Chapter 23 - Southwest Asia

Question 0

A largely unskilled laborer, often an immigrant from South and East Asia, brought into the oil-booming countries to fill job openings that the region’s native people find culturally or economically unacceptable.

Answer 0

Guest Workers

Question 1

A nation of people that does not have a territory to legally occupy, like the Palestinians, Kurds, and Basques.

Answer 1

Stateless Nation

Question 2

A displaced group of Arabs who lived or still live in the area formerly called Palestine and now called Israel.

Answer 2

Palestinians

Question 3

In Israel, a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River, originally controlled by Jordan, which is part of the land set aside for Arab Palestinians.

Answer 3

West Bank

Question 4

A territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula; part of the land set aside for Palestinians, which was occupied by Israel in 1967.

Answer 4

Gaza Strip

Question 5

A resource so important that nations will go to war to insure its steady supply.

Answer 5

Strategic Commodity

Question 6

The skills and talents of employed people.

Answer 6

Human Resources