Creation of Israel

What movement called for a Jewish homeland and encouraged Jews to move back to the land now called "Israel"?

• The Crusades
• Zionism
• The PLO
• Arab Nation

In 1948, the state of Israel was formed to give which group of people a homeland?

• Christians

• Hindus

• Jewish

• Muslims

What led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I?

• The Ottomans were on the losing side of WWI

• The Ottoman Empire went bankrupt building new buildings and roads

• The people in the Empire were starving because drought ruined their crops

• The Ottoman government was overthrown by a revolt of factory workers who were unemployed when the war ended

Who drew up the boundaries of the new countries created from the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI?

• United States

• Ottoman rulers

• Arabs and Persians

• European Politicians

Who created the state of Israel in 1948?

• Minnie Mouse
• United States
• Arabs
• United Nations

During World War II, six million Jews were killed in the

• apartheid

• Holocaust

• Zionist War

• Palestine

Which group in the Middle East was not given their own country after World War I?

• Kurds

• Arabs

• Persians

• Turks

How did Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 feel about the creation of the new state of Israel?

• They completely supported it

• They rejected it as unfair

• The Arab population in Palestine was largely unaffected by the new country

• They agreed to work it out although they were unhappy about the decision

When war broke out between Palestinians and Jews in Palestine, which countries joined with the Palestinian Arabs to try and stop the creation of the new state of Israel?

• The United States

• Neighboring Arab countries

• the major nations of Europe

• the countries belonging to the United Nations