MIDDLE EAST DEFINTIONS Flashcards
What is the meaning of the word Al Qaeda?
a group of Muslims extremist who were responsive for September 11, 2001 terroirs attack on us targets, the name means the force
What is the meaning of the word Anti-Semitism?
Haterd for Jews
What is the meaning behind the word Civil War?
A war between citizens of the same Country
What is the meaning behind Coalition?
A temporary alliance between countries
What is the meaning behind the word Diaspora?
The scattering of Jews across the world.
What is the meaning behind the world Holocaust?
The killing of over six million European Jews in Nazi concentration camps and the flight from Europe of others to avoid death.
What is the meaning of the word ISIS?
the Islamic states of Iraq and Syria: a terroirs group
What is the meaning behind the word of Nationalism?
the idea that countries are most sussceful if the people who live there share some common cultural, historic or religious belief
What is the meaning behind the word of OPEC? (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
An organization of oil- producing countries formed to control the price of oil on the world marker
What is the meaning of Operation Iraqi Freedom?
the invasion of Iraq in 2003
What is the meaning behind the Ottoman Empire?
the empire controlled much of southwest Asia until the end of the world war 1, an empire founded in 1299 by Ottoman Turks, at one time it stretched from Asia minor to southern Europe, North Africa, Southwest Asia
What is the meaning behind the Palestinian- Israeli Conflict?
a conflict that resulted from founding of Israel in 1948 and the takeover of land that Palestinian’s claimed
What is the meaning behind the word Partition?
to divide
What is the meaning behind the Persian Gulf War?
A conflict that began when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990
What is the meaning behind the Operation Desert Storm?
Name given to the Persian gulf conflict of 1990-1991 in which United Nations troop succeeded in driving Iraq out of Kuwait
What is the meaning behind the word Refugee?
a person who has to leave his or hers home as a result to war
What is the meaning behind the Six-Day War?
a war in 1967 in which Israel captured parts of Jordan, West bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the Sahai Peninsula
What is the meaning behind the Taliban?
A group of Islamic extremist in Afghanistan who enforced very strict sharia law
What is the meaning the word Terrorism?
the unlawful use of violone and intimidation
What is the United Nations?
A international organization founded in 1945
What is the meaning behind Zionists?
Those who felt the world of Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion.
