Key People, Terms and Agreements

Key People, Terms and Agreements

1. UN Partition Plan

   • Resolution 181
     • The Plan to divide Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state
       • Self Governed

2. The White Paper 1939

   • Limit Jewish immigration to 75,000 over 5 years
     • 10 year plan

3. Zionism

   • A movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann. A Zionist is someone who advocates for a Jewish nation

4. Shoa/Holocaust

   • refers to the systematic annihilation of six million Jewish people by Germany’s Nazi regime over the period January 30 1933 to May 8 1945. The Holocaust is a unique event in the history of humankind, in that one specific people, the Jews, was marked for destruction as a basic ideology of the state. It should be remembered that a number of other groups and individuals (including Gypsies, homosexuals, political dissidents and the intellectually and physically disabled) were also targeted by the Nazis.

5. Diaspora

   • the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel. • Jews living outside Israel. • the dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland.

6. Anti-Semitism

   • hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an anti-Semite.

7. Key People Zionism

   • David Ben Gurion
     • Prime Minister
       • Declared Jewish State 14th May 1968
     • Jewish Zionist
   • Chaim Weizmann
     • 1974-1952
       • A noted chemist, and Britain's leadin Zionist. Made important discovery that aided British munitions production in WW1 giving him influence with polititions. Architext of the Balfour Decleration
   • Theodor Herzl
     • 1860-1904
       • Father of Zionism.

8. Arab Nationalism

   • Arab Nationalism is an ideology which rose to prominence in the 1950s as Arab Nations began to gain independence from former colonial powers. The premise of Arab Nationalism is that there should be political, cultural, religious, and historical unity among the people of Arab nations.
   • Hussein Ibn Ali
     • 1852-1931
       • Leader of the Arab Revolt against the Turks in 1916. Proclaimed himself King, his family still rule in Jordan

9. Hussein-McMahon Corresoindence

   • 1915
     • Agreement between British and Arabs promising them land if they assisted in WW1

10. Sykes-Picot Agreement

    • October 1916
      • A secret agreement between Britain and France to divide the land up between them

11. Balfour Declaration

    • November 1917
      • 67 Words
      • Gives the Jews a state but was not to displace the Arabs
        • "National homeland in Palestine"

12. Mandate System

    • League of Nations giving Allied Powers control over land won in WW1
      • British given rule over Palestine to keep order

13. UNSCOP

    • United Nations Special Committee on Palestine