Unit 10: Paper 3 — History of Africa and the Middle East (HL)
Topic 10.9: Conflict and instability in the Middle East (1896–2020) Questions
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Who signed the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979, brokered by US President Carter at Camp David?
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Which Jewish underground defence force was formed in 1920 and grew far more organised during the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939?
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Who declared the creation of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948?
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In the Balfour Declaration of 1917, Britain declared support for a Jewish national home in Palestine while also stating that nothing should prejudice the
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Which UN body investigated the situation in Palestine in 1947 and recommended partition into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem under international control?
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In which year was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) founded?
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Approximately how many Palestinians fled or were expelled during the 1948 war, an event Palestinians call the Nakba?
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Which territory did Egypt occupy as a result of the 1948 war?
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Which territories did Israel capture in the 1967 War, creating a long-term political question about whether to keep, return or settle them?
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Approximately how many Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war, an event known as the Nakba?
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Which agreement was a SECRET 1916 Anglo-French plan to divide Ottoman territory in the Middle East into British and French zones of control?
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Which wave of Jewish immigration (Aliyah) to Palestine was driven mainly by Nazi persecution in Germany after 1933?
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Which British policy document, issued in 1939, capped Jewish immigration to Palestine at 75,000 over five years and was seen by Zionists as a betrayal on the eve of the Holocaust?
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What did the Arab Peace Initiative, proposed by Saudi Arabia and adopted by the Arab League in 2002, offer Israel?
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What was the main outcome of the Oslo Accords, beginning in 1993?
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Discuss the view that the collapse of the 2000 Camp David Summit was primarily the fault of Yasser Arafat's leadership, rather than the result of an inherently flawed and rushed process.
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Evaluate the claim that the rise of the PLO after 1964 did more to unite the Palestinian national cause than to advance it.
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Evaluate the claim that Israel's rejection of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative shows that a 'security first' approach has mattered more than a 'land for peace' approach in blocking a comprehensive Arab–Israeli settlement.
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Evaluate the claim that the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty of 1979 succeeded mainly because it avoided the region's hardest problems, rather than because it resolved genuine grievances.
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Discuss the view that Jewish land purchases and immigration, rather than British policy, were the main driver of Arab nationalism in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s.
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