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100
This was the movement Gandhi led to protest the British government's monopoly on salt production in India.
What is the Salt March?
100
The doctrine named after this President, was passed by Congress in 1957, which gave the President the right to interfere in the Middle East with troops if necessary, if any country requested assistance against 'communist-related aggression.'
Who is Eisenhower?
100
These two western European nations had helped Israel strike Egypt and sent their own troops to fight there during the Suez Crisis of 1956.
What is Britain and France?
100
This state had become a factor of controversy between India and Pakistan.
What is Kashmir?
100
This organization used oil as an economic weapon during the 1973 war with Israel; the Arab countries involved in the organization made threats of oil embargos to countries that would support Israel in the war.
What is OPEC?
200
This was the document of 1917 whereby the British agreed to support the creation of a Jewish homeland and thus gave the British authority over its Palestinian mandate (P.S. this was also the document that gave Canada dominion status)
What is the Balfour Declaration?
200
This incident occured in the Punjab region of India where the British police opened fire on a crowed of unarmed peaceful protester, killing 379 people and wounding over a thousand.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
200
He was the Egyptian Prime Minister who nationalized the Suez Canal Company, which Britain partly owned.
Who is Nasser?
200
This is also known as Israel's war of Independence.
What is the Palestinian War; the 1948 War?
300
He was the leader of the Muslim League
Who is Jinnah?
300
The Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919 introduced a dyarchy system of government in India's 11 provinces; Brtian was in charge of law, order, army, etc. while the Indians were given control of this (name 2 of the 3 sectors they were given authority over).
What is education/health/agriculture (give 2 out of 3)
300
This was the war of 1973 which the Egyptians, with the help of Syria and Iraq, launched a surprise attack on Israel on the day of Jewish holiday.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
300
UNEFF (United Nations Emergency Force) were sent to this region of Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956 in order to establish a ceasefire between Israeli and Egyptian forces.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
300
Jawaharlal Nehru belonged to this Indian political party.
What is the Congress Party?
400
This was the Americna President who brought about the peace talks between Egypt and Israel in the Camp David Conference.
Who is Carter?
400
This secret agreement was arranged between Britain and France in 1916 regarding how they would divide the crumbling Ottoman Empire between themselves after World War One was over.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
400
When Britain announced in 1947 that they would renounce their powers in India and hand it all over to the nation itself by June 1948, this Briton was appointed viceroy to prepare India for a transfer of power.
Who is (Lord) Mountbatten?
400
This was the organization created in 1964 to rally and push for the Palestinian cause of a homeland and independance for their people.
What is the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)?
400
This was the hydroelectricity project the Americans offered to fund and build for the Egyptians on the Nile River;
What is the Aswan Dam?
500
This was the President who increased supplying of arms to Israel during the six day war.
Who is Lindon Johnson?
500
In 1935, the British government passed this act which gave Indians full control of provincial governments and shared control of the central government with Britian.
What is the Government of India Act?
500
From the victory of the Six Day War of 1967, Israel had defeated and pushed back its Arab aggressors while also militarily taking over there territories; the Israelis occupied the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the West Bank of Jordan, and this region from Syria.
What is the Golan Heights?
500
The lowest social group of the Indian caste system were referred as this; these were the people Gandhi really wanted to create equality for as the method of the caste system called for people to look down on them.
What is/are the 'Untouchable(s)'?
500
Egypt bought armaments from this country, which caused the Americans to cut ties with Egypt by withdrawing the offer of the hydroelectrical project.
What is Czechoslovakia?