Question | Answer |
had war with Iran (1980); invaded by U.S. in 2003 | Iraq |
was created out of Palestine; Jewish nation | Israel |
was once Ottoman Empire | Turkey |
started and lost 1967 war with Israel; it hurt their economy | Jordan |
only Turkey recognizes the northern 1/2 of this nation | Cyprus |
9/11 hijackers from there; big oil industry | Saudi Arabia |
center of P.L.O activities | Lebanon |
poorest nation in Arabian peninsula | Yemen |
good location on Mediterranean Seas, but recent Civil War is a mess | Syria |
growing problems with Israel and western world | Iran |
lifeless body of water; full of minerals | Dead Sea |
area divided up between Israel, Egypt, and Jordan | Palestine |
process that preserves water by letting precise amounts of water fall onto plants | drip irrigation |
P.L.O. stand for? | Palestinian Liberation Organization |
1977 Israel and Egypt peace agreement | Camp David Accords |
WMD stand for? | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
military codename for U.S. war vs. Iraq (1991) | Operation Desert Storm |
leader of Iraq until 2003 | Saddam Hussein |
why Israel is nervous about Iran today | Iran developing nuclear weapons |
who is Mahmad Amadinejad? | leader of Iran |
key resource in Middle East | oil |
process of removing salt from water | desalination |
2 million Muslims visit here each year | Mecca |
U.S. helped this nation in 1991 after Iraq invaded it | Kuwait |
O.P.E.C. stand for? | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
example of a Syrian city on Mediterranean with good farmland | Damascus |
led huge social changes (including women's rights) in Turkey | Mustafa Kemal |