Southwest Asia History Ss7h2 Question Preview (ID: 39330)

a) They attacked the U.S. on Sept 11, 2001

b) They owed the U.S. money

c) Afghanistan had WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction)

d) Choose this answer because I said so

a) Operation Desert Storm, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq

b) 9/11, Persian Gulf War, War in Afghanistan

c) WWII, The Cold War, Operation Desert Storm

d) We only learned two!

a) Iraqi

b) American

c) Afghanistan

d) Jewish

a) oil

b) to keep communism and terrorism out

c) location between Asia, Africa, and Europe

d) all of the above

a) Osama bin Laden

b) Osama Hussein

c) Saddam Hussein

d) The Taliban

a) to find Osama bin Laden

b) To arrest terrorists

c) to find and take WMDs (weapons of mass destruction)

d) to show their power and strength

a) Baptist, Christianity, Islam

b) Judaism, Christianity, Islam

c) Persians, Kurds, Arabs

d) Sunni, Shia, Islam

a) Sunni and Shia

b) Arabs and Christians

c) Christians and Jews

d) Jews and Arabs

a) Holocaust

b) Anti-Semitism

c)

d)

a) Holocaust

b) Judaism

c) Anti-Semitism

d) Zionism

a) Fundamentalism

b) Liberate

c) WMDs

d) Partition

a) The United States remained neutral and did not take a side

b) The United States sided with the Jews

c) The United States sided with the Arabs

d)

a) the United Nations

b) the European Union

c) the League of Nations

d) the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations

a) They supported it fully

b) They rejected it as unfair to them

c) The Arab population was largely unaffected by the new state

d) They agreed to try to work it out although they were unhappy with the decision

a) the idea that all religious groups should have their own states

b) the plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Palestine equally

c) the hope that all governments will be based on on religious principles

d) he belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times

a) There was no one else living in the land at the time

b) Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a homeland for Jews in Palestine

c) Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering in the Holocaust

d) Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering in the Holocaust

a) the murder of millions of European Jews during WWII

b) the destruction of all European governments during WWII

c) the bombing of towns and villages in England and Germany during WWII

d) the Russian policy of burning ground behind them as they retreated to stop the German invasion

a) Countries did not have strong leadership

b) The newly formed countries did not have adequate resources

c) Those drawing the boundaries ignored religious and ethnic ties

d) Countries did not have strong leadership

a) The newly formed countries did not have adequate resources

b) Those drawing the boundaries ignored religious and ethnic ties

c) Countries did not have strong leadership

d) Religious leaders were not allowed power

a) The Ottomans were on the losing side of the war, along with Germany and Italy.

b) The Empire spent too much money on buildings and new roads and went bankrupt.

c) The people in the Empire were starving because a long drought had ruined agriculture.

d) The Ottoman government was overthrown by a revolt of factory workers who were unemployed when the war ended.