ME History Review

A time when over six million Jews were killed in concentration camps set up by Germany under Adolf Hitler's orders.

• anti-Semitism

• Holocaust

• nationalism

• Zionism

To have a strong pride in your nation or ethnic groups; the loyalty to a group with whom one shares a common history, culture and/or religion.

• anti-Semitism

• nationalism

• Ottoman Empire

• patriotism

A military force used to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion in 1991, also called Operation Desert Storm.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Persian Gulf War

• Kuwaiti Freedom

• Kuwait/Iraq War

The last Muslim Empire; including North Africa, SW Asia, and Europe; controlled much of the Middle East from the 1300s until the end of WWI. It is now Turkey

• Roman Empire

• Persian Empire

• Hunnic Empire

• Ottoman Empire

People who have to leave their homes as the result of war.

• outcasts

• Palestinians

• refugees

• Syrians

A landlocked, mountainous country located northwest of India and east of Iran in the Middle East. The U.S. began its search for Osama fin Laden here after the 9/11 attacks.

• Bolivia

• Liechtenstein

• Turkey

• Afghanistan

A worldwide movement that began in the late 1800s. It encouraged Jews to move back to their "promised land" of Zion.

• Judaism

• utilitarianism

• Zionism

• anti-Semitism

Hatred of the Jews simply because they practiced the Jewish faith.

• Judaism

• utilitarianism

• anti-Semitism

• Zionism

An invasion led by the United States in 2003 to stop the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), such as nuclear weapons, by Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Kuwaiti Freedom

• Kuwait/Iraq War

• Operation Desert Storm

What three major religions have their origins in the Middle East?

• Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism

• Judaism, Christianity, Islam

• Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism

• Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism