Modern Middle East Quizzo

Round 1 – Arab Israeli Conflict 1. What is the name of the movement that wanted the creation of a Jewish homeland? 2. What is the word for dividing an area into parts?

Round 1 - Arab Israeli Conflict 3. Who is Theodore Hertzl? 4. What is the name of the document written by Britain that agreed that there was a need for the creation of a Jewish homeland? 5. What is the term for the hatred of Jewish people?

Round 1 - Answers Zionism Partition Famous Zionist Balfour Declaration 5. Anti-Semitism

Round 2 – Arab Israeli Conflict 1. Why is the United States involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict? 2. What is the name of the country associated with the Jewish people in the area also known at the Holy Land? 3. What is the name of the country associated with the Arab people in the area also known at the Holy Land?

Round 2 – Arab Israeli Conflict 4. What is the name for the spreading out of the Jewish people? 5. What is the name of the peninsula in the northeast part of Egypt? 6. What happened to the Palestinians after the 1948 War? 7. Why was Camp David important? 8. Why were the Oslow Accords important?

Round 2 - Answers 1. Similar culture 2. Israel 3. Palestine 4. Diaspora 5. Sinai Peninsula 6. Refugee camps 7. 1 st peace conference between Arab country & Israel 8. 1 st peace conference between Israel and Palestinians

Round 3 - OPEC 1. What does OPEC stand for? 2. What is another name for oil? 3. What is the term for a small group controlling a product or resource? 4. What is the term for a resource that cannot be replaced once it is removed from the Earth?

Round 3 - OPEC 5. Where are most of the countries in OPEC located? 6. Name one of the 2 ways OPEC controls oil 7. Why is the U.S. not part of OPEC? 8. Why is the World’s energy use increasing faster than the U.S.’?

Round 3 - Answers 1. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 2. Petroleum 3. Oligopoly 4. Non- renewable resource 5. Middle East 6. Price of oil and amount of oil 7. The U.S. does not export oil 8. The World is gaining technology we already had (modernizing)

Round 4 - Iraq 1. What country did Iraq fight in a war in the 1980s? 2. What was the effect of the war Iraq fought in the 1980s? 3. What was the cause of the Persian Gulf War start? 4. What is the term for the many countries that worked together in the Persian Gulf War?

Round 4 - Iraq 5. What did Iraq have to do as a result of the Persian Gulf War? 6. Name one of the two reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq in Who was the leader the U.S. removed from power in Iraq? 8. What happened to him after he was captured?

Round 4 - Answers 1. Iran 2. Huge debt 3. Iraq invaded Kuwait 4. Coalition 5. Allow U.N. to inspect for weapons

Round 4 - Answers 6. Either of the following: Iraq was not allowing weapons inspections OR the U.S. suspected Iraq had weapons of mass destruction 7. Saddam Hussein 8. He was convicted of crimes against his own people and hanged

Round 5 - Afghanistan 1. What country invaded Afghanistan during the Cold War? 2. What group gained control of Afghanistan during the 1990s? 3. What was this group’s goal? 4. What is al Queda?

Round 5 - Afghanistan 5. Who was the leader of al Queda? 6. What group was responsible for the attacks of 9/11? 7. What the name of the operation when the U.S. attacked Afghanistan? 8. Why did the U.S. attack Afghanistan after 9/11?

Round 5 - Answers 1. Soviet Union 2. Taliban 3. Strict Islamic state 4. Terrorist organization 5. Osama bin Laden 6. Al Queda 7. Operation Enduring Freedom 8. Taliban wouldn’t turn over bin Laden

Round 6 – Contributing Factors 1. Which of the following countries has oil: Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq? 2. Which of the following countries was directly affected by the Cold War: Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq? 3. Which of the following countries was directly affected by WWI: Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq?

Round 6 – Contributing Factors 4. What caused the Jewish people to be spread

Round 6 - Answers 1. Iraq 2. Afghanistan 3. Iraq and Israel

Round 8 - Questions

Round 8 - Answers

Round 1 – Arab Israeli Conflict (Physical Feature) (Country) (Country) (Water) (Country) (Country) (Country) (City)

Round 1 - Answers Mediterranean Sea Suez Canal Egypt Israel Jordan Jerusalem Syria Lebanon