Key terms

Question 1

Arab higher committee

Answer 1

Committee of Palestinian Arab leaders formed in 1936

Question 2

Arab nationalism

Answer 2

The belief that the Arab people constitute a single political community or nation which should be dependent

Question 3

Diaspora

Answer 3

The dispersal of people

Question 4

Haganah

Answer 4

Jewish defence force set up in the 1920s

Question 5

Hashemite rulers

Answer 5

The descendants of sharif hussein

Question 6

Irgun

Answer 6

A secret Zionist organisation formed in 1937

Question 7

Jewish agency

Answer 7

The governing body of the Zionist movement in Palestine during the British mandate set up in 1908

Question 8

League of Nations

Answer 8

The international peace keeping organisation set up between WW1 and 2

Question 9

Lobbied

Answer 9

To lobby is to seek the support of a law making body

Question 10

Mandate

Answer 10

Am order from the League of Nations giving Britain and France control of Arab lands previously controlled by turkey.

Question 11

Ottoman

Answer 11

Name of the Turkish dynasty that lasted from 16th century till the end of WW1

Question 12

Pan-Arabism

Answer 12

The belief that Arab people should be United under a common government

Question 13

Self- determination

Answer 13

The right for nations to govern themselves

Question 14

Suez Canal

Answer 14

Constructed waterway linking the red sea to the Mediterranean through Egypt

Question 15

Stern gang

Answer 15

A Zionist terrorist grouping founded in 1939

Question 16

White paper

Answer 16

A government doc making recommendations

Question 17

Zionism

Answer 17

A movement for the establishment and protection of the Jewish state of Israel