Arab Rebellion 1936-39

Question 1

Palestinian population

Answer 1

90% peasants - increasing impoverished and landless as Zionist settlements expanded

Question 2

Jewish Agency

Answer 2

• provided effective leadership

- Arab leadership was divided

Question 3

Arab Higher Committee formed

Answer 3

• in 1936

- due to increasing desperation of Arabs

Question 4

AHC called strike

Answer 4

April 1936- all Arab workers and government employees

-also called for attacks on Jewish settlements and British forces

Question 5

April Strike

Answer 5

unsuccessful-Arabs workers replaced in Jewish businesses by Jews
-Arab government employees lost their influence on government policies

Question 6

fightings breaking out

Answer 6

in countryside : Arab farmers fought to prevent being evicted and villagers attacked Jews cultivating traditional land.
-20 jews killed

Question 7

civil war starts

Answer 7

1936 mid summer
lasted 3 years
thousands of lives lost

Question 8

British response

Answer 8

• harsh
• hung several Arab leaders
• exiled others
• destroyed houses suspected of containing Arab terrorists or arms

Question 9

Britain

Answer 9

helped train Haganah and Jewish Defence Force

Question 10

Ben-Gurion

Answer 10

‘only war, not negotiation, would resolve the conflict’

Question 11

aims:

Answer 11

hoped that resistance would change the pro-zionist policies in Palestine

Question 12

caused the partition plan

Answer 12

1937 - PEEL Commission

-Arabs rejected this plan as they wanted it to be an independent Arab state

Question 13

Zionist response

Answer 13

-agreed to the plan as they knew Jews weren’t powerful enough to demand more

Question 14

White Paper

Answer 14

1939
-10000 Jewish immigrants for 5 years
25000 Jewish refugees also admitted
-then Jewish immigration would be stopped