The Story of Tunisia
What event triggered the Jasmine Revolution?
Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest the treatment he received from the police.
Who oversaw the Suez Canal project?
Ferdinand de Lesseps
The Berbers made high quality carpets, but their main economic activity was what?
Piracy that preyed on sea traffic
What did Winston Churchill called the “soft underbelly” of Europe?
Sicily and Italy
What is the book that Muslims believe is the compilation of the thoughts of Allah as communicated by Muhammad and others?
Quran
Two ranges in what North African mountains cross in Tunisia?
Atlas Mountains
What two continents are separated by the Suez Canal?
Africa and Asia
The underwater ridge between North Africa and what country divides the Mediterranean into the western and eastern parts?
Sicily
What did Churchill call the “hinge of fate” in WWII?
Roosevelt’s offer of help in the Allied effort to control northern Africa
Muhammad believed that Allah gave him permission to use force to convert unbelievers. He called this effort or persuasion ____ or holy war.
Jihad
What European country declared Tunisia to be a protectorate in 1881?
France
What two seas does the Suez Canal connect?
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
The term Berber is a variation of what term?
Barbary
The first time an African army defeated a European colonial power was when Italy was defeated by which country in the Battle of Adowa?
Ethiopia
Muslims believe that the spirit beings that exist below the level of angels and devils are what?
jinn
What three cultures intersect in Tunisia?
African, European, and Islamic
What years did the construction of the Suez Canal begin and end?
1859 and 1869
What put an end to the hundreds of years of piracy?
The French conquest of Algeria in 1830
Who led Operation Torch, the Allied invasion in Morocco and Algeria?
General Dwight Eisenhower
What is the Muslim legal system that applies the teachings of their holy book to society?
Shari’a law
In what other three countries did protests result in the removal or deaths of the head of the government?
Egypt, Yemen, Libya
What project did the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser say he’d use the tolls for after seizing the canal in 1956?
to pay for the Aswan High Dam
Sing the verse of the Marine hymn that is referred to in this chapter
“…to the shores of Tripoli”
Where did the first direct confrontation between German and American forces in the war take place?
Either answer is correct:
Kasserine Pass
a gap in the Atlas Mountains in Tunisia
What are the two largest groups in Islam?
Sunnis, Shi’ites