SW Asia History Adv2
  • 1. What is Zionism?
A) Laws that discriminated against Jews
B) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
C) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
  • 2. What is anti-Semitism?
A) Laws that discriminated against Palestinians
B) Laws that discriminated against Jews
C) Movement to unite Jews and settle in Palestine
  • 3. Which of these is an example of anti-Semitism?
A) Jews in Germany had to wear stars to identify them as Jews
B) Palestinians have to carry papers with them in Israel or be arrested
C) Jews of any nationality are guaranteed citizenship in Israel
  • 4. How long has there been anti-Semitism in Europe?
A) Decades
B) A few years
C) Centuries
  • 5. How is the Holocaust related to the founding of modern Israel?
A) People around the world were horrified that Jewish refugees couldn’t go to Palestine
B) European Jews founded Israel in Palestine
C) Palestinians fleeing WWII in Europe returned home to Palestine
  • 6. What was the UN solution to the tension between Jewish settlers and Palestinians?
A) Give Palestine back to the Palestinians
B) Give Palestine to the Jewish settlers
C) Divide Palestine into a Jewish country and a Palestinian country
  • 7. Why were the British hesitant to let so many Jews settle in Palestine?
A) They wanted the Jews to return to Europe
B) The Jews weren’t going to be able to farm
C) Too many Jewish settlers made Britain’s Arab allies mad
  • 8. What was the Palestinian response to huge numbers of Jewish settlers immigrating to Palestine?
A) They all moved out and started a new country
B) They voted to kick the settlers out
C) They attacked the settlers
  • 9. Which form of Islam do Saudi Arabia and Turkey follow?
A) Sunni
B) Intifada
C) Shia
  • 10. Which of these nations is predominantly Shia (or Shiite)?
A) Turkey
B) Iraq
C) Iran
  • 11. What does "marginalized" mean?
A) to treat people as sort of important
B) to treat people as really important
C) to treat people as insignificant
  • 12. Which country did NOT contain part of Kurdistan
A) Syria
B) Turkey
C) Egypt
  • 13. Why did the USA invade Iraq in 1990?
A) To get Iraq out of Iran
B) To capture control of oil fields
C) To get Iraq out of Kuwait
  • 14. Why did Iraq invade its neighbor in 1990?
A) To capture oil fields
B) To gain access to the Red Sea
C) To spread Sunni Islam
  • 15. Why did the USA invade Afghanistan in 2001?
A) Afghanistan owed the US oil
B) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Afghanistan
C) Afghanistan invaded Kuwait
  • 16. What is the Taliban?
A) Government of Afghanistan
B) Government of Iraq
C) Terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia
  • 17. Who was Osama binLaden?
A) Leader of Iraq
B) Leader of al-Qaeda
C) Leader of PLO
  • 18. In 2003, why did the USA invade Iraq?
A) The 9/11 terrorists were supported by Iraq
B) US thought Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction
C) Iraq had oil fields that the USA needed
  • 19. Which graph represents Iran?
A) a
B) c
C) b
D) d
  • 20. Which bar represents Egypt?
A) b
B) a
C) d
D) c
  • 21. Which spot on the map best matches the Arab-Israeli conflict?
A) d
B) a
C) b
D) c
  • 22. Which spot on the map best matches the Gulf War?
A) c
B) a
C) b
D) d
  • 23. Which spot on the map best matches the invasion of Afghanistan?
A) c
B) b
C) d
D) a
  • 24. Which spot on the map best matches the Iraq War?
A) b
B) c
C) d
D) a
  • 25. . Choose one of the conflicts and explain how the mistakes made during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire continue to cause conflicts today, using the conflict you chose as an example: Arab-Israeli Conflict; Gulf War; Invasion of Afghanistan; Iraq War
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