History of the Modern Middle East, Review Pg 2

How was Israel created?

• Great Britain partitioned Syria
• Israel invaded Palestine
• United Nations partitioned Palestine

How did Palestine’s Arab neighbors feel about Israel?

• They helped build walls around Israel
• They immediately began trading with Israel
• They refused to recognize Israel as a nation

What did Palestine’s neighbors do when Israel declared itself a nation?

• Declared war
• Opened embassies in Israel
• Opened trade negotiations

What impact did the end of the 1948 war have on Israel’s neighbors?

• Hundreds of thousands of Israeli refugees fled to Jordan

• Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees came to Palestine

• Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees went to neighboring nations

What happened every time Israel’s neighbors attacked Israel?

• Israel lost the war and lost land
• The Arab nations lost, and Palestine lost land
• The Arab nations won, and Israel lost land

What led to increased pressures to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

• The increasingly Islamic extremist rhetoric as a result of WWII

• A need for a place to resettle European Jewish refugees as a result of WWII & the Holocaust

• Pressures from world leaders to remove Jewish people from their countries as a result of Antisemitism

• The belief in the right of self determination as a result of the Truman Doctrine

_______________ created the area known as Palestine into two states. One for the Jews and one for the Arab Palestinians.

• The League of Nations

• The Treaty of Paris

• The 1947 UN Mandate

• Balfour Declaration

Israel gained Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank & the Gaza Strip as a result of which of the following? 

• WWI
• WWII
• Six-Day War
• Yom Kippur War

What did the UN Partition Plan call for? 

• a Jewish state
• an Arab state
• Jerusalem as an international area
• all of these

What was the 1st Arab country to officially recognize the state of Israel?

• Egypt
• Jordan
• Syria
• Lebanon