Middle East Final Summative

How did the 1973 OPEC Oil embargo affect the United States?

• a

• b

How has the United States tried to limit their economic interdependence on Middle Eastern oil?

• a

• b

How has the United States become economically interdependent with Saudi Arabia?

• a

• b

Why is Israel an important Middle Eastern ally for the United States?

• a

• b

Why did the United States implement Operation Desert Shield during the Persian Gulf War?

• a

• b

What was the purpose of the United States's Operation Desert Shield?

• a

• b

What was the purpose of Operation Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War?

• a

• b

Why was the United States's attack in the Highway of Death considered a war crime?

• a

• b

Why did the United States return to Iraq in the Second Iraq War?

• a

• b

What was the purpose of the Second Iraq War?

• a

• b