Transcript Vocab Review ppt for SW Asia Conflicts

SS7H2
Vocabulary
Focus
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
• An empire that controlled
much of the Middle East (or
Southwest Asia).
Partitioning
Partitioning
• Dividing land that has been
• taken over into parts without
• thinking of the needs of the
• people living there.
Zionism
Zionism
• The feeling that the world’s
Jews deserved to return to a
homeland in Zion (Israel).
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism
• Hatred of the Jews simply
because they practice
the Jewish faith.
Holocaust
Holocaust
• A time when over six million
Jews were killed in
concentration camps set by
Germany.
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Desert Storm
•Another name for
the Persian Gulf war.
Persian Gulf War (19901991)
Persian Gulf War (19901991)
• Military force used to liberate Kuwait
from the Iraqi invasion in 1991; also
called Operation Desert Storm.
Afghanistan War (2001Present)
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Photo of Osama bin Laden
Afghanistan War (2001Present)
• U.S. military force was used because the Taliban
was offering safety to al-Qaeda, the organization
that attacked the United States on September 11,
2001.
Photo of Osama bin Laden
Iraqi War (2003-2011)
Iraqi War (2003-2011)
• An invasion led by the United
States in 2003 to stop the
development of nuclear
weapons by Iraq.