Middle East Review                             5-13-04

                                           Chapter 37

1.     What is an obstacle to pan-Arabism in the Middle East?

2.     What generalizations can we make about Middle Eastern governments?

3.     What was the civil war in Lebanon about in the 1970’s and 1980’s?

4.     What are the goals of Islamic fundamentalism?

5.     What was a major goal of Arab socialism?

6.     What were the causes of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran?

7.     Why was Turkey of strategic importance to both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

8.     What was the major goal of OPEC?

9.     Why did the Iraq-Iran War take on global significance?

10. What did the Israelis and Palestinians agree to  in 1994?

11. How did the Cold War affect the Middle East?

12. What is a goal shared by Arab nationalists and Islamic fundamentalists?

13. How did the Shah of  Iran affect his country?

14. How did the Ayatollah Khomeini affect Iran?

16. What caused the Gulf War of 1991? 

15.  What were the results of the Persian-Gulf War?

16. What arguments did Jews and Arabs present to the United Nations in 1947 on 
the subject of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine?

 

17. In the Arab-Israeli conflict - explain what are the major stumbling blocks to peace from the point of view of an Israeli, and from the point of view of a Palestinian.

18. Why is Anwar Sadat, Nasser’s successor, important in Egyptian and Middle Eastern history?

19. How did Sadat's policies for Egypt differ from 
those of Nasser? What problems did Hosni Mubarak face?

20. Why was Palestine partitioned into 2 states in 1947 by the United Nations?

21. How might rapid modernization in the Middle East have contributed to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism?