Middle East Dates

Question 1

WW1

Answer 1

1914-1918

Question 2

McMahon-Hussein correspondance

Answer 2

1915-1916

Question 3

Sykes-Picot agreement

Answer 3

1916

Question 4

Balfour Declaration

Answer 4

1917

Question 5

British mandate

Answer 5

1920-1948

Question 6

Arab revolt

Answer 6

1936-1939

Question 7

Peel commission

Answer 7

1937

Question 8

White paper

Answer 8

1939

Question 9

WWII and Holocaust

Answer 9

1939-1945

Question 10

King David Hotel Bombing

Answer 10

1946

Question 11

Sergeants affair and SS. Exodus

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

Britain hands issue to UN = UNSCOP + Resolution 101

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

Declaration of establishment of Israel and exit of Britain

Answer 13

14th May 1948

Question 14

Arabs invade Israel = Arabs lose and Palestinian refugees forced from land –> UN resolution 194

Answer 14

15th May 1948-1949

Question 15

Law of return

Answer 15

1950

Question 16

Suez crisis = Arab nationalism and Nasser’s importance, end of Britain and France, and rise of USA

Answer 16

29th October 1956

Question 17

6 Day war = Israel victory, West bank and Gaza strip controlled by Israel = occupied territories

Answer 17

5th-10th June 1967

Question 18

Creation of PLO

Answer 18

1964

Question 19

Dawson’s field and Black September

Answer 19

1970

Question 20

Munich Olympics

Answer 20

1972

Question 21

Yom Kippur war = Israeli initial shock but still won (help from USA) need to add exact date

Answer 21

1973

Question 22

Arafat addresses UN

Answer 22

1974

Question 23

Sadat flies to Israel to address Knesset

Answer 23

1977

Question 24

Camp David

Answer 24

August 1978

Question 25

Treaty of Washington

Answer 25

26th March 1979

Question 26

Operation Litani = Israel in Lebanon because of PLO

Answer 26

1978

Question 27

Iranian revolution

Answer 27

1979

Question 28

Iran- Iraq War

Answer 28

1980-1988

Question 29

Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Answer 29

1982

Question 30

First Intifada

Answer 30

1987

Question 31

Arafat renounces Terrorism addresses UN in Geneva

Answer 31

1988

Question 32

First Gulf War

Answer 32

1990-1991

Question 33

Peace process = 
Madrid 
Oslo I accords
Oslo II accords
Wye River
Camp David II

Answer 33

1991-2000

Question 34

Second Intifada

Answer 34

2000