Arizona School for the Arts
Eastern Cultures
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Study Guide
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Middle East Study Guide: Arab-Israeli Conflict
Label Countries & Capitals:
Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, U.A.E., Israel, Egypt,
Lebanon, Jordan, Oman, Syria, Kuwait, Bahrain, Sinai
Peninsula
Label Bodies of Water:
Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Gulf of Aden, Strait
of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea
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Israeli-Palestinian Map
Map if Israel-Palestinian Territories
Label: Israeli Territories, Palestinian Territories, Gaza Strip,
West Bank, Golan Heights, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramla,
Ramallah, Dead Sea, Mediterranean Sea
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Diaspora
Vocabulary
Yahweh
Torah
Tanach
Talmud
Synagogue
Rabbi
Hanukkah
Passover
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Kosher
Menorah
Yarmulke/Kippa
Sabbath/Shabbat
Zionism
Pogrom
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Arab-Israeli Timeline: Key Events & Agreements
YEAR
EVENT
1896
T. Herzl
CAUSE
EVENT
EFFECT
First
Zionist
Conference
1915
Hussein
Mc Mahon
Letters
1916
SykesPicot
Agreement
1917
1936
1937
1936
1939
Balfour
Declaration
Holocaust
Arab
Revolt
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YEAR
1947
1948
1948
EVENT
CAUSE
EVENT
EFFECT
UN Res 181
UN
Partition
Plan
State of
Israel
Created
War of
Independence
Nakba/
Catastrophe
1956
Suez Canal
Crisis
1964
PLO
Created
1967
Six Day
War
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YEAR
EVENT
1967
UN
Resolution
242
1972
1978
1979
CAUSE
EVENT
EFFECT
Black
September
Munich
Games
Camp David
Accords
1987
First
Intifada
1993
Oslo
Accords
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YEAR
EVENT
CAUSE
EVENT
EFFECT
Rabin
1995 Assassinated
1996
Bibi N.
elected/
Likud Party
2000
Sharon
Temple
Mount Visit
2000
2nd Intifada
2001
Sharon
Elected
2006
Abbas/
Fatah Party
2012
Palestinian
Observer
Status UN
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Person/
Group
Country
Accomplishments
Detractions
Theodore
Herzel
First Zionist
Congress
Arab League
UNLU
David BenGurion
PLO
Gamal Nasser
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Person/
Group
Country
Accomplishments
Detractions
King Hussein
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasser Arafat
Hamas
Islamic Jihad
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Person/
Group
Country
Accomplishments
Detractions
Shimon Peres
Likud
Bibi Netanyahu
Kadima
Arial Sharon
Mahmoud
Abbas
Fatah
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