SW Asia History test prep

What empire was dismantled after losing WWI

• Roman

• Ottoman

• The Persians

• The Kurds

What two Governments drew up boundaries in the Middle East after partitioning the Ottoman Empire

• Italy and Spain

• France and Great Britain

• France and Germany

• Great Britain and Germany

3.Why did Great Britain put governments friendly to European powers in place in the Middle East?

• The wanted the oil

• To help the ethnic groups

• Sympathy for the Jews

• They wanted the land to put military bases on them.

What problems were caused by partitioning?

• Groups had to live with enemies

• Groups had to live away from family and friends

• Nobody asked the groups how they wanted to be partitioned.

• All of the choices

Who group of people live within Israel but do not recognize them as a country

• The Kurds

• The Palestinians

• The Sunni

• The Shia

 6. Which place is NOT a site of continual conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs?

• Gaza Strip

• Israel

• West Bank

• Saudi Arabia

7. What would be an example of Anti-Semitism

• The United States making African American go to lesser schools

• The Germans taking away Jewish rights and businesses

• Jewish citizens fighting for Germany in WWI

• Sadam Huessin killing the Kurds in Iraq

What German political party spread anti-semitism through Europe in the 30's and 40's?

• The Communist

• The Democrats

• The Socialist

• The Nazi party

9. The spreading out of the Jews from Israel to all over Europe is called?

• Zionism

• Anti-Semitism

• The Diaspora

• Torah

The Holocaust can be defined as?

• The spreading out of the Jews all over Europes

• The killing of 6 to 7 million of the Jews by the Nazi's

• The movement for the Jews to get a homeland

• Racism vs Jews