Continuing Conflict in SW Asia

Europeans created artificial borders in the Middle East causing conflict between ethnic and religious groups. How were Europeans able to partition the land?

• Europeans persecuted Jews through the Holocaust

• Europeans won land from the Ottoman Empire concluding WWI

• Jews were forced to leave by the Romans in the Diaspora

• Immigrants moved to Palestine after WWII

Today, a major cause of conflict in SW Asia is fighting between which two groups over land?

• Bedouins and Armenians

• Persians and Iranians

• Jews and Palestinians

• Arabs and Egyptians

What problems did the new boundaries in the Middle East cause as people found themselves living in newly created countries?

• All of the new countries had a low standard of living

• The new countries included people who did not have much in common

• Most of the new countries were formed in the desert, so it was hard to find work

• People in the new countries could no longer practice their religion

Europeans created artificial borders in the Middle East causing conflict between ethnic and religious groups. How were Europeans able to partition the land?

• Europeans persecuted Jews through the Holocaust

• Europeans won land from the Ottoman Empire concluding WWI

• Jews were forced to leave by the Romans in the Diaspora

• Immigrants moved to Palestine after WWII

Sunni & Shia conflict in Iraq and Syria

Kurdish nationalism

Israeli Jew & Palestinian Arab Conflict

Which THEME unites the items above?

• US Involvement in the Middle East

• Land & Religion conflicts in the Middle East

• Conflicts prior to WWI

• Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Define "anti-semitism".

• Hatred of women

• Refusing to allow people to practice any religion

• Hatred of Jews

• Hatred of Arabs

Six million Jews were killed in the ___________________.

• Holocaust

• Kristallnacht

• Zionism

• Diaspora

The movement to create a Jewish homeland is called _________________.

• Anti-Semitism

• The Holocaust

• Diaspora

• Zionism

What country ruled Palestine after WWI?

• France

• Great Britain

• Germany

• Italy

How did the Arabs in Palestine feel about the new state of Israel?

• They were unaffected.

• They supported it.

• They rejected it and thought it was unfair.

• They were unhappy but agreed to work it out.