Dates Week 3

Question 1

1920-1948

Answer 1

British Mandate in Palestine

Question 2

1920

Answer 2

Franco-Syrian war

Question 3

4-7 Apr 1920

Answer 3

“jerusalem riots” during Nebi Musa festival

Question 4

1933

Answer 4

Nazis rise to power + set of antisemitic laws

Question 5

1922

Answer 5

Churchill White Paper

Question 6

Aug 1929

Answer 6

rioters attack Jewish neighborhoods and settlements across Palestine

Question 7

1929

Answer 7

the Shaw Commission of Inquiry

Question 8

1930

Answer 8

the Passfield White Paper

Question 9

1933-36

Answer 9

massive Jew immigration, fleeing Nazism in Europe

Question 10

1935

Answer 10

British police kills Palestinian leader Sheikh Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam

Question 11

1936

Answer 11

Jewish population made 27% of Palestine population

Question 12

1937

Answer 12

Peel Commission

Question 13

1939

Answer 13

White Paper

Question 14

1938

Answer 14

Jaffa bombings by Zionist militias

Question 15

1946

Answer 15

King David Cran bombing by Zionist militias

Question 16

1977

Answer 16

Irgun leader becomes Israel PM

Question 17

1986

Answer 17

Stern Gang leader becomes Israel PM

Question 18

1917-48

Answer 18

Palestine electrical grid designed by Zionist engineer

Question 19

1930

Answer 19

contract to extract potash from Dead Sea denied to Palestinian entrepreneurs and awarded to Zionist company

Question 20

1938

Answer 20

Evian conf

Question 21

1945

Answer 21

Shoah

Question 22

1946-1947

Answer 22

UK restricts Jewish immigration from Europe to Palestine with naval blockade

Question 23

15 May 1947

Answer 23

UN creates UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)

Question 24

1943

Answer 24

Lebanon independent

Question 25

1944

Answer 25

Arab League founded

Question 26

1946

Answer 26

Transjordan independent

Question 27

1946

Answer 27

Syria independent

Question 28

Feb 1948

Answer 28

Transjordan annexes Arab part of Palestine

Question 29

1941-48

Answer 29

anti-Jewish riots in Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Yemen

Question 30

29 Nov 1947

Answer 30

UN Resolution 181

Question 31

14 May 1948

Answer 31

end of British Mandate

Question 32

Feb 1948

Answer 32

Arab Liberation Army blockade on Jerusalem

Question 33

9 April 1948

Answer 33

Irgun and Stern Gang attack Arab village of Deir Yassn during Jerusalem siege

Question 34

May 1948

Answer 34

Egyptian Army advances

Question 35

June 1948

Answer 35

UN imposes 4-weeks cease-fire