7-10 The Arab – Israeli Conflict Name ______________________________

Legacy of the Great War

History 7 2004

Overall Purpose: Identify and describe the major events in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Explain the major problems precluding a settlement of this conflict.

Important Events:

135 Roman conquest of Jewish kingdom in Palestine

638 Arab conquest of Palestine

1500s Ottoman conquest of Palestine

1870s Russian and Romanian Jews begin small-scale settlement in Palestine

1886 Publication of Theodor Herzl’s The Jewish State

1914-1918 World War I, Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire

1915 Shariff Hussein proclaims Arab independence from the Ottoman Empire

1916 Balfour Declaration

1920 British mandate for Palestine established

1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Arab Riots against Jewish immigration, Report of the Peel Commission

1939 British White Paper limits Jewish Immigration

1939-1945 World War II, Six million Jews die in the Holocaust

1947 UN votes to partition Palestine

1948 Proclamation of the State of Israel

1948-1949 Israeli War of Independence (First Middle East War)

1952 Nasser seizes power in Egypt

1956 Sinai War (Second Middle East War)

1964 Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) formed

1967 Six Day War (Third Middle East War)

1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Middle East War)

1978 Camp David Accords

1981 Assassination of Anwar Sadat

1982-1985 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

1987 Intifada begins

1993 Oslo Agreement

1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

1999 Election of Ehud Barak

2000 Breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, Renewed Violence

2001 Election of Ariel Sharon

Study Questions and Terms:

Parts I-II

A) Describe the settlement of Palestine prior to the First World War.

B) Explain how British actions during World War I laid the seeds of the current Arab-Israeli conflict.

C) What action was taken in regard to Palestine after World War I?

D) Why did tensions increase dramatically between Arabs and Jews after 1933?

E) What effect did World War II have on the future of Palestine?

F) What action did the United Nations take in regard to Palestine in 1947? What was the result of this decision?

G) Explain the major effects of the following Middle East wars: 1948-49, 1956, 1967, and 1973.

1. Zionism

2. Lawrence of Arabia

3. Peel Commission

4. White Paper of 1939

5. Deir Yassin

6. Palestinian Liberation Organization

7. Sinai Peninsula

8. Gaza Strip

9. West Bank

Parts III-IV

H) What were the major agreements contained in the Camp David Accords (1978) and Oslo Agreement (1993)?

I) In what ways were Anwar al-Sadat and Yitzak Rabin similar?

J) How do Israel’s two major parties differ?

K) Why was the 1999 election victory of Ehud Barak considered a vindication of Rabin’s policies? Why was Barak unable to carry out his campaign promises?

L) What factors led to the outbreak of violence in the fall of 2000?

M) Describe the issues that still separate the Israelis and Palestinians.

10. Golan Heights

11. Knesset

12. intifada

13. Yasir Arafat

14. Hamas and Hezbollah

15. Benjamin Netanyahu

16. Ehud Barak

17. Ariel Sharon

18. security fence

19. road map

20. unilateral disengagement