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SW Asia History Adv2
Contributed by: O'Byrne
  • 1. What is Zionism?
A) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
B) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
C) Laws that discriminated against Jews
  • 2. What is anti-Semitism?
A) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
B) Laws that discriminated against Jews
C) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
  • 3. Which of these is an example of anti-Semitism?
A) Jews in Germany had to wear stars to identify them as Jews
B) Palestinians have to carry papers with them in Israel or be arrested
C) Jews of any nationality are guaranteed citizenship in Israel
  • 4. How long has there been anti-Semitism in Europe?
A) A few years
B) Decades
C) Centuries
  • 5. How is the Holocaust related to the founding of modern Israel?
A) People around the world were horrified that Jewish refugees couldn’t go to Palestine
B) Palestinians fleeing WWII in Europe returned home to Palestine
C) European Jews founded Israel in Palestine
  • 6. What was the UN solution to the tension between Jewish settlers and Palestinians?
A) Give Palestine to the Jewish settlers
B) Give Palestine back to the Palestinians
C) Divide Palestine into a Jewish country and a Palestinian country
  • 7. Why were the British hesitant to let so many Jews settle in Palestine?
A) Too many Jewish settlers made Britain’s Arab allies mad
B) The Jews weren’t going to be able to farm
C) They wanted the Jews to return to Europe
  • 8. What was the Palestinian response to huge numbers of Jewish settlers immigrating to Palestine?
A) They all moved out and started a new country
B) They voted to kick the settlers out
C) They attacked the settlers
  • 9. Which form of Islam do Saudi Arabia and Turkey follow?
A) Intifada
B) Shia
C) Sunni
  • 10. Which of these nations is predominantly Shia (or Shiite)?
A) Turkey
B) Iran
C) Iraq
  • 11. What does "marginalized" mean?
A) to treat people as insignificant
B) to treat people as really important
C) to treat people as sort of important
  • 12. Which country did NOT contain part of Kurdistan
A) Turkey
B) Syria
C) Egypt
  • 13. Why did the USA invade Iraq in 1990?
A) To get Iraq out of Kuwait
B) To get Iraq out of Iran
C) To capture control of oil fields
  • 14. Why did Iraq invade its neighbor in 1990?
A) To spread Sunni Islam
B) To capture oil fields
C) To gain access to the Red Sea
  • 15. Why did the USA invade Afghanistan in 2001?
A) Afghanistan owed the US oil
B) Afghanistan invaded Kuwait
C) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Afghanistan
  • 16. What is the Taliban?
A) Terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia
B) Government of Iraq
C) Government of Afghanistan
  • 17. Who was Osama binLaden?
A) Leader of Iraq
B) Leader of PLO
C) Leader of al-Qaeda
  • 18. In 2003, why did the USA invade Iraq?
A) US thought Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction
B) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Iraq
C) Iraq had oil fields that the USA needed
  • 19. Which graph represents Iran?
A) c
B) d
C) a
D) b
  • 20. Which bar represents Egypt?
A) c
B) a
C) d
D) b
  • 21. Which spot on the map best matches the Arab-Israeli conflict?
A) c
B) b
C) d
D) a
  • 22. Which spot on the map best matches the Gulf War?
A) b
B) c
C) a
D) d
  • 23. Which spot on the map best matches the invasion of Afghanistan?
A) b
B) c
C) d
D) a
  • 24. Which spot on the map best matches the Iraq War?
A) d
B) b
C) a
D) c
  • 25. . Choose one of the conflicts and explain how the mistakes made during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire continue to cause conflicts today, using the conflict you chose as an example: Arab-Israeli Conflict; Gulf War; Invasion of Afghanistan; Iraq War
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