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LCA266 Study Guide Questions and Revised Answers All Correct What were threats to the consolidation of Husayn's rule over Jordan? - Answer- -Nasserism -Breaking ties with Britain and turning to Pan-Arabism -Demands from the Palestinian majority within Jordan What best explains Nasser's actio...

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What were threats to the consolidation of Husayn's rule over Jordan? - Answer- -
Nasserism
-Breaking ties with Britain and turning to Pan-Arabism
-Demands from the Palestinian majority within Jordan

What best explains Nasser's actions in the lead-up to the 1967 war? - Answer- Nasser
saw an opportunity to further play up his image as the leadr of Pan-Arabism, and failed
to realize how much the situation would spiral out of his control

What accurately describes the aftermath of the June War? - Answer- -The UN Security
Council Resolution 242 failed to provide a basis for a comprehensive peace settlement
-Israel, Jordan, and Egypt all agreed to UN Security Council Resolution 242
-New Palestinian military and politcal organizations rose to prominence

Did Arab nationalists--such as those within Syria's Ba'thist Party--hope to unify all Arab
countries into one state? - Answer- True

In 1970 , did the US' Rogers Plan help bring to an end the war of attrition between
Egypt and Israel? - Answer- True

In 1970, did a defeated Nasser committ suicide? - Answer- False

To restore Egypt's air force and armor to prewar levels, did Egypt become completely
dependent on the Soviety Union for its military survival after 1967? - Answer- True

In Lebanon, politics were dominated by established families from which a politcal boss,
or _________, emerged. - Answer- Za'im

In the 1960s, the three most powerful Arab states, Egypt, Syria, and _______ refuesd
participation within the Western alliance, choosing instead to enter into econmic and
military agreements with the Soviety Union - Answer- Iraq

In an effort to reclaim ______ in 1969, Nasser launced a war of attrition, which largely
consisted of Israel and Egypt shelling one another with deadly airstrikes. - Answer-
Egyptian Pride

Levi Eshkol was the leader of ________ during 1967 - Answer- Israel

, When Saudi Arabia viewed the Iranian revolution of 1979 as a major threat, which
power supplied arms to the kingdom? - Answer- The United States

What is true of the seizure of the Grand Mosque of Mecca in 1979? - Answer- -The man
who led the seizur, Juhayman al-Utaybi, was inspired by Wahhabi doctrine
-Al-Utaybi and his followers broadccast accusations of corruption against the Saudi
governmnt and the ulama
-The incident revealed the vulnrability of the royal family to charges of impiety

Kuwait's "oil age" can be characterized by what changes to the state? - Answer- -The
reliance on imported labor
-The creation of a welfare state
-Its new role as a player in Middle Eastern diplomacy

Where does political power in the Arabian Peninsula sates rest? - Answer- Hereditary
dynasties

Which countries obtained formal independence in 1971? - Answer- -the UAE
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-Bahrain

Particularly in the 1970s, the development boom among states in the Arabian Peninsula
was alrgely fueled by _______. - Answer- Oil revenues

The al-Sabah ruling family was prominent in which Arabian Peninsula state? - Answer-
Kuwait

What most accurately describes the circumstances allowing for King Faysal's ascent to
power? - Answer- King Sa'ud was desposed because his financial irresposniblity drove
Saudi Arabia to the brink of bankruptcy

Southern Yemen had been a protectorate of which imperial power? - Answer- Britain

Who received generous Saudi aid in return for muting their criticism of the kingdom and
its ties to the US? - Answer- Syria and the PLO

What most accurately describes the outcome of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of
1913? - Answer- When the Ottomans allied with Germany in WWI, Britain considered
the 1913 convention to be invalidated and proclaimed Kuwait an independent
principality under British protection

What Gulf state is neither predominantly Sunni or Shi'a? - Answer- Oman

Which state ceased to be ruled by a single monarchical family after the 1960s? -
Answer- Yemen

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