SY 25-26 SS7 Chapter 18.2

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  1. 2. War which took place from May 1948 to January 1949. It was fought over the disputed land of Palestine and culminated in a Jewish victory. Referred to in Israel as the War of Independence, the war was a response by neighboring Arab nations to Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. The war ended with the establishment of the Jewish nation of Israel.
  2. 4. Arabic word for God
  3. 9. A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.
  4. 10. British document supporting the creation of Jewish state in Palestine
  5. 12. Cities in Mesopotamia represented the world's first
  6. 13. In 2010 and 2011, a popular uprising in Tunisia inspired democratic movements in Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria.
  7. 17. (Operation Desert Storm) Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, which led to a US-led coalition liberating Kuwait in this 1991 conflict.
  8. 19. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 sparking an eight year war.
  9. 20. Pillars of Islam five acts of worship required of all Muslims
  10. 23. Belief in many gods
  11. 24. Regarded as the last and greatest prophet by Muslims, and the founder of Islam
  12. 25. Mesopotamia is located in this present day country
  13. 26. Rivers
  14. 28. Followers of Judaism
  15. 29. Group of Muslim tribes that built an empire that revived Islamic expansion from 1299-1922, centered on Turkey
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  1. 1. The existence of these large natural resource pools have been the source of conflict in the Southwest Asia region
  2. 2. Implemented by the United Nations to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. Rejected by Arab states and failed
  3. 3. The 1916 secret agreement between Britain and France divided up the Arab lands with little regard for existing ethnic, religious, political, or historical divisions.
  4. 5. Religion of the Israelites
  5. 6. Fertile plain between the Tigris &
  6. 7. Founder of Christianity
  7. 8. The plan to allow Britain and France to administer former Ottoman territories was put into place after the end of the First World War. With the goal of eventual independence
  8. 11. a period of one thousand years
  9. 14. A country that obtains much of its revenue from the export of oil or other natural resources.
  10. 15. an Islamist organization called al-Qaeda carried out this terrorist attack on U.S. soil that killed nearly 3,000 people
  11. 16. Mohammed's successors
  12. 18. popular uprising in Iran in 1978-79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on April 1, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic.
  13. 21. an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia that has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century
  14. 22. Belief in one God
  15. 27. Arab scholars made advancements in