Conflicts in SWA

Who did the league of nations grant control of Palestine to?

• The British Empire

• The United States

• The Palestinian Authority

• the State of Israel

Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews have a historical conflict between one another; what is that conflcit?

• Both claim that they are descended from the Roman rulers of the land.

• Both claim that the League of Nations gave them the same land.

• Both claim that God granted the same land to their people

• Both claim that they were granted the same land in the Balfour Declaration.

France and Great Britain did not take into account the religious, cultural, or ethnic differences when they _____________ the land.

• overthrown

• established

• independent

• partitioned

Israel was established because_______________.

• sectarian violence in various Arab states

• Arabs needed a homeland after the Ottoman Empire fell

• the need for a safe Jewish homeland following the Holocaust

• the PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah wanted it that way

The world event where over 11 million people died in concentration camps was called

• Pearl Harbor

• The Holocaust

• World War I

• The Extermination

Israel and Palestinians main source of conflict in Southwest Asia is?

• slavery

• religion

• oil rights

• communism

A political movement that establishes a Jewish homeland is called

• Isolationism

• Nationalism

• Zionism

• Anti-semitism

What is the plan for Palestine in 1947 from the United Nations?

• The plan was to create a single Arab state.

• The plan was to divide Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.

• The plan was to create a single Jewish state.

• The plan was to divide Palestine into a socialist state and a democratic state.

What did Shia Muslims believe about the next caliph?

• They believed that the caliph should be elected by the Muslim community

• They believed that the caliph must be related to Muhammad.

• They believed that the caliph must have been born into a wealthy family.

• They believed that the caliph must seize control through force.

"Tribal Revolts in Iraq: Kurds targets in North, Shia in the South"

• the reasons behind US military involvement in the Persian Gulf War

• conflicts resulting from the partitioning of Southwest Asia following World War I

• the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Southwest Asia

• heightened ethnic tensions caused by the establishment of the State of Israel.