QR Challenge: History of the Middle East Study Guide

Question	Answer
Theocracy	government ruled by a religious group
Sultan	ruler of the Ottoman Empire
Nationalism	love for ones country- feeling your country is better than others
Zionism	movement to unite displaced Jews and settles them in Palestine.
Anti-Semitism	hatred of the Jews
Embargo	refusal to trade or to stop trade in a country
What happened to the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI	It was divided among different countries
Who took over the land that was one the Ottoman Empire	Great Britain and France
Explain the conflict caused when new borders were established in what was once the Ottoman Empire	They countries did not take in to consideration that they were separating ethnic and religious groups as well as mixing groups who did not get along.
Most of the Jewish ____ are located in Palestine	Sacred places
Where did most of the Jewish people want to go once the Holocaust was over	Palestine
At the end of WWII, people around the world asked who to help the Jewish people	United Nations
What did the UN decided to do for the Jewish people	Create a nation for them to live in – They divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab States
When was Israel created	May 14, 1948
Since Israel was created what two groups have not been able to live peacefully	Jewish and Arab
What is the main concern that the USA has with the Middle East countries	Oil
Who was the dictator in Iraq in the 1990s	Saddam Hussein
What did the creation of the country Kuwait do in the Middle East	Took away Iraq’s boarder on the Persian Gulf this caused them to lose access to oil
When Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, Kuwait knew they had to rely on what	Allies
Who did Kuwait call on to help and why was that country willing to help	United States because of the US gets a lot oil from Kuwait
This war became known as ____	Desert Storm
What happened when Iraq withdrew from Kuwait	Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to set fire to oil fields
During this time the United Nations set a ____ against Iraq, which stated what	Embargo – they could not export any goods nor could they import any goods
It is believed that only ______ % of their weapons were actually destroyed by the time the UN stopped searching in Iraq	85%
After Desert Storm the US felt that Hussein was hiding ____ and helping ____.	Weapons of Mass Destruction / members of al-Qaeda
In 2003, the US and other nations launched a military invasion of Iraq called ___	Operation Iraqi Freedom
After winning this invasion the United States helped set up ____ in Iraq	new government
In December 2003, _______ was found hiding in a hole- he was captured, tried, and sentenced to death	Saddam Hussein
In 2005, Iraq citizens took part in a free election to establish ______	democratic government
To this day ____________ are still causing conflict in Iraq	Sunni and Shia Muslims
2What was the goal of as-Qaeda	to put an end to western influences
September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacked who	United States
The al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked ____ planes	Four
They crashed these planes in to what places	2 Twin Tours, Pentagon, Field in Pennsylvania (intended to hit White House)
Who did the US believe was hiding Osama Bin Laden and where	Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan
October 2001, US troops entered Afghanistan for what two reasons	Disable the Taliban and find bin Laden
What did the US do to help the people of Afghanistan	Form a new democratic government
How long did Bin Laden hide for	10 years
In 2011, Bin Laden was found where	Living in a compound in Pakistan

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