SW Asia History

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Across
  1. 1. Important natural resource in SW Asia.
  2. 2. What city is at the center of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict?
  3. 4. Leader of Iraq for both US wars there.
  4. 7. Israel continues to build settlements in this contested area.
  5. 10. WWI caused the collapse of this nation.
  6. 13. Country invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
  7. 14. Major event that created worldwide sympathy for Jews, leading to the creation of Israel.
  8. 15. Terrorist group that caused 9/11.
  9. 17. Nation that fought multiple wars with Israel but has since made peace.
  10. 18. The US invaded this nation due to 9/11.
Down
  1. 1. Leader of Al-Qaeda.
  2. 3. Movement calling on Jews to return to the Holy Land.
  3. 5. Code name for the US attack on Iraq in 1991.
  4. 6. Violent protests against Israel.
  5. 8. Term that refers to the spreading out of a people from their homeland.
  6. 9. Prejudice against Jewish people.
  7. 11. Government of Afghanistan.
  8. 12. Large ethnic group with no homeland.
  9. 16. People who drew the political boundaries of SW Asia after WWI.
  10. 19. Terrorists from this contested area recently attacked Israel.