What is the name of the plan in which land was partitioned for the creation of a Jewish state?
What is the UN Partition Plan?
100
Who is the Egyptian president during the Suez Crisis?
What is Nasser?
100
This country falsely warned the Egyptian government that Israel was moving its armed forces to the border with Syria and was planning to attack.
What is the USSR
100
On what Jewish holy day did Egypt and Syria attack Israel?
What is Yom Kippur?
100
The aim of this organization was to "unite all Palestinians in the struggle to win back their land."
What is the PLO
200
This was a cause of the 1948-49 War.
What is the creation of Israel?
200
Give two of the nations involved in the Suez Crisis (out of 4).
What is Great Britain, France, Egypt, and/or Israel.
200
On May 22, Nasser closed this location, which led to the Gulf of Aqaba, to Isreali shipping.
What is the Straits of Tiran.
200
This was an unlikely weapon used during the October war by the Arabs to pressure the West.
What is oil?
200
This man, internationally known after the battle of Karameh, became leader of the PLO.
Who is Yasser Arafat
300
What types of agreements were made following the War of 1948-49 between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors?
What is armistice agreements?
300
What nation becomes Egypt's main ally as a result of the Suez Crisis?
What is the Soviet Union?
300
As a result of the six day war, The Isrealis now had control of these territories.
What is Golan Heights, West Bank, the Sinai peinsula, and Gaza Strip.
300
This country was the military victor of the October war.
What is Israel?
300
This country was the focus of the PLO's raids and bombings.
What is Israel
400
Which nation took the West Bank as a result of the 1948-49 War?
What is Jordan?
400
Which nation gained access to the Straits of Tiran as a result of the Suez Crisis?
What is Israel?
400
What resolution called for peace at the conclusion of the six day war.
What is UN Resolution 242.
400
This person was the Egyptian president during the October war, whose desire was to 'break the stalemate.'
What is Anwar Sadat?
400
The PLO was expelled from this country in 1970 after doing extreme terrorist acts and not following the rules of the country's government.
What is Jordan?
500
What two Israeli gangs formed the basis for the Israeli Defense Force?
What is the Stern Gang and Irgun?
500
Troops from what organization came in following the Crisis to guard the border between Israel and Egypt?
What is the UN?
500
This is the name of the Palestinian guerrilla organization formed in 1959 by Yasser Arafat.
What is the Fatah?
500
Give two of the possible causes of the October War.
What is: Egypt re-equipped and rearmed by the USSR; Sadat went to war to break stalemate; war of attrition fought over Suez Canal between Israel and Egypt; and/or President Sadat determined to regain Sinai but failed to persuade the US to pressure Israel into doing so.
500
More radical Palestinian groups like the ___ carried out attacks on other parts of the world other than Israel.
What is The Palestinian front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)