Can you name the notable events/leaders/landmarks of the modern Middle East Since 1900? by davepro14

Can you name the notable events/leaders/landmarks of the modern Middle East Since 1900?

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Can you identify major events, notable persons, and important landmarks relevant to the modern Middle East?
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Clue	Notable
Current Prime Minister of Israel
Natural Resource found in Iran in 1908
2009: US began pulling troops out of this country
Leader of PLO from 1969 to 2004
Initiated the Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran
Length of 1967 Israeli War that resulted in the 'Occupied Territories'
Holiday war of 1973: both sides declare victory
1930 report investigates settlement in Palestine
Control of this trade route led to 1956 war.
System created after WW1 whereby Europeans aimed to prepare Arab nations for self-government.
Religious leader of 1979 Iranian Revolution
War hero a founder of the Republic of Turkey
Leader of the first Zionist Congress
Remnant of the second temple of Jerusalem.
Date of Israeli Independence
Empire of the Middle East through early 1900s
600,000 people fled Israel in 1948 creating massive...
Country that invaded Iraq in 2003
International body that decided to partition Palestine in 1947
Winner of Arab-Israeli War of 1948
Iraq invaded this country in 1990.
1 of the 3 Countries ceding the 'Occupied Territories' to Israel
Group of reformers that restored Turkish Constitution in 1908
British Declaration of 1917 supporting Jewish homeland in Palestine
Movement to create a national home for Jews

Clue	Notable
Current Palestinian Authority Leader
Secretive UK-France treaty of 1916.
Obama addressed the Islamic world from this city (June 2009)
Founder of Al-Qaeda and 9/11 mastermind
Iranian Dynasty that ended in 1925
1993 treaty that created the Palestinian National Authority
1st Prime Minister of Israel
1 of the 2 main countries dividing up Middle East after WW1
International body created after WW1
President that launched an attack on Iran in 1980
Location of PLO headquarters in 1982
1950s Egyptian leader promoted Pan-Arabism
Location of the Ka'aba Stone (city)
UN resolution declares Jerusalem 'separate body'
Major Israeli leader fell into a coma in 2006
Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979?
Coalition of oil producing nations.
Rebel group that seized control of Kabul in 1996
Site of the Rock of Moriah.
Egyptian leader assassinated in 1981
Term for uprisings among PLO supporters inside Israel
1942 Declaration that made Zionist goals explicit (hint: NYC)
2nd Intifada sparked by an Israeli leader's visit to this mosque
1978 Agreement between Israel & Egypt moderated by Carter
Site of pivotal 1948 massacre where over 100 Arabs were killed.

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Modern Middle East Quiz

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Created Jan 4, 2010 in History
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	davepro14:	Jan 4th, 2010 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for taking my quiz! If anything needs cleaning up, please let me know!

	nyanks02j:	Jan 4th, 2010 at 21:29 GMT	1 point
	can you accept mustafa kemal?

	davepro14:	Jan 5th, 2010 at 02:25 GMT	1 point
	Done!

	gelnika:	Jan 5th, 2010 at 15:05 GMT	5 points
	A good quiz - it's done well. Just a few minor corrections. Khomeini wasn't the "first Ayatollah of Iran" - an ayatollah is a senior religious leader, and there have been hundreds of ayatollahs before Khomeini. "First Ayatollah to rule Iran" would be better. Arafat wasn't the first leader of the PLO - Ahmed Shuqayri was. Arafat took over the chairman's role of the Executive Committee in 1969. "Leader of PLO from 1969 to 2004" would be better. The Camp David Accords were in 1978, not 1979 - the formal Egypt-Israel peace deal was 1979, but that's different from Camp David. The UN didn't take "control" of Palestine in 1947 - the British handed authority to the UN General Assembly to make a decision about Palestine's future. Maybe "International body that decided to partition Palestine in 1947" -? "UN General Assembly Resolution 181" would be more accurate than just "UN Resolution 181" - there are lots of things that could pass for "UN Resolution 181", depending on the UN body that issues them Also, I think the questions that lead to the answers "refugee" and "League of Nations" aren't really needed here, as they're not about the Middle East. Sorry for long comment - I like the quiz, really!

	davepro14:	Jan 5th, 2010 at 17:16 GMT	1 point
	Thanks gelnika - I appreciate the comments! Getting the wording just right for several of these was a bit of a challenge. I like what you have crafted and appreciate it. Several were obvious hiccups, so it was helpful to have an extra set of eyes catch them. I changed the "refugee" question in the sense that I do not want the camps overlooked. As for the League of Nations, ultimately it administered the mandate by which areas of the old Ottoman Empire would be ruled until they were able to govern themselves. While I do have a question that focuses on "mandates" I still felt it necessary to mention the League. In any case, much appreciated comments again. Changes are made!

	thefeintinggoat:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 05:44 GMT	2 points
	First off, great quiz. Second, just a few minor suggestions to make it a bit more streamlined. Might consider accepting "Six Day(s)" as well as "6 days", and "petroleum" in addition to "oil."

	davepro14:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 14:05 GMT	1 point
	@thefeintinggoat - Thanks for the suggestions. Consider it done!

	Pit_trout:	Jan 13th, 2010 at 04:02 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz, though quite difficult! Maybe accept "Yasser Arafat" as well as "Yassir" - I've lived in both the UK and USA and have seen "Yasser" used more often, I think. (E.g. the Wikipedia article uses "Yasser".)

	mellybmel:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 02:43 GMT	2 points
	Nicely done! Covers a lot of important history and just the right level of challenge. I was a bit frustrated that the quiz didn't take 'statelessness' or 'refugees' for 'refugee camps,' but I see what you mean.

	Mayan:	Jan 18th, 2010 at 15:48 GMT	1 point
	I liked it a lot - very challenging. I would strongly suggest requiring answers in order though.

	Grawk:	Jan 18th, 2010 at 19:43 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! My only nitpick is that Afghanistan isn't really a part of the middle east.

	Sepa:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 20:50 GMT	3 points
	Excellent Quiz

	carbon_rod:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 01:54 GMT	2 points
	Should change the word "ceding" in the question about the Occupied Territories to something like "yielding". The act of ceding requires you to have title to it in the first place (as it is formally transferring ownership); they didn't own the land (Jordan's annexation of the West Bank was generally unrecognized) and they definitely didn't transfer title to Israel. It was more one group of occupiers being replaced by another group.