Creating the Modern Middle East

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Across
  1. 3. Group of nations that attempted an invasion of Israel after its creation.
  2. 8. Right to decide one's political future.
  3. 10. The other name for the Middle East.
  4. 11. This event resulted in an outpouring of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
  5. 12. Group other than the Arabs that claimed Palestine to be their homeland.
Down
  1. 1. Nickname given to the Ottoman Empire towards the mid-1800s.
  2. 2. Country that ruled over the Palestinian Mandate.
  3. 4. City that the UN determined should remain an "international city".
  4. 5. Last great empire builders in the Middle East.
  5. 6. Movement for a re-established independent Jewish national state in the Middle East.
  6. 7. Many Middle East countries gained their independence after this war.
  7. 9. Land being governed by an outside power until its predetermined independence.