US Involvement in the Middle East

What is the United States' main economic interest in Southwest Asia?

• oil
• tourism
• trade routes
• selling American-made products

Who was president of the United States during the Persian Gulf War?

• George H. W. Bush

• Saddam Hussein

• George W. Bush

• Osama Bin Laden

How did the Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 feel about the creation of the new state of Israel?

• They supported it fully.
• They rejected it as unfair to them.
• They were unaffected by the new state.
• They agreed to work with the Jews even though they didn't like the new state.

When war broke out in Palestine, what countries joined with the Palestinian Arabs to try to stop the creation of the new state of Israel?

• the United States
• neighboring Arab countries
• the major nations of Europe
• the countries belonging to the United Nations

Who are the Taliban?

• group of radical Muslims that controlled the government of Iraq

• the government of Kuwait

• a group of radical Muslims that controlled the government of Afghanistan

• part of the United Nations

Why did the United States bomb and invade Afghanistan in 2001?

• Afghanistan invaded the country of Kuwait and threatened the world's oil supply.
• The UN asked the United States to do so.
• The US thought Afghanistan was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
• The US believed Afghanistan was hiding Al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for 9/11.

Why did the United States go to war against Iraq in 2003?

• Iraq was threatening Afghanistan with nuclear weapons.

• The UN believed Iraq was about to invade Kuwait a second time.

• Iraq troops attacked Saudi Arabia.

• Saddam Hussein was believed to have weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists.

Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create the state of Israel in 1948?

• There was no one else living on the land at that time.
• Many felt the Jews deserved help because they had suffered so much in the Holocaust.
• Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
• All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were being given homelands at the same time.

What was the outcome of the 1948 war between the new state of Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine?

• The conflict ended and all Palestinian Arabs became citizens in the new state of Israel.
• Israel won the war and the new state of Israel was even larger than originally planned.
• Almost no Jewish people were willing to go to Israel because of the country's Arab neighbors.
• The United Nations decided to withdraw the proposal to create a state of Israel because of all the problems it caused in the area.

Why did the United States try to stop Iraq from taking over Kuwait in 1990?

• The United States wanted Iraq's valuable coastline.
• The US was allies with Iran and wanted to help that country.
• Iraq's actions threatened the world's oil supply.
• The United States was helped in order to protect Israel.