Historical Understandings Middle East

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Across
  1. 2. president of Iraq that led attacks on Kuwait
  2. 4. the force, terrorists that planned and carried out 9/11 attacks
  3. 5. a group of radical Muslims that governed Afghanistan
  4. 6. country responsible for harboring terrorists after 9/11 attacks
  5. 7. US launched an invasion to stop Iraq from developing nuclear weapons
  6. 10. word used to describe what happened to the Taliban after US attacked
  7. 13. those who felt the world's Jews deserved to return to their homeland
  8. 14. partitioned by European politicians after WWI
  9. 17. US' main economic interest in SW Asia
  10. 18. where troops were set up during Persian Gulf War
  11. 19. hatred of the Jews
Down
  1. 1. organization that comes to the aid of other member nations
  2. 3. wealthy muslim that financed al-quaeda organization
  3. 7. other name for Persian Gulf War
  4. 8. place where Bin-Laden was hiding in Afghanistan
  5. 9. country invaded by Iraq in 1990 because Iraq wanted to control oil feilds
  6. 11. reasons for continuing conflicts in the Middle East
  7. 12. person who had to leave their home as a result of war
  8. 15. created in 1948 by the UN
  9. 16. six million European Jews killed in concentration camps