History Middle East A-Z

An alphabet of OCR History Middle East A-Level terms, people, places.
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First name of Nasser's second in command who took over following his death in 1970 and became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in 1977.
Anwar Sadat
The Sunni muslim political group to which Saddam Hussein was a part of. They ruled Iraq from 1968 - 2003.
Baath Party
The country which Nasser's Egypt completed an arms deal with in 1955. This was seen as one of Egypt's first move in breaking away from Western control.
Czechoslovakia
Full name of the first Israeli Prime Ministe
David Ben-Gurion
In alphabetical order, the countries that Britain controlled in the Middle East directly after 1920 (According to textbook)
Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan
The king that France expelled from Syria in 1920 and who was subsequently made king of Iraq in 1921
Faisal
This was fought from January-March 1991 by coalition forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control
The First Gulf War
Jewish military group that became the IDF in May 1948
Haganah
The name for the Palestinian uprising that burst out of Gaza and the West Bank in 1987
Intifada
The river on which the West Bank region lies on. A middle eastern country takes its name from this river
Jordan River
Ayatollah who led Iran as the supreme leader from 1979 until his death in 1989
Khomeini
British major who aided the Arab Revolt in 1916 following the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence. Played by Peter O'Toole in a 1962 film
T. E. Lawrence
Islamic 'group of siblings' that were founded in 1928. Caused huge unrest in Syria in the late 1970s to early 1980s, culminating in the 1982 Hama massacre.
Muslim Brotherhood
Full name of the Prime Minister who issued the White Paper in 1939, limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine
Neville Chamberlain
The weapon used by Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states following Nixon's approval of $2.2 billion arms package to Israel in 1973
The Oil Weapon
Group formed in Cairo in 1964 with the aim of unifying refugees and winning back land
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
Group led by Osama bin Laden who orchestrated 9/11
al-Qaida
Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1995 following the peacemaking process with Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords
Yitzhak Rabin
This was finished in 1869 and the focal point of Anthony Eden's premiership
Suez Canal
Mustafa Ataturk led this country to become a republic and aimed to make them a secular state, the first in the Middle East
Turkey
Organisation that Count Bernadotte worked for when he was assassinated in 1948 after proposing a two-state solution
United Nations
Treaty that ended WW1 and which the Wafd Party of Egypt was allowed to attend, but by the time they arrived the USA had recognised British rule over Egypt
Treaty of Versailles
Zionist leader who worked hard to gain British support for a Jewish homeland resulting in the Balfour Declaration 1917. Also the first president of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Saddam Hussein's Halabja massacre (1988) could be seen as an ____________ of the Kurds
Extermination
Third Arab-Israeli war that occurred on this holy day in Judaism in 1973
Yom Kippur
Ideology that developed in the late 19th century that supports the development of a Jewish state
Zionism
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4 Comments
+4
Level 68
Jul 16, 2024
Interesting and challenging quiz. Could do with a few more type ins and maybe a bit more time.

Enjoyed it!

+1
Level 69
Jul 16, 2024
A bit more time would be greatly appreciated with the long questions and the need to look up how certain answers are transcriped into English ( e.g. Yom Kippur instead of Jom Kippur in German, Khomeini instead of Chomeini)
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Level 90
Jul 16, 2024
A: You ask for first name, but don't accept Anwar. Did you mean full name?

B: Any chance you could just accept "Baath" for "Baath Party?" The party is, well, a political party whereas your question just asks for a political group. The two aren't exactly the same thing.

E: I have no idea what textbook you are referring to here.

O: This feels like a very strange question/answer. I've certainly never heard it referred to as "the Oil Weapon" although I suppose that could be a term used in some places. But "Oil Embargo" I would argue is a much more common term, and heck, even "OPEC" could be argued to be a "weapon" used by KSA and the oil states in 1973.

X: But... "Extermination" doesn't begin with X? If you can't think of a good thing to put here (and to be fair I can't either) it might be better to just skip this letter. I didn't get it literally because I was looking for a word starting with X.

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Level 79
Jul 16, 2024
Quiz has a lot of potential but feels very much unfinished. Signing on to earlier critiques on questions. Also please add a column indicating letter, and indicating where the very first letter of the answer doesn't accord with the question (eg,

write "e____" for the X question, "al-____" for the Q question, etc.