| A | B |
|---|
| ethnic group | A group of people having common characteristics such as language, religion, history, traditional stories, beliefs, and celebrations. |
| Taliban | A radical former government of Afghanistan. |
| refugee | A person who has to leave their home as a result of war. |
| Anti - Semitism | hatred of the Jews simply because they practiced the Jewish faith. |
| Zionism | A movement in the late 1800's that believed that Jews deserved to return to their homeland from Biblical times in Palestine called Zion. |
| Afghanistan | This country was invaded by the U.S. to try to capture the people responsible for 9/11. |
| The Gulf War | Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. |
| Israel | A new nation created in 1948 |
| The Ottoman Empire | On the losing side with Germany in WW1 |
| Sunni | The majority sect of the Muslims |
| Shia | The majority of the Muslims of Iran are this sect. |
| oil | The most important economic interest the U.S. has in the Middle East. |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | The U.S. invades Iraq in 2003 |
| Iraq | The U.S. has invaded this country twice in 1990 and 2003 |
| First Arab - Israeli War | fought in 1948 and won by Israel |
