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| the Irgun, LEHI, and possibly the Haganah killed 100-250 Arab people in this Palestinian village |
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| the first Prime Minister of Israel |
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| the first Israeli president |
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| the founder of the modern Zionist movement |
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| a UN representative who was sent into the Middle East to seek an armistice during the Arab-Israeli War and was assassinated by the LEHI |
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| a radical group also known as the Stern Gang |
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| any Jew in the world could immediately gain Israeli citizenship |
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| this place was named the capital of Israel after the 1st Arab-Israeli War |
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| the leaving of hundreds of thousands of Arabs from Palestine that has led to controversy over why they left |
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| Ben Guiron's "labor party" |
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| this group helped Israeli with its financial problems after the 1st Arab-Israeli War, Germany's reparation payments also helped with this |
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| the Jordanian king who made a non-aggression pact with Israel in 1950 and then assassinated |
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| international playboy king of Egypt who is forced out |
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| takes over when Farouk is forced out of Egypt in 1945 but is quickly pushed aside |
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| the young, educated leader of Egypt who reformed Egypt and was recognized as a hero |
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| an extremist militia group operating out of Jordan who leads a bunch of raids in Israel |
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| North African Algerian Revolution |
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| Algeria is seeking independence from France and Nasser tries to fund the revolution leading the rest of the world to think he is leaning towards communism |
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| a defense alliance between Britain, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan that Nasser felt was intentionally a plan to isolate Egypt |
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| this was a plan for Israel to go in and take back the Suez Canal by going through the Sinai Peninsula and seizing control of the East Border. Britain and France planned to then issue an ultimatum for both Egypt and Israel to leave or they would intervene. Egypt would reject this, allowing them to retaliate, take the canal, kill Nasser, and destroy the Czech weapons |
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| this was a plan for Israel to go in and take back the Suez Canal by going through the Sinai Peninsula and seizing control of the East Border. Britain and France planned to then issue an ultimatum for both Egypt and Israel to leave or they would intervene. Egypt would reject this, allowing them to retaliate, take the canal, kill Nasser, and destroy the Czech weapons |
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| US President during the Suez Crisis |
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| the Blue Hats who occupied the Sinai to keep peace and act as a buffer zone |
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| the plan for all the Arab countries to have the same goals, to recreate a Palestinian country |
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| US would support any Middle Eastern country trying to resist communism |
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| meaning conquest, this older guerilla group was founded in the 1950s |
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| the leader of the al-fatah and later the PLO, Arafat has been considered both a terrorist and a hero |
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| formed in 1964, this umbrella organization tried to unify all the other militias and is still operating today |
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| take things to the brink to get someone to stop it |
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| war between Egypt and Israel due to a false Soviet intelligence report leading to Israel launching a massive preemptive strike on Egypt; Israel gains large amounts of territory from this |
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| the old leader of the Irgun who Levi Eshkol brings into his cabinet in the days leading up the Six Day War |
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| Israeli war hero and later defense minister |
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| Israeli Prime Minister during the Six Day War |
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| Sinai, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem |
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| the 5 territories acquired by Israel at the close of the Six Day War |
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| British Prime Minister during the Suez Crisis |
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| French Prime Minister during the Suez Crisis |
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| a bloody stalemate during 1968-1970 where the Israelis fortified their side of the Suez Canal; Egypt is shelled and raided; Cairo is attacked; Nasser allows Soviets to have bases in Egypt |
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| ended the War of Attrition and later was not much help in the Yom Kippur War because of the WaterGate Scandal |
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| refugee area is Jordan where al-Fatah is housed. Attacked by Israelis so Arabs fire back and Israelis back away |
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| in 1970 when 5 planes were hijacked by the PLO. King Hussein was so embarrassed, he kicked the PLO out |
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| attack by Black September terrorists at the Munich games that led to the death of two athletes in the Olympic village and the rest kidnapped are killed at the airport as well as a police officer due to a grenade being thrown |
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| he takes over Egypt after Nasser; his goal was to restore Egypt back to economic health and get the Sinai and Gaza Strip back |
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| leader of Syria who's goal was to get the Golan Heights back |
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| US Secretary of State during the Yom Kippur War who helps bring an end to the war known for "shuttle diplomacy" |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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