Post World War 2 Middle East

Question 1

Soviet Union Breaks apart

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Collapse of Communism

Question 2

Former British mandate divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt; also known as the Holy Land.

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Palestine

Question 3

Policy of USSR, stressing openness in dealing with other nations and between people(Freedoms)

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Glasnost

Question 4

Muslims who regard earlier times favorably and seek to return to the fundamentals of the Islam

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Islamic Fundamentalism

Question 5

Mountainous area owned by Syria until the 1967, Israel and the UN occupy the area currently.

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Golan Heights

Question 6

Wall erected by East Germany to stop defection of East German citizens to the west, c. 1961.

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Berlin Wall

Question 7

What did the Hammer and sickle represent of the former flag of the USSR?

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Workers and Farmers(Proletariat)

Question 8

An area of land west of the Jordan River controlled by Israel

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West Bank

Question 9

President of Russia who won elections in 2000 and in 2012; former KGB agent.

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Putin

Question 10

1979 overthrow of Shah Reza Pahlavi by the fundamentalist Muslim leader, Ayatollah Khomeini,

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Iranian Revolution

Question 11

The economic plan of that looked toward decentralized planning and capitalism.

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Perestroika

Question 12

political movement aimed at the re-establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.

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Zionism

Question 13

Ancient Middle East land of Hebrews. The modern-day state formed after WW2 as a Jewish state.

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Israel

Question 14

. It promised that a national home for the Jewish people would be established in Palestine.

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Balfour Declaration

Question 15

Contested coastal area that was once held by Israel, now under control of the Palestinians.

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Gaza Strip

Question 16

War against terror 2001-Current started in this country

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Afghanistan

Question 17

Last leader of the of the USSR. His reforms led to the end of the Cold War

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 18

Germany reunites after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the year?

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1989

Question 19

1990’s, first President of Russia following the collapse of the USSR.

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 20

Organization whose goal is obtain homeland for Palestinians, Yasir Arafat was famous leader

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PLO,Palestinian Liberation Organization

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