SWA History Unit Exam Review

What was the ultimate outcome of the UN partition Plan for Palestine?

• A Jewish nation was founded and occupies the territory designated for an Arab nation.

• The United Nations took control of Palestine and refused to grant the people independence

• A Jewish nation and an Arab nation were founded and remain independent of each other.

Who were the Zionists?

• Jewish communities that rose up against Ottoman control during WWI.

• Arab communities that rose up against Ottoman control during WWI.

• People who believed that Jewish people needed their own homeland for religious reasons.

What is one historical cause for the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli government?

• Both claim that they are descended from the Roman rulers of the land.

• Both claim that they were granted the same land in the Balfour Declaration.

• Both claim that God granted the same land to their people.

In the 2000's the United States invaded Afghanistan because the _____ government refused to turn Osama bin Laden to the U.S. government.

• Pakistan

• TALIBAN

• Telaviv

T/F: The United States involvement in the Gulf War was in response to Iraq's invasion of Afghanistan.

• True

• False: Iran

• False: Kuwait

T/F: France did NOT join the coalition and fight alongside the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

• True

• False: Great Britain

• False: Australia

T/F: The 1947 United Nations plan was to divide Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.

• True

• False: It was to create a Jewish state only.

• False: It was to create an Arab state only.

What was the code names for the US involvement in the Persian Gulf War?

• Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Steel Tiger

• Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

• Operation Tropic Thunder and Operation Tropical Punch

Iraq agreed to two terms at the end of the Persian Gulf War: Allow UN inspectors into Iraqi weapons factories and ...

• to surrender Osama bin Laden.

• to surrender Saddam Hussein to U.S. forces.

• to give up it's claim to Kuwait.

Which event led to the Persian Gulf War?

• Iraq invaded Kuwait.

• Iraq was defeated in the FIFA World Cup by Manchester United.

• Iran set Kuwait's oil fields on fire.

• The U.N. sabotaged Iraqi oil refineries.