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North Africa and the Middle East: Tensions and Conflict
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History
10th Grade
04/08/2007

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Islam
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Predominant religion of North Africa
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Muammar al-Qaddafi
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Leader of Libya who took power in 1969
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oil production
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Basis of Libya's economy
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terrorism
Definition
The U.S. government has often accused Libya of promoting this.
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Iran
Definition
Algeria represented this country in 1980 hostage negotiations.
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a kingdom
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Morocco's form of government
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King Hassan II
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Morocco's ruler from 1961 to 1999
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Egypt's first democratically elected leader
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the Aswan High Dam
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Gigantic dam built to increase Egyptian farmland
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the Suez Canal
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Waterway nationalized by Nasser
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Libya
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North African country bombed by the United States in 1986
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Anwar el-Sadat
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Nasser's successor in Egypt
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assassination
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Sadat's fate
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Great Britain and France
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Two European nations that invaded Egypt in the Canal crisis of 1956
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Nasser
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Leader who became an Arab hero during the Canal crisis
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a constitutional monarchy
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Libya's form of government from independence until 1969
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Algeria
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North African country; site of guerrilla war against France
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the SAO (Secret Army Organization)
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Extremist French group that resisted Algerian independence
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Ben Bella, Boumediene, and Bendjedid
Definition
Algeria's three "B" post-independence leaders
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the United Arab Republic
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Union of Egypt and Syria
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Richard Nixon
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The first U.S. president to visit Egypt
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Hosni Mubarak
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Sadat's successor in Egypt
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Haile Selassie
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Ethiopia's last emperor
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Palestine
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Ancient name of the land disputed by Jews and Arabs
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war
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Reaction of Arabs to Israel's independence
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the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
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Arab group that seeks to establish an Arab state in Palestine
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Yasir Arafat
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Longtime leader of the PLO
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refugee
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Status of most Arabs who left Israeli Palestine after its 1948 independence
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the Gaza Strip
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Coastal area seized from Egypt by Israel in a 1956 invasion
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the Sinai Peninsula
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Egyptian territory between Israel and the Suez Canal
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the United Nations
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Organization that divided Palestine into Arab and Jewish states
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the intifada
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Term for the Palestinian uprising in Israeli-occupied territories
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the Suez Canal and/or the Gulf of Aqaba
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Waterway Egypt closed to Israel
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the Six-Day War
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Short Arab-Israeli war of 1967
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the West Bank (or Gaza Strip)
Definition
Arab residents of this Israeli-held territory began angry demonstrations in 1987.
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the Yom Kippur War
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War that broke out on the Jewish high holy day in 1973
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Sadat and Begin
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Egyptian and Israeli leaders who agreed to peace
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Jimmy Carter
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U.S. president who brought Egyptian and Israeli leaders together
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Ariel Sharon
Definition
Hard-line Israeli prime minister who took office in 2001
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Jordan
Definition
Eastern (Arab) Palestine became part of this country.
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the Golan Heights
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High land in Syria seized by Israel in 1967
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Palestinian self-rule
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The Arab-Israeli Oslo agreement of 1993 allowed some of this.
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the Camp David Accords
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Term for the Egypt-Israel peace agreements
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Lebanon
Definition
Israel invaded this country in 1982 to wipe out PLO bases.
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Jordan
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Country that abandoned its ties with West Bank Palestinians in 1988
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Arafat, Rabin, and Peres
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Joint winners of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
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a kibbutz
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Israeli collective farm
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water
Definition
Scarce Middle East natural resource
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Muslims and Christians
Definition
Opposing groups in Lebanon's civil war
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the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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Iran's fundamentalist government leader; died in 1989
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Beirut
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Capital of Lebanon, largely destroyed by the civil war
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Saddam Hussein
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Leader of Iraq who began ruling in 1979
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Syria
Definition
Country that sent troops into Lebanon to help restore order
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Iran
Definition
Country that experienced an Islamic revolution in 1979
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Iran and Iraq
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Countries that started an eight-year war in 1980
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a suicide bombing
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Many U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by this kind of attack in 1983.
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the socialist party (Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party)
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Ruling party of Iraq
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the Arab League
Definition
Union to promote Arab cooperation
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the Palestinians
Definition
Warfare broke out between this group and the Jordanian government in 1970.
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King Hussein
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Jordan's king from 1952 to 1999
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Golda Meir
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Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974
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the Kurds
Definition
Ethnic group in northern Iraq, target of government attacks
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Muhammad Khatami
Definition
Moderate Iranian president elected in 1997
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Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria
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Arab states that gained independence in the 1940s
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Chaim Weizmann
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Israel's first president
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David Ben-Gurion
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Israel's first prime minister
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Hafez al-Assad
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He became Syria's president in 1971.
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a kingdom (monarchy)
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Iraq's type of government when it became independent
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Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon
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Israel's four major party leaders between 1992 and 2001
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Islamic reformers
Definition
Middle Eastern leaders who turned away from westernization and to the Sharia (Muslim Laws)
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OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
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The association of oil-producing countries
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to raise the price of oil (by reducing production)
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OPEC's policy duing the 1970s
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Saudi Arabia
Definition
Country that has one fifth of the world's oil reserves
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the Persian Gulf
Definition
Body of water where oil shipping is concentrated
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Mecca
Definition
Iranian pilgrims rioted in this holy city in the 1980s
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the Persian Gulf
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The United States protected tankers in this body of water in the 1980s.
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the Persian Gulf War
Definition
War waged in 1991 by a U.N.-backed coalition
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Kuwait
Definition
Country invaded by Iraq in 1990
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Abu Dhabi, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait
Definition
Four countries that have one tenth of the world's oil reserves
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King Faisal
Definition
Saudi king assassinated in 1975
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the United States
Definition
Country that sold antiaircraft missiles to Saudi Arabia
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the Arabian Sea
Definition
Body of water that borders the southeastern end of the Arabian Peninsula
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the Gulf of Oman
Definition
Gulf at the southern end of the Persian Gulf
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Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
Definition
The seven Arab members of OPEC
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King Fahd
Definition
Pro-Western Saudi leader; he became king in 1982
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Bahrain
Definition
Independent sheikdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf
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Oman
Definition
Thousand-mile-long country ruled by a sultan
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Qatar
Definition
"Country, ruled by a sheik, that occupies a small Persian Gulf peninsula"
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the United Arab Emirates
Definition
Loose federation of sheikdoms
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(the Republic of) Yemen
Definition
New nation formed in 1990 when two states that shared the same name merged
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