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WorksheetsSWA History Unit Exam Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the ultimate outcome of the UN partition Plan for Palestine?
A Jewish nation was founded and occupies the territory designated for an Arab nation.
The United Nations took control of Palestine and refused to grant the people independence
A Jewish nation and an Arab nation were founded and remain independent of each other.
Who were the Zionists?
Jewish communities that rose up against Ottoman control during WWI.
Arab communities that rose up against Ottoman control during WWI.
People who believed that Jewish people needed their own homeland for religious reasons.
What is one historical cause for the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli government?
Both claim that they are descended from the Roman rulers of the land.
Both claim that they were granted the same land in the Balfour Declaration.
Both claim that God granted the same land to their people.
In the 2000's the United States invaded Afghanistan because the _____ government refused to turn Osama bin Laden to the U.S. government.
Pakistan
TALIBAN
Telaviv
T/F: The United States involvement in the Gulf War was in response to Iraq's invasion of Afghanistan.
True
False: Iran
False: Kuwait
T/F: France did NOT join the coalition and fight alongside the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
True
False: Great Britain
False: Australia
T/F: The 1947 United Nations plan was to divide Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.
True
False: It was to create a Jewish state only.
False: It was to create an Arab state only.
What was the code names for the US involvement in the Persian Gulf War?
Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Steel Tiger
Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm
Operation Tropic Thunder and Operation Tropical Punch
Iraq agreed to two terms at the end of the Persian Gulf War: Allow UN inspectors into Iraqi weapons factories and ...
to surrender Osama bin Laden.
to surrender Saddam Hussein to U.S. forces.
to give up it's claim to Kuwait.
Which event led to the Persian Gulf War?
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq was defeated in the FIFA World Cup by Manchester United.
Iran set Kuwait's oil fields on fire.
The U.N. sabotaged Iraqi oil refineries.
The Persian Gulf War mainly involved Iraq and...
Australia
The United States
China
Japan
Why did U.S. leaders want to get involved in the conflict between Kuwait and Iraq?
They were concerned that Iraq would invade Saudi Arabia.
They were concerned that Kuwait would invade Saudi Arabia.
They were concerned that Iraq's leaders would gain assistance from the Soviet Union.
What event is being referenced below?
"First, we seek the immediate, unconditional, and complete withdrawal of all Iraqi forces from Kuwait."
the Korean War
the Soviet-Afghan War
the Persian Gulf War
the Vietnam conflict
In his 1990 speech, President Bush condemned the actions of...
Saddam Hussein
Muammar Gaddafi
Ayatollah Khomeini
Bill Clinton
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait mostly affected global...
oil supply
economy
peace accords
demographics
T/F: During WWI, the Soviet Union was divided into zones by Middle Eastern powers.
True
False: Ottoman empire was divided by European powers.
False: European nations were divided by Middle Eastern powers.
The Taliban government provided protection for the terrorist organization al-Qaeda which led to the U.S. invading...
Iraq
Iran
Afghanistan
Worldwide support for the establishment of a Jewish state followed the events of the...
Holocaust
9/11
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Desert Storm
The U.S. launched a military invasion of... after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iran
Which of the following is reflected in this excerpt?
partitioning of the OttomanSaudi Arabia Empire
U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
the establishment of Israel as a Nation
causes of World War II
In 2003 the U.S. government justified it's invasion of Iraq by claiming that the Iraqi government provided support for international terrorist organizations.
True
False: The U.S. claimed that Afghanistan hid WMD's
False: The U.S. claimed that Iran supported international terrorist organizations.
T/F: Many of the conflicts in the Middle East are caused by the boundaries drawn by European powers after WWI and the fall of the Roman Empire
True
False: After the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
False: After the fall of the Babylonian Empire.
The U.S. feared that Iraq would soon control nearly half of the worlds oil supply, therefore the U.S. initiated ___.
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Sabre
Operation Elective Surgery
The Arabs believe Palestine belongs to them through Ishmael. The Jews believe Palestine belongs to them through Isaac.
This is the main reason for the continuing conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
This is the main reason that Iraq believes Kuwait's oil and land belong to Iraq.
If both sides would compromise, there would peace among the nations for 10,000 years.
Identify the two branches of Islam that have resulted because of the issue of the succession of the Caliph.
Shia
Shawshank
Sunni
Jamiroquai
