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| Predominant religion of North Africa |
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| Leader of Libya who took power in 1969 |
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| The U.S. government has often accused Libya of promoting this. |
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| Algeria represented this country in 1980 hostage negotiations. |
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| Morocco's form of government |
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| Morocco's ruler from 1961 to 1999 |
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| Egypt's first democratically elected leader |
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| Gigantic dam built to increase Egyptian farmland |
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| Waterway nationalized by Nasser |
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| North African country bombed by the United States in 1986 |
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| Nasser's successor in Egypt |
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| Two European nations that invaded Egypt in the Canal crisis of 1956 |
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| Leader who became an Arab hero during the Canal crisis |
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| a constitutional monarchy |
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| Libya's form of government from independence until 1969 |
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| North African country; site of guerrilla war against France |
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| the SAO (Secret Army Organization) |
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| Extremist French group that resisted Algerian independence |
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| Ben Bella, Boumediene, and Bendjedid |
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| Algeria's three "B" post-independence leaders |
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| The first U.S. president to visit Egypt |
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| Sadat's successor in Egypt |
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| Ancient name of the land disputed by Jews and Arabs |
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| Reaction of Arabs to Israel's independence |
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| the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) |
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| Arab group that seeks to establish an Arab state in Palestine |
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| Longtime leader of the PLO |
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| Status of most Arabs who left Israeli Palestine after its 1948 independence |
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| Coastal area seized from Egypt by Israel in a 1956 invasion |
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| Egyptian territory between Israel and the Suez Canal |
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| Organization that divided Palestine into Arab and Jewish states |
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| Term for the Palestinian uprising in Israeli-occupied territories |
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| the Suez Canal and/or the Gulf of Aqaba |
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| Waterway Egypt closed to Israel |
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| Short Arab-Israeli war of 1967 |
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| the West Bank (or Gaza Strip) |
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| Arab residents of this Israeli-held territory began angry demonstrations in 1987. |
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| War that broke out on the Jewish high holy day in 1973 |
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| Egyptian and Israeli leaders who agreed to peace |
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| U.S. president who brought Egyptian and Israeli leaders together |
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| Hard-line Israeli prime minister who took office in 2001 |
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| Eastern (Arab) Palestine became part of this country. |
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| High land in Syria seized by Israel in 1967 |
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| The Arab-Israeli Oslo agreement of 1993 allowed some of this. |
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| Term for the Egypt-Israel peace agreements |
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| Israel invaded this country in 1982 to wipe out PLO bases. |
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| Country that abandoned its ties with West Bank Palestinians in 1988 |
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| Joint winners of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize |
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| Scarce Middle East natural resource |
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| Opposing groups in Lebanon's civil war |
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| the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
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| Iran's fundamentalist government leader; died in 1989 |
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| Capital of Lebanon, largely destroyed by the civil war |
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| Leader of Iraq who began ruling in 1979 |
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| Country that sent troops into Lebanon to help restore order |
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| Country that experienced an Islamic revolution in 1979 |
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| Countries that started an eight-year war in 1980 |
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| Many U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by this kind of attack in 1983. |
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| the socialist party (Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party) |
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| Union to promote Arab cooperation |
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| Warfare broke out between this group and the Jordanian government in 1970. |
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| Jordan's king from 1952 to 1999 |
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| Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974 |
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| Ethnic group in northern Iraq, target of government attacks |
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| Moderate Iranian president elected in 1997 |
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| Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria |
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| Arab states that gained independence in the 1940s |
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| Israel's first prime minister |
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| He became Syria's president in 1971. |
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| Iraq's type of government when it became independent |
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| Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon |
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| Israel's four major party leaders between 1992 and 2001 |
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| Middle Eastern leaders who turned away from westernization and to the Sharia (Muslim Laws) |
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| OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) |
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| The association of oil-producing countries |
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| to raise the price of oil (by reducing production) |
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| OPEC's policy duing the 1970s |
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| Country that has one fifth of the world's oil reserves |
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| Body of water where oil shipping is concentrated |
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| Iranian pilgrims rioted in this holy city in the 1980s |
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| The United States protected tankers in this body of water in the 1980s. |
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| War waged in 1991 by a U.N.-backed coalition |
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| Country invaded by Iraq in 1990 |
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| Abu Dhabi, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait |
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| Four countries that have one tenth of the world's oil reserves |
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| Saudi king assassinated in 1975 |
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| Country that sold antiaircraft missiles to Saudi Arabia |
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| Body of water that borders the southeastern end of the Arabian Peninsula |
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| Gulf at the southern end of the Persian Gulf |
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| Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE |
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| The seven Arab members of OPEC |
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| Pro-Western Saudi leader; he became king in 1982 |
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| Independent sheikdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf |
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| Thousand-mile-long country ruled by a sultan |
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| "Country, ruled by a sheik, that occupies a small Persian Gulf peninsula" |
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| Loose federation of sheikdoms |
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| New nation formed in 1990 when two states that shared the same name merged |
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