Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz, Part 2

A law enacted in 1950 in Israel, granting

Jews anywhere in the world permission to

move to Israel and become citizens

• Holocaust

• Law of Return

• Anti-Semitism

• PLO

A belief that religious rules and laws should be strictly observed

• Fundamentalism

• Zionism

• Law of Return

• Taliban

The largest ethnic group in the Middle East; Speak Arabic

• Hamas

• Muslim

• Arab

• Persian

War between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years;

Saddam Hussein, the ruler of Iraq, invaded Iran in 1980

• WWII

• Six Day War

• Iran-Iraq War

• Persian Gulf War

The United States and other countries invaded Iraq in order to force Iraq out of Kuwait

• Iran Iraq War

• Persian Gulf War

• Six Day War

• Operation Freedom

The United States with the help of Britain, Australia and other countries invaded

Iraq in 2003 because they believed Saddam Hussein, the ruler of Iraq, was

hiding dangerous illegal weapons.

• Civil War

• Iran - Iraq War

• Desert Storm

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

In October, 2001 the United States began bombing Taliban centers in Afghanistan

in response to the attack on September 11, 2001, of the World Trade Center in

New York.

• Iraq-Iran War

• Desert Storm

• Invasion of Afghanistan

• Persian Gulf War

A community in Israel where the goal is collective ownership; Originally based on farms/agriculture

• Diaspora

• Kippur

• Kibbutz

• Zionism

A series of wars between 1948 and 1973

that were fought between Israel and the

Arab countries of Iraq, Syria, Egypt,

Jordan, and Lebanon

• Arab­ Israeli Wars

• Persian Gulf War

• Afghan War

• Six Day War

Formed in 1964 by Palestinians who refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist

• UhOh

• PLO

• UFO

• OPEC