How Israel Became a Country

What agreement in 1916 proposed the division of Ottoman territories between France and Great Britain?

• Paris Peace Conference

• Balfour Declaration

• Sykes-Picot Agreement

• McMahon-Hussein Correspondence

Which declaration in 1917 supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

• UN Partition Plan

• McMahon-Hussein Correspondence

• Sykes-Picot Agreement

• Balfour Declaration

In what year did Israel declare independence, leading to the first Arab-Israeli war?

• 1973

• 1948

• 1917

• 1967

What was the outcome of the Six-Day War in 1967?

• A peace treaty was signed immediately after the war

• Israel lost territories to surrounding Arab states

• Israel gained territories including the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights

• The war led to the establishment of Israel

What did the Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, aim to establish?

• Limited Palestinian self-rule in parts of the West Bank and Gaza

• A confederation between Israel and Palestine

• A single-state solution

• The return of all occupied territories to Palestinian control