Middle East / SW Asia History Test

What is ‘anti-Semitism’?

• discrimination against Arabs

• discrimination against Kurds

• discrimination against Jews

• discrimination against Nazis

In what year was the new state of Israel created?

• 1930

• 1948

• 1991

• 1897

What large empire broke up after World War I?

• Germany

• Europe

• Ottoman Empire

• Persian Empire

The international movement for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland is known as what?

• Nationalism

• Zionism

• Buddhism

• Judaism

Who drew up the boundaries for the new countries formed after the breakup of this empire?

• Great Britain & Germany

• France and US

• Great Britain & France

• France and Palestine

Which of these was the biggest influence in the United Nations to recognize Israel as a nation-state in 1948?

• WWI

• the Holocaust

• discovery of oil

• the Middle East crisis

A major conflict in the Middle East is between Arab states and ______.

• Iraq

• Iran

• Israel

• Turkey

What led to the end of the Ottoman Empire? 

• They were on the losing side of WWI
• Factory worker rebelled 
• A famine led to a farmer revolt
• The empire went bankrupt

What was the problem with the new boundaries created by Europeans after the Ottoman Empire collapsed? 

• survivors of the Holocaust needed a place of their own
• the UN voted on how the boundaries would be established
• the Germans and Italians, who won WWI, wanted more of a say
• the boundaries did not respect cultural, historic or religious beliefs

Who was given a mandate over Palestine after WWI? 

• the Ottoman Emprire
• Holocaust survivors
• the British
• the United Nations