World War I and the Ottoman Empire Quiz

Why did the Ottoman Empire join World War I?

• To support its allies in the Triple Entente

• To expand its territories in Europe

• To form an alliance with for protection and support.

• To protect its borders from Russian invasion

The Treaty of _____________ officially ended World War I and reshaped the borders of Southwest Asia.

• Versailles
• Paris

• Britian

• the Ottoman Empire

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed by the _____________ and _____________ governments to partition the Ottoman Empire's territories.

• French and British

• Ottoman and Russian

• American and German

• Italian and Austrian

The __________________ was a secret agreement to divide Ottoman lands, which led to artificial borders in Southwest Asia.

• Balfour Declaration
• Sykes-Picot Agreement
• Camp David Accords
• Treaty of Versailles

Define colonialism.

• The expansion of democracy in foreign lands

• The acquiring political control one country by another

• The establishment of free trade across nations

• The spread of cultural values to new territories

The Balfour Declaration promised the establishment of a _____________ homeland in Palestine.

• Palestinian
• Jewish
• Christian
• Islamic

The country of Israel was established in ______________.

• 1946
• 1948
• 1950
• 1967

The term "Nakba," meaning ______________ in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians between 1947 and 1949.

• Victory
• Catastrophe
• Rebirth
• Division

The ______________ War in 1967 resulted in Israel's military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.

• Yom Kippur
• Six-Day
• Arab-Israeli

__________________ was the plan by the United Nations (UN) to divide Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states.

• Dividing Plan

• Resolution 181

• Treaty of Versailles

• Partition Party