Arab-Israeli Conflicts Quiz Review

What country created the Palestinian Mandate at the end of WWI?

• France
• Great Britain
• United States
• Germany 

What has been a common goal of the Jews & Muslims?

• to unite all Middle Eastern nations as one
• to have their own independent countries
• to become leaders in the world economy
• to impose their religion on others

Why was there international support to create the state of Israel in 1948?

• the land was unoccupied at the time
• the Holocaust opened peoples' eyes to the persecution of the Jews
• Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a Jewish homeland
• all national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were promised homelands by the UN

How did the Arab community respond to the UN Partition Plan?

• they rejected it & attacked Israel
• they rejected it & attacked Palestinians
• they accepted it
• they ignored it

What does PLO stand for?

• Palestine Lives On
• Palestinian Liberation Organization
• Protest Liberty Organization
• Prosperity Livelihood Oneness

Israel declared independence in what year?

• 1946
• 1947
• 1948
• 1949

Who was the longtime leader of the PLO?

• Yassir Arafat
• Mahmoud Abbas
• Osama Bin-Laden
• Anwar Sadat

What is anti-semitism

• Discrimination against Christians

• Discrimination against Jews

• Allowing Jews into your home

• The movement of giving the Jews a homeland

The Jews were expelled from all of these countries in the Middle Ages EXCEPT

• England
• France
• Germany
• Spain

Jews were often blamed for the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 1300s because ________.

• a Jewish doctor aided in the spread of the Black Death

• Christians spread the rumor that Jews had poisoned the European drinking wells

• Jews brought the Black Death from India and China

• Only Christians died from the Black Death