IR Jeopardy

Peace Plans & Treaties Arab Spring Iraq Pope-ouri

Row 1, Col 1 This agreement paid off Israel and Egypt. Begin & Sadat agreed to peace (first time that happened with an Arab state) Camp David Peace Accord

1,2 The Arab Spring was ignited here by Bouazizi Tunisia

1,3 One point of contention in Iraq is the sharing of this revenue stream Oil

1,4 The Ayatollahs reign here; Ahmadinejad is frontin’ Iran

2,1 This settlement established the precept of “land for peace” Oslo Accords

2,2 The second stop on the Arab Spring train. This one really shocked the world, seeing as how Mubarak was a US ally. Egypt

2,3 The ethnic minority of northern Iraq. They have autonomous status. Kurds

2,4 Bottled up frustration exploded in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, and Syria…some got some reforms. Arab Spring

3,1 The Brits made a promise to the Zionists Balfour Declaration

3,2 The poorest country of the Arab world has a strong AQAP presence and receives lots of aid from the US Yemen

3,3 The nationalist, secular, military-based party of Iraq and Syria Ba’ath Party

3,4 This OPEC state has Shari’a law in large part due to its reliance on Wahhabi clerics who help enforce order Saudi Arabia

4,1 Jewish terrorists were successful in pushing the Brits out and forcing this “half” solution to Arab nationalism & Zionism UN Partition of Israel

4,2 NATO’s most recent mission involved air support for rebels based out of Benghazi Libya

4,3 These Shi’ite martyrs are still memorialized in Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere Ali & Hussein

4,4 This party gained control of Gaza in elections in 2005 Hamas

5,1 The Brits and French diced up the Ottoman Empire in 1916 Picot-Sykes Treaty

5,2 Time will tell if this country is the latest domino in the Arab Spring. In the meantime, al-Qaeda and other extremists are gaining a foothold and conflict is spilling into neighbors Syria

5,3 The two main reasons the US left Saddam in power in 1991 Check Iran’s Power & Prevent ethnic strife

5,4 The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization Through the 70’s & 80’s (Former terrorist, but he met Clinton) Yassir Arafat