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S.S. Quiz on vocab.
S.S. Quiz on vocabulary | Answer |
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Palestinian: a person descended from people of the Arabian peninsula | Arabs |
Discrimination against Jews | Anti-semitism |
The scattering of Jews around the world | Diaspora |
Ruled over the region from the early 1300's until the end of WW1 | The ottoman empire |
A movement in Europe in the early 1900's calling for Jews to establish a Jewish state in the ancient homeland ofPalesyinian | Zionosm |
The systematic plan by German leader Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Party to murder all the Jews | Holocaust |
Small crowded piece of coastal land where more than a million Palestinians live | Gaza Strip |
Disputed land in northern Israel and Western Syria | Golan Heights |
Palestinian territory; much larger than Gaza and has a population of 2.4 million | West Bank |
A large Jewish farm or settlement where people share everything in common | Kibbuts |
A person who flees his country for safety, usually from war | Refugees |
Arabic for uprising. a 7 year political revolt carried out by young Palestinians against the Israel occupation | Intifada |
A group that represents Arab people of Palestine who were displaced by the establishment of Isreal | PLO |
Arab extremist group founded in the mid-1980's that has led attacks on Isreal | Hamas |
U.S. president who helped work out a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1979 (the camp David Accord). | Jimmy Carter |
Egyptian president who signed peace agreement in 1979 | Anwar Sadat |
Israeli prime minister who signed the peace agreement in 1979 | Menachem Begin |
The first leader of the PLO; died 2004 | Yasser Arafat |
U.S. president who helped work out a peace agreement between the PLO and the Israelis in 1993, known as Oslo Accord | Bill Clinton |
Isreali prim minister who signed the peace agreement in 1993(the Oslo accord), later assassinated | Yitzhak Rabin |
An Islamic Shiite organization that frequently attacks Israel from neighboring countries | Hezbollah |
There is on official territory known by this name, making people refugees | Palestine |
At first Arabs & Jews lived together in peace, but as the _________ population increased the tension between the two groups increased | Jewish |
What event began or triggered the conflict? | Jews returned to their homeland because of Persecution in Europe |
Who was responsible for the two groups being forced to share land? | The United nations\Britain |
What is the main reason peace agreements don't last? | Peace treaty being broken because of extremist violence |