Unit 2 - Middle East History

Who created the state of Israel in 1948?

• Minnie Mouse
• United States
• Arabs
• United Nations

When was the Ottoman Empire defeated?

• WWII
• Persian Gulf War
• during the takeover of Constantinople
• WWI

 How did the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I lead to conflict in Southwest Asia?

• Many new countries were created that represented a single ethnic group.
• The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were divided among Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Palestine.
• Several small Arab countries joined together to push for the creation of the State of Israel.
• European politicians didn’t take into account religious and ethnic groups when drawing new boundaries.

Who is Osama Bin-Laden?

• Leader of Isis terrorist group
• Saudi Arabian President
• Leader of Al Qaeda terrorist group
• dictator of Afghanistan

What are refugees? 

• People whose culture is the majority in a location
• People who has been forced to leave their country
• A person who believes their faith is the basis of their way of life. 
• A person who immigrated to a different place to live

What happened to the Ottoman Empire after WWI?

• Most of the people converted to Islam
• It regained control of Southwest Asia
• It gained control of North Africa
• Much of the land was divided among Western powers into mandates

Which leader was responsible for the 9-11 attacks?

• Saddam Hussein
• Yasser Arafat
• Osama bin Laden
• Answar Sadat

Why did the U.S. 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.
• Iraqi troops launched an attack on Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the U.S.
• The U.S. government thought the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, was developing weapons of mass destruction.

Who partitioned (divided) the land after the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 1918?

• Persians
• UN officials
• US President
• Great Britain, France, and other European winners of WWI

TRUE or FALSE: The Kurds received their promised land in the 1920s known as "Kurdistan"

• True
• False