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Second
Midterm
Directions:
Select one of the following questions and answer as fully as possible. The
question is due, as well as the rest of the written assignments on Monday during
final week.
- What role did Mustafa Kemal play in the birth of modern
Turkey? What changes did Kemal institute in Turkey? Did his changes bring
meaningful reform to Turkey? What remains of
Atturk’s legacy today?
- How could the Turks commit the massacre of the
Armenians? What was their rationale for committing this
crime? What was the long-term impact of the first genocide of the
twentieth century?
- Why did the Jews of Europe seek a homeland of their own?
What was the impact of the Balfour Declaration on Palestine? Who did the
British ultimately favor during the growing tensions in the region?
- How did the Jews in Palestine respond to the growing
level of Arab violence and British indifference in the region?
- How did the early Israelis employ the use of terrorism
in order to achieve a homeland in the Middle East?
- Why was it so difficult to achieve peace in Palestine
from 1948 through 1967? Why did the Arabs fail to achieve their ultimate
objective of destroying the Jewish state? What accounts for the victory of
Israel over the Arab coalition in 1967?
- How did the Yom Kippur War in 1973
happen? What was Egypt's goal? Why were the Israeli's caught off guard? What
was the long term consequences of that conflict concerning the Arab-Israeli
relations?
- The Iranian Revolution in 1979
changed the dynamics of power in the Middle East. Why did it happen? Why did
the West, including the United States, did not foresee the events that
transpired in Iran in the middle 1970s that culminated in the coming of the
Ayatollah Khomeini? Why was Washington so blind?
- Terrorism is a major concern
throughout the world. What are the factors that explain the explosion of
religious-based terrorism in the Middle East? How has the terrorist
organizations that originated in the regions expanded their influence into
Southeast Asia as well as Central Asia? Why did Afghanistan become a bastion
for Al-Qaeda in the 1990s? What part did the United States, Pakistan, and
Saudi Arabia play in that tragedy?
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