Palestine and Cyprus

Question 1

Biltmore Program

Answer 1

May 1942

Conference held in the US to unite pro-Zionists

Question 2

Truman announced his support for partition in Palestine in his Yom Kippur Speech

Answer 2

October 1946

Question 3

% of British oil that came from the Middle East

Answer 3

61%

Question 4

King David Hotel was bombed by Jewish terrorists

Answer 4

22 July 1946
Housed the British army headquarters
91 people died

Question 5

Views of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin on Palestine

Answer 5

Largely pro-Arab stance
Supported the idea of a Palestinian state under a sort of UN trusteeship, with Britain maintaining a degree of administrative control
Did not support partition

Question 6

Number of British troops in Palestine

Answer 6

100,000

Question 7

Fraction of the population in Palestine that was Jewish

Answer 7

1/3

Question 8

There was a virtual war between the pro-Arab administration and the Jewish activists by…

Answer 8

1947

Question 9

Commission on Palestine was called

Answer 9

1947 - called UNSCOP

Question 10

UNSCOP ruled in favour of partitioning Palestine with an economic union between the two

Answer 10

November 1947

Question 11

Responses to UNSCOP ruling on Palestine

Answer 11

Jews accepted it
Arabs rejected it
British denied responsibility

Question 12

British stated that they would have nothing more to do with Palestine

Answer 12

December 1947

Question 13

Last British soldiers left Palestine

Answer 13

14 May 1948

Question 14

Number of troops who died in Palestine

Answer 14

338

Question 15

Cost to the British of being in Palestine 1945-47

Answer 15

£100 million

Question 16

PM David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of Israel

Answer 16

4pm 15 May 1948

Question 17

Israel was recognised by both America and the USSR within…

Answer 17

24 hours

Question 18

Minister from the Colonial Office stated that the British would hold onto Cyprus at all costs

Answer 18

July 1954

Question 19

Name of the nationalist movement in Cyprus

Answer 19

Eoka - proposed uniting Cyprus with Greece

Question 20

Number of British in Cyprus fighting against the Eoka guerrillas

Answer 20

30,000

Question 21

British began to negotiate with the Eoka

Answer 21

1957

Question 22

London and Zürich agreements

Answer 22

1959
Between Turkey, Greece, UK and Cyprus
Discussed the future of Cyprus
Drafted a new constitution

Question 23

Cyprus became independent

Answer 23

16 August 1960