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MODERN MIDDLE EAST TEST REVIEW PACKET
Political Directions
Chapter 27 Section 1
Give the definition/goals for the following:
Pan-Arabism
Islamic
Fundamentalism
Why doesn’t Pan-Arabism work?
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Changing Economic and Social Patterns
Chapter 27 Section 2
Define:
Desalination
Describe:
Economic goals of
Middle Eastern
countries
How countries
expanded
agriculture
Social changes
urbanization has
brought to the
Middle East
Iran
Define:
Shah
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Theocracy
Identify each person’s goals for Iran and their attitude towards the U.S.
Goals for Iran
Attitude Towards western nations
Shah Pahlavi
Ayatollah
Khomeini
President
Rafsanjani
President
Ahmadinejad
What was the Islamic Revolution? Why did it happen? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
How was the U.S. involved?
Iraq
Conflict
Causes
Effects
Iran-Iraq War
Persian Gulf War
(a.k.a. Desert Storm)
Operation Iraqi
Freedom
Identify
Saddam
Hussein
Kurd
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OPEC
What does OPEC stand for?
Identify
Non-renewable
resource
Petroleum
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Where are most of the OPEC countries located?
How did the creation of OPEC increase the strength of its member countries?
Why is the world’s oil use increasing at a faster rate than the US’?
Afghanistan
Taliban
Al Qaeda
Osama bin
Laden
Why did Afghanistan dislike Western nations? What role did the Cold War play in this hatred?
Why did the US engage in Operation Enduring Freedom? How did the situation in Afghanistan change?
(What was it like, and what is it like now)
Arab-Israeli Conflict
(CH. 26 SEC. 4 AND CH. 28 SEC.2)
Identify
Diaspora
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Anti-Semitism
Zionism
Theodore
Hertzl
Balfour
Declaration
Palestine
Partition
Identify the cause of the following wars
War
1948 War
Cause
Suez War
Six Day
War
Yom Kippur
War
Reasons Arabs think land should be Palestine
Reasons Jewish people think land should be Israel
Identify
Camp David
Accords
Oslo Peace Accords
Palestinian
Liberation
Organization (PLO)
Refugee
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Intifada
Why is the US involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
Miscellaneous
Define:
“Western
Nations”
Imperialism
Nationalize
Spheres of
Influence
Who controlled most of the Middle East before WWI?
Who controlled much of the Middle East right after WWI?
What are some of the reasons for the Middle East’s dislike & distrust of Western nations?
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