connects to the Atlantic Ocean and is almost completely surrounded by land. The Nile River empties its water here.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
George Bush Jr stated this for the reason for going to war with Iraq in 2002.
What are WMD's or weapons of mass destruction?
400
The US supported this country to build allies within the Middle East and insure that they would maintain their statehood.
What is Israel?
400
This organization implemented an oil embargo against the US because of their support solely of Israel in the October War.
What is OPEC?
500
The US CIA gave money to Iran from illegal sales of weapons to El Salvador in this scandal.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
500
This no longer occurs do to the Aswan Dam. This occurrence Helped farmer’s crops to flourish every year between June and September.
What is floods from the Nile River?
500
The name of the war that was started over Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil disputes was named this...
What is the Persian Gulf War or Desert Storm?
500
The USSR supported Syria and Egypt in this short lived war.
What is the Six-Day War?
500
These negotiations ended the October War.
What are the Camp David Accords?