Orde Wingate Flashcards

1
Q

Arabs continued to express their “dismay and alarm” at Jewish presence through

A

Attacks on jews

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2
Q

British captain Orde Wingate arrived in year

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1936

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3
Q

Orde was deeply sympathetic to _ due to devout Christian faith

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Zionism

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4
Q

Wingate offered his help to

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Zionist leaders

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5
Q

Having noticed most British officers are on opposite side, jews

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Regarded Orde’s offer with suspicion

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6
Q

Orde had plans to _

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Stop Muslim Arab attacks on jews

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7
Q

Orde said only way to deal with attacks is to persuade Muslim gangs that

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Their attacks could be met with a government gang that will destroy them

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8
Q

Government gangs would move at night and

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Will surprise them

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9
Q

Surprise them either in _ or _

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Villages

Across country

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10
Q

Even though they would be British government forces, they would

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Be partially made of jews

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11
Q

British authorities were initially

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Reluctant

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12
Q

British ultimately

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Approved Wingate’s plan

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13
Q

The name of the government force was called

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Special Night Squads (SNS)

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14
Q

SNS began to fight back against

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Al-husseini’s Arab Muslim mobs

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15
Q

Wingates comrads were not

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Pleased

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16
Q

Not pleased by

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Orde’s eccentricities

17
Q

British authorities disliked that Britain

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Ally with jews rather than arabs

18
Q

Orde recommends that _ jews immigrate to Palestine

A

1 million more

19
Q

British had enough with wingates advocacy for the jews and

A

Transferred him out of Palestine

20
Q

Transferred him out in year

A

1939

21
Q

British officials ordered Orde’s passport be stamped with instructions

A

To not let him reenter Palestine

22
Q

Same month of Orde’s transfer, British

A

Rewarded Al-husseini again

23
Q

British rewarded Al-husseini by

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Limiting Jewish settlements to 75k over the next 5 years

24
Q

The limit of Jewish immigration was at same time

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Hitler readying Final Solution to Jews

25
Q

In 1937 _ expressed surprise that tensions hadn’t died down

A

Peel commission

26
Q

Antagonism by Arab Muslims accentuated by pressure of

A

Pressure of jews in Europe

27
Q

Antagonism by Arab Muslims accentuated by development of

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Arab nations in neighboring countries

28
Q

Commission ascribed antagonism in large part to the lack of

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Arab state in Palestine