Middle East and Southeast Asia Review

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

• refugee
• transplant
• immigrant
• squatter

In Somalia, different _________ are fighting with each other in order to gain power.

• political parties
• clans
• judges
• European countries

Other probelms in Somalia include food shortages due to all of the following EXCEPT

• drought
• food raids on UN convoys
• floods

This was also a problem off the shores of Somalia due to an unstable government.

• illegal fishing
• piracy
• environmental disasters
• offshore drilling

This Crisis happened in 1979 after a revolution and the founding of a repressive Islamic republic radicals seized 66 American workers at the U.S. embassy in the city of Tehran.

• The Yemen Hostage Crisis
• The Kuwait Hostage Crisis
• The Iran Hostage Crisis
• The Somali Hostage Crisis

The Shah of Iran, after fleeing Iran, requests to come to the US to start treatment for this health problem, setting in motion the event for the Iran Hostage Crisis.

• cancer
• the flu
• Parkinson's
• liver disease

In each conflict, the United States sided with this country, but also tried juggling the role of peacekeeper

• Israel
• Palestine
• Jordan

The President of the US that was in office during the Iran Hostage Crisis who did not get re-elected was

• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagan
• Bill Clinton

In Isreal/Palestine, there is a conflict between which two religious groups?

• the Jews of Isreal and the Christians
• The Christians and the Arab Muslims
• The Arab Muslims and the Jews of Isreal
• The Christians and the Hindu

A Jewish person who is striving for an Independent state of Isreal for as the Jewish homeland is called a

• Realist
• Homelander
• Buddhist
• Zionist