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In the Middle East people are called

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Nomads - Bedouins

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What does philistines and Phoenicians speak ?

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Arabic

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What does Hebrews speak ?

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Hebrew

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Diaspora

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Spreading out

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How long does WWI last ?

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From 1914-1918

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Who carved up the Middle East ?

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British and French colonies

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What are the other two names for Great Britain?

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British and the United Kingdom

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What is the main land ?

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Palestine

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Who takes the main land

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British

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Who set up a new country called Iraq ?

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Great Britain

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What three ethnic groups did Great Britain put in Iraq

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Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds

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Why is it bad that Great Britain put Shia, Sunni, and the Kurds together in one country ?

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Because they all hate each other

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Who has deep water ports ?

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Kuwait

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Why did British take the state Kuwait

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So they could strip the oil out of Kuwait and transport it to Britain

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What does Bp stand for ?

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British Petroleum

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Why did Britain create Iraq with these 3 groups that hate each other ?

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British wanted Iraq to be dysfunctional so they could take the oil from Kuwait and transport it to Great Britain. They more so wanted the 3 ethnic groups to not be in their right state of mind

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How long does WWII last ?

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1939-1945

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How many people were killed in the holocaust ?

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12 million people

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How many Jews die ?

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6 million

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Who was Hitlers main target ?

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Jewish

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Who creates a country called Israel (Palestine) for the Jews in 1948 ?

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Britain and the United States

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Who attacks the New Jewish Israel ?

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Palestinian Arabs

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Who helped the Jewish win against the Palestinian Arabs ?

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United States

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Zionism

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When Jewish people have their own country

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What is isreals spy group called ?
Mossad
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What is a Mossad ?
Better version of CIA (central intelligence Agency)
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Who does Mossad spy on ?
Their neighbors
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Who has the best spy group ?
Isreal
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Who found out certain countries were against isreal
Mossad
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Which countries where against isreal ?
Egypt, Syria, and Iraq
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What does isreal decide to do before the countries Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attack them ?
Isreal pre-Emptive strike Egypt, Syria, and Iraq
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What year did isreal strike Egypt, Syria and Iraq ? How many days was it ?
1967. It was a 6 day war
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What is the three reasons isreal won ?
U.S. Weapons, Mossad, and surprising them
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What 3 places does isreal Occopies ?
Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and West Bank
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Why does isreal give back Golan heights ?
To make the place "neutral"
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How long has isreal Occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank ?
1967- today
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What city is in West Bank ?
Jerusalem
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Who controls the dome of the rock ?
Israelites
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Who pays for the occupation of Israel ?
U.S. Tax payers
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What is censorship?
Filtering
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What are the guidelines for censorship in isreal ?
- take no videos - submit to a censor (person) - censor can tell you to delete it or keep it
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Slow transfer
Pushing Palestinian groups out of the country
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Who controls the Islamic Palestinian Arabs ? Where ?
Jewish Israelites soldiers. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
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Yasser Arafat
Leader of PLO
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What are the 4 things that happens to to the Islamic Palestinian Arabs ?
A. Economic Strangulation B. Jewish Settlements C. Destroying Palestinians D. No support system
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Economic Strangulation
Cutt off ability to feed themselves and jobs. 700,000 refugees. Close check points so they can go to work.
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Jewish Settlements
Housings, if they don't have the paper work to claim the land. They can't have their land back that they had.
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Destroying Palestinians property
Isreal bulldozed Palestinian Arabs home
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Support system
Jewish Israelite soldiers do not support sanitation or health care
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Infatia
Uprisings in occupied territory
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How many Jews moved to Palestinian
14,000
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When was the Gulf War ?
1990
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Who invades Kuwait ? Who did they take it from ?
Iraq (Saddam Hussain). The British
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What is the guys name that leads Iraqs PLO?
Saddam Hussain
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What did Saddam Hussain start out as ?
An assassin
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Assassin
Kills people for a living
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Saddam Hussain eliminates
His physical apponents
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Saddam Hussain rules Iraq by being
Controlling
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Where does half of the worlds oil go through ?
Persian Gulf
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What number president was was George Herbert Walker Bush ?
41st president
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Who started something called the coalition?
George H Bush
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What was the coalition?
George H Bush got U.S. And 25 other countries to commit not to send troops to Kuwait
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Coalition
A group
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Who is Norman Swartzkuptf ?
A general
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Norman Schwarzkopf has an idea that we should use a
Desert shield
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What are they shielding ?
The Persian Gulf
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What is Schwarzkopf IQ ?
170
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The Persian Gulf is pumping oil through where ?
Saudi Arabia
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Who shields Saudi Arabia and Parisian Gulf so we can take the oil from Kuwait ?
United States
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Who has troops in turkey ?
United States
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What did general Schwarzkopf use to defeat Iraq ?
Something called Blitzkreiy
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Define blitz kreiy
A combination of air, tank, and infantry
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What kind of bombs does U.S. use to defeat Iraq
F-15 and B-52's
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What does the F-15's use ?
A smart bomb
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What is a smart bomb
A smart bomb is a computer chip in the bomb (kind of like a gps) to make sure it the bomb hits where it's supposed to
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Name 2 other smart bombs
Tuma hawk missile and Patriot missile
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What kind of missile did we use that's 4 letters ?
``` I-Inter C-continental B-ballistic M-missile The ICBM ```
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How many days did it take U.S. To launch the air attack ?
41 days
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What is the name of the best tank U.S. Ever made ?
Abrahams Tank
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How many feet in the air does the ICBM missile go ?
50,000 feet in the air
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What is the name or the killing package?
Apache helicopters
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What flys on top of Abrahams tank ?
Apache helicopters
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How many U.S. Troops fought to defeat Iraq ?
400,000 troops
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How many coalition troops fought to defeat Iraq ?
100,000 troops
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How many countries participated in to defeat Iraq and take the oil ?
25-28 countries
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What was the main goal out of all of the cautious going on around Iraq ?
The goal was to liberate Kuwait
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How many hours did it take to liberate Kuwait ?
100 hours
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Liberate
Release from a state or situation
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Who decided that they didn't want urban war ?
United States.
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Where did United States stop after they said they didn't want urban war ?
Baghdad
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How long is Saddam Hussain in power ?
1991-current
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What is a martyr ?
Someone who does something for a good cause
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What does Martyrs become?
Suicide bombers
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Who are martyrs dying for ?
Jihad
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What are the Martyrs sacrificing their living for ?
Their religion
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Who is telling the people to martyr themselves?
Clerk
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Why are the people proud that their family is giving up their life ?
Your supposed to be proud that your family is giving up their life for their religion
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What does the suicide bombers believe?
72 virgins are waiting on them in heaven if they blow themselves up
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Highway to hell
Blow anything up
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What 3 free things does Kuwait have ?
Free medical, free education, and free phone service
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What does most people in Kuwait DO NOT do ?
Work
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How much oil did Saddam Hussain steal ?
2. Billion worth of oil
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What will happen if U.S. invade Kuwait?
We will get into deeper arguments with Kuwait
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Vital interest
Code word for oil

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