Unit 2 Checkpoint 4 Notes

Unit 2: Middle East

Checkpoint 4: Israel and Palestine

Creation of Israel

●Israel became a country in 1948

○Before 1948 it was known as Palestine

●Israel today has a Jewish government

○Palestine was largely Muslim

●Today, both Israel and Palestine claim
ownership of the land

○Israeli government is in control

Creation of Israel

Zionism

●Idea promoted by Theodor Hertzl in late 1800s

●“Zion” is a Hebrew term meaning Jerusalem

●Movement that sought to establish a country for Jews in Israel
○Between 1892-1903 35,000 Jews migrated
to the Jerusalem area

Open Ended

How did the Zionist Movement affect Jews around the world?

Creation of Israel

●After WWI, Britain issued the Mandate
for Palestine in 1923

○This document established Britain’s
responsibility to create a Jewish country in Palestine.

●Between 1923-1948 millions of Jews from all
around the world migrated to Palestine.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts

●1948 Arab-Israeli War

○Jews declare the state of Israel

○Palestinians and neighboring Arabs
attack

○Israel won

■Israel increases by 50%

■750,000 Palestinians are
forced to flee their homes

Multiple Select

What were the impacts of the Mandate for Palestine?

• Jews declared the state of Israel as their own

• Muslims declared the state of Israel as their own

• Millions of Jews immigrated to the Jerusalem region

• Palestine and Israel coexisted peacefully

Israeli-Palestinian
Conflicts

●“Six Day War” of 1967

○Arab countries equipped by Soviets

○Israel wins and gains

■Golan Heights

■West Bank

■Sinai Peninsula

■Old Jerusalem

PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)

●Formed in 1964 to push for the creation of a
Palestinian state that would include Israel

●Yasser Arafat becomes chairman of PLO in
1969

○Responsible for numerous terrorist attacks
carried out against Israel.

●Intifada

○Translates to “uprising”

○Palestinian protests of Israeli government
1990s-2000s

Open Ended

How do you think the Israel Palestine conflict affects the Middle East today?