1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Arab Israel Arab Israel Iraq Iran Afghanistan

2. Israeli's claims to the land

3. Holyland

4. Palestinian claims to the land

5. Homeland

6. supports the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine, but only if it didn’t threaten the rights of non-Jews

7. Balfour Declaration

8. the movement to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

9. Zionism

10. Arab countries invasion of Israel in response to Jewish declaration of independence

11. War of Independence

12. This country could not handle the problems of dividing Palestine between the Arabs and the Jewish after WWII

13. Great Britain

14. Israeli access to this prompted the Suez/Sinai War

15. Suez Canal

16. Egypt had cut off Israeli access to the Gulf of Aqaba prompting this war

17. Six Day War

18. This group has targeted Israel in recent times and the US has labeled them a terrorist group

19. Hamas

20. Egypt’s participation in this event led to its dismissal from the Arab League

21. Camp David Accords

22. Until 1932 the area of Iraq had been a _______ mandate

23. British

24. Socialist political group committed to Arab Nationalism in Iraq

25. Ba’ath Party

26. Saddam Hussein ________ his power by appointing family members and friends to key positions in gov’t and military

27. Consolidated

28. before the Iran/Iraq War Saddam was friendly to the _________.

29. Communist Bloc

30. Once in power Saddam will begin to have all opposition within the Ba’ath Party systematically __________.

31. Murdered

32. _______ supported the Kuwaitis and Iraqis during the Iran/Iraq War.

33. United States

34. UN inspection teams were in search of these in Iraq

35. Weapons of Mass Destruction

36. Saddam accused the Kuwaitis of this leading to his invasion of Kuwait

37. Slant Drilling

38. the goal of liberating Kuwait by Coalition Forces

39. Operation Desert Storm

40. Saddam used chemical weapons on this group in Northern Iraq during the Iran/Iraq War

41. Kurds

42. terrorist leader responsible for numerous attacks on the West

43. Osama Bin Ladin

44. The US embassy was stormed in this country taking 66 civilians hostage in 1979

45. Iran

46. Who the US supported during Iran's Islamic revolution

47. Shah

48. holy warriors or rebels who defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan

49. mujahideen

50. wanted control of Afghanistan to have access to this...

51. Indian Ocean