The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history (corrected)

During the 1800s, Palestine (the region that Jewish people refer to as the "Promised Land") was under the control of what imperialist power?

• The Ottoman Empire

• the British

Palestine was populated mostly by 

• Muslims and Christians

• Jews

Where was Zionism first developed as an idea in 1897?

• Europe

• U.S.

• Palestine

In response to the Zionist movement

• Jewish Europeans flooded Palestine by the tens of thousands from 1880-1910 and beyond

• Christian Europeans flooded Palestine by the tens of thousands from 1880-1910 and beyond

Which imperialist powers carved up the Middle East after World War I?

• Ottoman Turks

• British and French

Which European imperialist power gained control of Palestine in 1919?

• British 

• French

Why did the British start limiting Jewish immigration in the 1930s?

• acts of violence between Jewish immigrants and Palestinian Arabs

• acts of violence of Jewish immigrants against Palestinian Arabs

• acts of violence of Palestinian Arabs against the Jewish immigrants

When the horrors of the Holocaust became fully understood by Western nations following World War II

• Western nations became sympathetic to the Jewish desire for a homeland

• Western nations remained unsympathetic to the Jewish desire for a homeland

The UN devised a plan to create 

• two separate states in Palestine: one for Jews (Israel) and one for Arabs (Palestine)

• a Jewish state (Israel) and to put Arab Palestinians under the control of the Jewish state.

The UN designated Jerusalem as a special international zone because

• they didn't want Israel to have it

• they wanted to respect the fact that it is a holy pilgrimage site for (Arab) Muslims, (Arab) Christians, and (Western) Jewish adherents