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MiddleEastVocab
MiddleEastVocab Game
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mandate | A country placed under the control of another power by international agreement. |
| partition | To divide a region into smaller parts. |
| Palestine | An Arab region that was a land that Jews have lived 2,000 years ago.Is also called the Holy Land. |
| Holocaust | The killing of millions of Jews in Europe by Hitler and the Nazis during World War 2. |
| Law of Return | A law enactted in 1950 in Israel granting Jews anywhere permission to return to Israeland become a citizen. |
| fundamentalism | Belief that religios rules should be strictly observed. |
| Zionism | A movement that encouraged Jews to return to Palestine there homeland which thet called Zion. |
| palestinian | People who lived in Palestine a stateless nation. |
| Israeli | A person who is a inhabidant or is a native of Israel. |
| Persian Gulf War | A 1991 war between the Us and Iraq becuase iraq invaded Kuwaait. |
| Invasion of Afgahnistan | October 2001,the United States began bombing Taliban centers in Afgahnistan in response to the attack September 11,2001 of the World Trade Center. |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | The Us with the help of Britan Australia and other countrys invaded Iraq because they beileved Saddam Hussien the ruler of Iraq hid dangerous weapons. |
| Iran Iraq Wars | War between Iran and Iraq that lasted 8 years that started when Saddam Hussien invaded Iran in 1980 |
| West Bank | An area on the west bank of the Jordan river, where Palestinians live. |
| Gaza Strip | A small area of land on the western coast of Israel where Palestineans live. |
| refugee | A person who lives there country because of persucution,war or disaster. |
| Arab | An ethnic group of people who live on or once lived on he Arabian Peninsula. |
| Taliban | A group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan gov. |
| PLO | The palestinian Liberation Organization formed in 1964 by palestinians who refused to reconized Israels right to exist. |
| Stateless nation | A ggroup of people who have strong nationalistic feelings but do not have a country of there own. |
| Anti Semitism | predujude toward or hatred of Jews. |
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