Starter quiz
- What disaster happened in Bengal in 1943?
- civil war
- famine ✓
- protests
- strikes
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- What is the term for when people stop working as a form of protest?
- 'strike' ✓
- Who was leader of the Muslim League in 1940?
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah ✓
- Lord Mountbatten
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- What was the result of the partition of India in 1947?
- mass migration ✓
- famine
- strikes
- violence ✓
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- Why were the borders created during Partition problematic?
- They led to divided families and villages. ✓
- They led to divisions between religious communities.
- They caused mass migration. ✓
- They caused mass famine.
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- Put the following events in chronological order.
- 1⇔The Indian National Congress was established.
- 2⇔The Muslim League was created.
- 3⇔India and Pakistan became independent states.
- 4⇔East Pakistan became the country of Bangladesh.
Exit quiz
- What percentage of Palestine people were Arab Muslims in 1970?
- 70%
- 80%
- 90% ✓
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- The Zionist movement supported the establishment of a ______ state in Palestine.
- 'Jewish' ✓
- Which country occupied Palestine during the First World War?
- Britain ✓
- Germany
- France
- USA
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- Match the following promises made by the British to the documents making these promises.
- McMahon-Hussein Correspondence⇔Britain promised to support an independent Arab state ✓
- Sykes-Picot agreement⇔pact between Britain and France to divide up the Ottoman Empire ✓
- Balfour Declaration⇔supported establishment of a home for Jewish people in Palestine ✓
- What led to the Great Arab Revolt in 1936?
- British soldiers tried to force striking Arabs back to work. ✓
- British soldiers tried to force striking Jews back to work.
- British soldiers tried to force striking Christians back to work.
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- What took place on the day following the creation of Israel in 1948?
- the British withdrew from Palestine
- a refugee crisis began
- the first Arab-Israeli war began ✓
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Key learning points
- During WW1, Britain occupied Palestine and made conflicting promises to different groups of people which caused tension.
- After WW1, the British government administered Palestine, allowing Jewish immigration which caused tension and conflict.
- After the Holocaust, large numbers of European Jews travelled to Palestine to form a Jewish state.
- In 1947, the UN proposed the partition of Palestine to create separate Arab and Jewish states.
- In 1948, Israel declared independence leading to the 1948 war involving neighbouring Arab states.
Common misconception
That Britain has no historic role in the creation of tension between Arabs and Jews over Palestine.
Britain's colonial role in Palestine during and after the First World War involved it making conflicting promises to both Arabs and Jews over Palestine's future.
Keywords
Zionist - someone who supports the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; a movement for the protection of the state of Israel
Mandate - an official order giving a country or governing body the authority to manage and control a specific area of land
Revolt - an organised effort by a group of people to resist or overthrow the authority or government in power
Partition - to divide into parts
Paramilitary - an organised force that acts like a military unit but is not an official part of a country's armed forces