ME History Vocabulary One

The mass extermination of the Jews prior and during WWII by the Nazis.

• Mandates

• Ottoman Empire

• Covenant

• Holocaust

The terror organization running training camps for terrorists in Afghanistan; it trained the 911 hijackers.

• Pan-Africanism

• Taliban

• Al-Qaeda

• Guerrilla Army

The former leader of Al-Qaeda (now dead) who was behind the planning and funding of many terrorist attacks, including September 11th bombings in the USA,

• Saddam Hussein

• F.W. de Klerk

• Nelson Mandela

• Osama bin Laden

The scattering out of the Jews from the Holy Land in 70 AD by the Romans after the destruction of the 2nd Jewish temple.

• Holocaust

• Diaspora

• Anti-semitism

• Dome of the Rock

A minority ethnic group without a country. They are spread out into Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

• Kurds

• Arabs

• Ashanti

• Palestinians

Prejudice, discrimination against the Jews.

• Mandates

• Caliph

• Anti-semitism

• Antibiotic

Those areas where the Palestinians were forced into that include...the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.

• Occupied Territories

• Mandates

• Artificial Boundaries

• Occasional Territories

This area was established in 1948 by Jews who came from all over the world back to their homeland.

• Modern Muslim Nation

• Modern Christian Nation

• Modern Jewish Nation

• Modern Pierce Nation

Title given to the leader of Islam.

• Priest

• Preacher

• Minister

• Caliph

The agreement between God and Abraham resulting in the Hebrew people following monotheism and the laws of the Old Testament.

• Converted

• Covering

• Concerted

• Covenant