Social Studies

Government structure in which power is held by one central authority

Government in which authority is held by single heredity ruler, such as a king.

A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them through free elections.

Government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature

The real executive power is vested in cabinet composed of of the legislature who are responsible to the legislature

Person who is head of state of several countries as a representative democracy.

The political movement of the Kurdish people with intention of gaining their own homeland or country

Believe Mohammed had designated Ali as his successor

Believe Mohammed did not appoint a successor and appoint one themselves

A plan by Adolf Hitler and this Nazi party to murder Jews

Prejudice or hostility toward Jews

Movement to create a Jewish State or Country

Country placed under control of another power by international agreement

To divide up a piece of land into separate portions for different ethnic or religious groups

Arabs who live in the region occupied by Israeli, they fight for independence.

Series of wars that took place between 1948-1973 between Israel and Arab Countries.

Invasion of Iraq by US Forces in 2003

The war that took place in 1991 between the US and Iraq

War that started in 2001 that was triggered by the attacks on US soil on 9/11/2001.