History of SW Asia Review

What group was already living in Palestine before Israel was created in 1948?

• French
• Palestinian Arabs
• Americans
• Spanish

What movement called for a Jewish homeland and encouraged Jews to move back to the land now called "Israel"?

• The Crusades
• Zionism
• The PLO
• Arab Nation

What is anti-semitism?

• discrimination based on skin color
• hatred or discrimination of jews
• policies to separate blacks and whites
• the mass genocide of people

Where are the majority of Jewish people located in Southwest Asia today?

• Israel
• the West Bank
• the Gaza Strip
• Saudi Arabia

Which ethnic group forms the Majority around the boarders of Israel?

• Kurds
• Persians
• Arabs

What was the conflict over the land of Palestine after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire?

• The Turks felt they should own the land
• The Muslim Palestinians viewed the land as their "Promised Land" but the Jewish inhabitants already lived on the land
• The Jewish immigrants viewed the land as their "Promised Land" but the Muslim Palestinians already lived on the land
• The Ottoman Empire already promised the land to the Persians

What is the Arab reaction to the U.N. partition Plan?

• Accept it as fair since both sides get land.

• Reject it as unfair since Jews get more land but have fewer inhabitants

• View it as unfair because Jews get Jerusalem

• View it as fair since Arabs Palestinian Muslims get Jerusalem.

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

The act of dividing up land...the result of the end of or the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

• Partitioning

• artificial boundaries

• League of Nations

• United States

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• colonialism

• nationalism

• WWI

• Ottoman Empire.