Unit 5 Middle East Conflict

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Across
  1. 2. Primary language for many people in the Middle East.
  2. 3. Practice of violence designed to instill fear.
  3. 4. This nation staged a revolution in 1979 that installed an Islamic government.
  4. 5. Palestinian terrorist organization that has power in Gaza.
  5. 7. 1979 event in which Iranian students took 66 American hostages.
  6. 11. Storm. U.S. military operation in 1991 that kicked Iraq's army out of Kuwait.
  7. 12. Only Jewish nation in the Middle East.
  8. 13. The holiest land for Muslims in the world.
  9. 15. Set of fundamentalist Islamic laws that is particularly harsh to women.
Down
  1. 1. Ruling group in Afghanistan.
  2. 4. Oil rich nation that was once led by Saddam Hussein for decades.
  3. 6. In Islam it means "to struggle," but many in the West connect it with terrorism.
  4. 8. Movie based on the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
  5. 9. Religion in most of the Middle East.
  6. 10. Leader and dictator of Iraq until the end of the 2003 Iraq War.
  7. 14. Leader of al-qaeda and responsible for planning and funding the 9/11 terrorist attacks.