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Understanding Middle Eastern Conflicts: Key Concepts and Historical Events

This review aims to refresh our understanding of key concepts and historical events in the study of Middle Eastern conflicts. Presented in a game format, it serves as an engaging way to recollect learning without competitive prizes. We will explore topics like the emergence of Hamas, the roots of the Gulf War, and the implications of monotheism in the region. Additionally, we’ll discuss common themes from Arab Spring protests, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and terrorism. Join us as we navigate through these pivotal issues that shape the Middle East today.

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Understanding Middle Eastern Conflicts: Key Concepts and Historical Events

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  1. Review Terms for the Test • This review is intended to spark recollection of what we learned in this unit. It is in a game format to break it up, not to establish a champion or award any prize money, keep this in mind as we go over this today. • But first, a little image interpretation

  2. What is this cartoon saying?

  3. Homegrown terrorist organization in Israel and “government” of the Gaza Strip

  4. Hamas

  5. What event started the Persian Gulf War?

  6. Saddam (Iraq) invades Kuwait over Oil

  7. What word means belief in one god?

  8. Monotheism

  9. He is the common relative to all three religions

  10. Abraham

  11. The Founder and final prophet of Islam…

  12. Mohammed

  13. 2 Common Themes between all Arab Spring Protestors (people) 2 parter

  14. Young/EducatedTwitter/Social MediaWanting Democracy Removal of Dictators

  15. The two things that Palestinians hate most are Checkpoints and …

  16. Settlements (remember Moishe and the “accidentally shooting an Arab” bit?)

  17. The former Islamist government of Afghanistan that wanted rule based on extreme Sharia Law

  18. The Taliban

  19. The most popular solution to the Arab Israeli Conflict

  20. Two different countries based on 1967 borders

  21. This was the reason we went to war in Iraq in 2003?

  22. WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction)

  23. This Leader of Syria may have used chemical weapons on his own people that protested his reign during the Arab Spring

  24. Bashar Al-Assad

  25. To use intimidation or violence to force change is the definition for…

  26. Terrorism

  27. This term refers to a person that dies for a cause.

  28. Martyr

  29. This group was formed to fix oil prices and avoid conflicts between Middle Eastern countries

  30. OPEC

  31. The Largest Terrorist Organization in the Middle East

  32. Al-Qaeda

  33. Holy city to three monotheistic religions and center of the Arab Israeli Conflict

  34. Jerusalem

  35. Reason we went to Afghanistan

  36. 9-11

  37. The declaration of faithPilgrimage to MeccaPray 5x a dayetc. All of these are associated with

  38. Islam

  39. *

  40. Saudi Arabia

  41. *

  42. Iran

  43. *

  44. Iraq

  45. Kuwait

  46. Israel

  47. Afghanistan

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