Palestine, PLO, Lebanon, and the Intifada

Question 1

PLO formed

Answer 1

2 June 1964

Question 2

Yasser Arafat chairman of PLO

Answer 2

1969

Question 3

PLO new charter

Answer 3

“Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine”

Question 4

Terrorist groups under PLO

Answer 4

PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)

Question 5

Swiss plane to Israel blown up

Answer 5

1970

Question 6

Jordan expels PLO

Answer 6

1970

Question 7

Dawson’s Field Hijackings

Answer 7

Sept 1970

Question 8

Black September/Jordanian Civil War

Answer 8

1970

Question 9

Black September assassinates Jordan PM

Answer 9

1972

Question 10

Jordan PM assassinated

Answer 10

Wasfi al-Tel

Question 11

Munich Olympics

Answer 11

5 Sept 1972

Question 12

Golda Meir response to Black September

Answer 12

Operation Wrath of God

Question 13

Yasser Arafat speech to UN General Assembly

Answer 13

1974

Question 14

Palestinian refugees to Lebanon after Six Day War

Answer 14

40,000

Question 15

Lebanon government orders army to regain control of South

Answer 15

1975

Question 16

Syrian invasion of Lebanon for ‘peacekeeping’

Answer 16

1976

Question 17

Israel invades Lebanon after Tel Aviv bus attack

Answer 17

1978
Tel Aviv bus attack: 37 killed

Question 18

Israel invasion after withdrawal under USA pressure

Answer 18

1982: Operation Peace for Galilee

Question 19

May 17th Agreement

Answer 19

1983

Question 20

May 17th Agreement repudiated

Answer 20

1984

Question 21

Lebanon descends into ‘war society’

Answer 21

1985-89

Question 22

Palestinian Intifada

Answer 22

1987

Question 23

Intifada ends

Answer 23

1993 - Oslo Accords