Holy Land Key words

Question 1

Nation

Answer 1

a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, and traditions

Question 2

State

Answer 2

a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

Question 3

Nation-state

Answer 3

a political unit where the state and nation are in harmony

Question 4

Nationality

Answer 4

the status of belonging to a particular nation

Question 5

Nationalism

Answer 5

identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion of the interests of other nations.

Question 6

Colonialism

Answer 6

the practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

Question 7

Ethnicity

Answer 7

the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

Question 8

Arab

Answer 8

a member of a Semitic people

Question 9

Anti-Semitism

Answer 9

hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

Question 10

Pogroms

Answer 10

an organized massacre of helpless people (often relating to Jews)

Question 11

Zionism

Answer 11

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 12

Hussein-McMahon letters

Answer 12

Letters that the Arabs assumed meant that in exchange for their support against the Turks they would received British support in forming an Arab homeland. Nothing was stated precisely and no deal was ever made.

Question 13

Sykes-Picot agreement

Answer 13

The 1916 secret agreement between Britain and France that divided up the Arab lands of Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.

Question 14

Balfour Declaration

Answer 14

British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI - 1917

Question 15

National self-determination

Answer 15

The free choice by the people of a nation of their own future political status.

Question 16

King-Crane Commission

Answer 16

US committee sent by 1919 Paris Peace Conference to understand Syrian and Palestinian aspirations, but its report, sympathetic to Arab nationalism, was not acted upon

Question 17

Haganah

Answer 17

A Zionist paramilitary group formed in 1920 with the expressed goal of defending the growing Jewish population in British mandate Palestine against attacks by Arab residents.

Question 18

Lehi

Answer 18

Extreme Zionists: Freedom for Israel Freedom

Question 19

Mandate (in the League of Nations)

Answer 19

A legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I

Question 20

The UNSCOP Partition Plan

Answer 20

A plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jerusalem should be an international zone under UN control

Question 21

Arab Higher Committee

Answer 21

Formed in 1936 in response to a general Arab strike that was to continue until Britain granted the Arabs’ demands for restrictions on immigration/land sales and the establishment of a democratic government.

Question 22

European Jewish Diaspora

Answer 22

A dispersion of the Jewish people (across Europe) as a result of ill-treatment, oppression and persecution (of the Jewish people)