Key Figures and Events in Middle Eastern History and Politics

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Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel, leader of the Mapai Party, and helped found the kibbutz movement?

Who founded the Zionist Revisionist movement and called for massive Jewish immigration into Palestine?

Which Western-educated leader of Iraq was known for his love of fast cars and being a playboy?

Who was the young, European-educated Shah of Iran believed to be easily manipulated by the British?

Which Israeli Prime Minister signed the Camp David Accords in 1979 and led the Irgun in 1944?

Who was the Palestinian Arab nationalist leader who met with Hitler and opposed a Jewish national home in Palestine?

Who was the first female Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974, and resigned after the 1973 war?

Who was the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of Palestine from 1994 to 2004?

Which former Israeli Prime Minister was responsible for the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2004?

Who is the current Prime Minister of Israel and Chairman of the Likud Party?

Who is the current President of the Palestinian Authority, negotiating for a separate Palestinian state?

Which left-wing political party in Israel was dominant until its merger into the Labor Party in 1968?

What was the Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to the British presence in Palestine in the 1940s?

Which Jewish terrorist group was committed to driving the British out of Palestine?

What was the Zionist political party in Poland during the 1930s, similar to 'boy scouts'?

What was the British policy paper issued in 1939 that rejected partitioning Palestine and limited Jewish immigration?

What was the tragedy involving a boat packed with Jewish refugees that sank after being forced out to sea?

Which hotel housed British officers and was bombed by the Irgun in 1946?

What was the name of the small Palestinian village attacked by the Irgun, where bodies were mutilated?

What is the name of the populated desert region between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt?

What is the name of the coastal region at the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean bordering Israel and Egypt?

What is the area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan River known as?

Which region was formerly part of Southwest Syria and has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war?

What agreement ended the French Mandate and made Lebanon an Arab country?

What is the name of the radical Shiʿite Muslim organization in Lebanon engaged in guerrilla warfare against Israel?

What was the uprising against Israeli rule in Palestinian Territories in 1987, involving strikes and boycotts?

What is the name of the period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence that began in late September 2000?

Which militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon?

Which early terrorist group adopted a radical Islamic ideology justifying violence to liberate Palestine?

What declaration involved Arafat's readiness to negotiate with Israel and recognize its right to exist?

What agreement is also known as the Declaration of Principles and involved letters of recognition?

What agreement divided the West Bank into three zones, with Israel controlling the majority of the territory?

What was the 15-day summit hosted by Bill Clinton between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat called?

What is the quasi-governmental body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza?

What is the name of the Israeli parliament, elected for the first time in 1949, and is a unicameral body?

Which political party in Israel is based on Revisionist Zionism and favors the one-state solution?

Who are the Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, governed by a conservative interpretation of religious law?

What Jewish sect is founded upon mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, and religious zeal?

What is the name of the Israeli foreign intelligence agency?

What were four factors that contributed to growing Jewish-Arab violence in the 1920s and 1930s?

Why did the Wailing Wall riots of 1928-29 occur?

What were two reasons the Soviets and British invaded Iran in the Second World War?

What were three motivations that the neighboring Arab countries had for getting involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict?

What were three Arab military weaknesses that explain the defeat of the Arab armies in 1948?

What were three significant effects of the 1948 war?

What were four examples of early Israeli policies taken during the 1940s and 1950s?

What were four challenges that the Israeli economy faced during the 1950s?

What are four ways that the Israeli economy developed from the 1960s onward?

What are four social and cultural challenges that Israel began to confront in the 1960s and 1970s?

What were four principles of UN Resolution 242, and what are the difficulties that have emerged with each one?

What were four factions of the Palestinian Liberation Organization by the 1970s?

What were four effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestine?

What were three responses that Israel had to the Intifada?

What were four reasons that the Oslo peace process of the 1990s unraveled as the decade went on?

What are three political conflicts that have erupted over water rights in the Middle East?

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