| Question | Answer |
| One of the areas created from the Ottoman Empire after WWI was? | Palestine
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Palestine was important to what three religions? | Christianity, Judaism, Islam
| After WWII the area of Palestine was divided into 2 regions: | Palestine/Transjordan
| What European nation was given the task of governing Palestine after WWI? | Great Britain
| People who believed that the world's Jews should return to their ancestral homeland. | Zionists
| A term that means "hatred of the Jews". | Anti Semitism
| An event in which over 6 million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps. | Holocaust
| In 1948 what international group voted to create a nation for Jews? | United Nations
| The area of Palestine had been part of what empire before WWI? | Ottoman Empire
| Who was the first U.S. president to acknowledge the country of Israel? | Harry Truman
| What document created in 1917 stated that the British were in favor of a homeland for the Jews? | Balfour Declaration
| A country that is placed under the control of another power by international agreement, typically given independence by a certain date. | Mandate
| A person who has to leave their home as a result of war or some other catastrophic event. | Refugee
| What was the outcome of the 1948 War between the new state of Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine? | Israel won and gained more land.
| How did Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 feel about the creation of the new state of Israel? | They rejected it
| What resource in Southwest Asia is valuable to the U.S.? | Oil
| Did the Ottoman Empire allow for religious freedom? | yes
| What was one reason that the Ottoman Empire grew weaker before WWI? | Territory became to large, poor leadership
| Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990? | Wanted access to oil, thought the land was theirs.
| Who was the leader of Iraq in during the Persian Gulf War, and the War in Iraq? | Saddam Hussein
| What country did the United States declare war in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks? | Afghanistan
| When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 they were afraid that Iraq was building what kind of weapons? | Nuclear
| What was the name of the terror group that carried out the 9/11 terror attacks against the U.S.? | al-Qaeda
| Name a modern country that was once a part of the Ottoman Empire. | Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, etc. |
