Middle East Oversimplified

Question 1

What was the Balfour Decloration of 1917?

Answer 1

A desire to establish a homeland for the Jews.

Question 2

What is Zionism?

Answer 2

the ideolgy to establish a Jewish homeland

Question 3

What, and when, was formed that conflicted with Zionism?

Answer 3

the Arab League, after WW2

Question 4

What did the US proposal of 1947 do?

Answer 4

partitioned Arab and Jewish areas of Palestine with Jerusalem

Question 5

May 14 1948 the British mandate ended so what started?

Answer 5

Palastinian war

Question 6

In the Palastinian war Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq sided with who? WHo did they fight against?

Answer 6

Palastinians. Israel

Question 7

Who won the palastinian war, what did this cause?

Answer 7

Israel, refeugee problem

Question 8

When was the Suez Crisis?

Answer 8

1956

Question 9

When was the second conflict at the suez? what was it nicknamed?

Answer 9

June 5-11 1967, 6-day war

Question 10

Who was the 6-day war between?

Answer 10

Israel and Egypt

Question 11

The attack on Israel by Egypt, Syria and Iraq in Oct 1973 was on what Jewish Holiday? Who won, Why?

Answer 11

Yom Kippur. Israle, US help.

Question 12

What is OPEC?

Answer 12

Organization of Petrolium Exporting Countries

Question 13

What did OPEC do in respose to the Yom Kippur war?

Answer 13

raided oil prices 70% to any supporters of Isreael

Question 14

What dose “hawk” mean vs “dove”?

Answer 14

hawk - a country or person that favors entry into war.

dove - a country or person that opposes militarty conflict

Question 15

Sadat goes from hawk to dove and in 1979 he gose to Camp _____ Accords(aka the _____ ______). These accords were facilitated by _____ ______ and resulted in the agreement to ……

Answer 15

• David
• Isreal-Egypt
• Pres. Carter

Question 16

What is Israel alowed becaue to the Camp David Accords?

Answer 16

to use the Suez
buy oil form Egypt
negotiate the refugee problem

Question 17

Because of Egypts actions int he Camp David Accords what happens?

Answer 17

OPEC expels them

Question 18

What worsens the refugee problem in Israel in 1975

Answer 18

civil war in Lebanon

Question 19

Isreael invades Lebanon in ____ with the ____ support because they belive that the _______ is behind the civil war.

Answer 19

• 1982
• US
• USSR

Question 20

Revolution in Iran sees the overthrow of __ and __ instaled Shah and Ayatollah _______ comes to power and establishes ________.

Answer 20

• US and BR
• Khomeini
• martial law

Question 21

Who is the Pres. of the US after 1981?

Answer 21

Ronald Reagan

Question 22

Who dose the USSR invade in 1979? What is the fallout by the US?

Answer 22

Afganistan. they boycot the olympics

Question 23

Who invaded Kuwait on Aug 2, 1990?

Answer 23

Iraq

Question 24

What is the reaction to the Iraq invasion into Kuwait?

Answer 24

• US backed UN force of 48 countries
• rallied around Pres. Bush
• his “Operation Desert Storm”

Question 25

Who is Saddam Hussein?

Answer 25

President of Iraq 1979 - 2003

Question 26

What dose Saddam anounce forigniers will be used as?

Answer 26

human sheilds

Question 27

When does the Persian Gulf War start? What did Saddam do?

Answer 27

Jan. 1991 - Gassed the Curds - Lanched missiles at Isreal hopping to elicit a respose so he could gain support of other Arab countries.

Question 28

When dose the Persian Gulf War end?

Answer 28

Feb. 1991

Question 29

Were and weapons of mass destruction used in the Pursian Gulf War?

Answer 29

No

Question 30

Over 1 million gallons of oil were released form over 1 000 wells this was considdered.....

Answer 30

environmental warfare

Question 31

There were 40 000-100 000 Iraq deaths, how many Allied ones were there?

Answer 31

150

Question 32

When was the NY World Trade center bombed

Answer 32

1993 (Feb)

Question 33

Who was Osama Bin Ladin

Answer 33

founder of terrorist gtoup Al-Qaeda

Question 34

in 1998 how many missiles were used to try and kill Bin Ladin?

Answer 34

75

Question 35

On Sep 11 2001 four flights hit what locations?

Answer 35

world trade center, pentagon and a feild in Pensilvania

Question 36

How many terrorist were invloved in 9/11?

Answer 36

15

Question 37

What was the US response to 9/11?

Answer 37

attack into Afganistan Oct 7 2001

Question 38

The US delcare those who they capptures _______ instead of "prisioners of war"

Answer 38

"enemy combatants"

Question 39

What countries were included in the "Axis of Evil" Speech by Georege W. Bush?

Answer 39

Iraq, Iran, North Korea

Question 40

Who had misinformation about Saddam's wapons of mass destruction?

Answer 40

the US representitives

Question 41

When did the US lead force invade into Iraq?

Answer 41

Mar 18 2003

Question 42

how may countries stared in the Iraq war, what about four years later?

Answer 42

49, `18

Question 43

May 1 2003 George W Bush had his _______ _________ photo op

Answer 43

mission accomplished