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Why are many of the current problems in the Middle East connected to the the way the Ottoman Empire was divided?

• Those drawing the boundaries ignored religious and ethnic ties 
• The newly formed countries did not have adequate resources
• Countries did not have strong leadership
• Religious leaders were not allowed power

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

• There was no one else living in the land at the time
• Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering in the Holocaust
• Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a homeland for Jews in Palestine
• All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were being given homelands at the same time

What is Zionism?

• the idea that all religious groups should have their own states
• the plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Palestine equally
• the hope that all governments will be based on on religious principles
• the belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times

What world organization created the new state of Israel in 1948 as a homeland for Jews?

• the United Nations
• the European Union
• the League of Nations
• the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations

How did 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
• The Arab population was largely unaffected by the new state
• They agreed to try to work it out although they were unhappy with the decision

The belief that the Jews would return to their homeland of Israel is known as

• Holocaust
• Anti-Semitism
• Judaism
• Zionism

This term refers to the dividing of countries.

• Fundamentalism
• Liberate
• WMD
• Partition

This term means the hatred of Jews.

• Holocaust
• Anti-Semitism

The two groups who were in conflict of the same land(Israel), were known as

• Shia and Sunni
• Christians and Jews
• Arabs and Christians
• Jews and Arabs

This was one of the main reasons the United States was interested in Southwest Asia.

• Oil
• Land
• diamonds
• coal