Southwest Asia History Vocabulary

Also called Holy Land. Biblical name, Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.

• Palestine

• diaspora

• Mesopotamia

• Israel

An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.

• Partitioning

• artificial boundaries

• League of Nations

• United States

A dispersion of people from their homeland

• Palestine

• diaspora

• Mesopotamia

• Israel

A territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula; part of the land set aside for Palestinians, which was occupied by Israel in 1967.

• Gaza Strip

• Antisemitism

• Zionist

• Holocaust

Present day Iraq 1st civilization developed here.

• Palestine

• diaspora

• Mesopotamia

• Israel

hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

• Gaza Strip

• Antisemitism

• Zionist

• Holocaust

The ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

• Palestine

• diaspora

• Mesopotamia

• Israel

A methodical elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

• Gaza Strip

• Antisemitism

• Zionist

• Holocaust

Jews who believed in a country of their own in Palestine

• Gaza Strip

• Antisemitism

• Zionist

• Holocaust

Austrian journalist and founder of the Zionist movement urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.

• George W. Bush

• Theodore Herzl

• Saddam Hussein

• Osama bin Laden