Lesson 4 -
Zionism vs Arab Nationalism
Outcomes (SWBAT)
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Evaluate the impact of nationalism in the Middle East, Indochina, Eastern
Europe, and the U.S.S.R.
Discuss the role of the great/superpowers in the Middle East
Activities
1. Go over questions on Israel/Palestine from last class
2. Ledger paper – Israel & Palestine. Students are to fill in information as
drawn on the white board
3. Israel DBQ – class time to work on
4. Post-lesson responder quiz
Materials
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Questions from last class
Ledger template for students
Notes on Israel & Palestine
Israel DBQ
Post-lesson quiz
THE MIDDLE EAST … 1948 
Pre-lesson questions and concepts
Reference: Global Forces, Chapter 12
1.
Provide reasons as to why the Middle East has been a source of conflict during
the 20th century.
Hostility
Mandate system
2.
Cold War (USA vs USSR)
homeland for whom?
Explain the Zionist movement.
Starting in the md 19th century, a search for a Jewish homeland in Palesting
3.
Explain the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
A contradiction – Britain makes 2 promises to Arabs & Jews over same
territory
4.
How did Israel become a state in 1948?
Jewish emigration had a huge impact
UN decision
5.
What happened to Palestinian refugees after the 1st Arab-Israel War?
6.
What was the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) --- its goals?
Fled to surrounding states such as Syria and Egypt… causes?
A group, led by Arafat, whose goal was the take back of homeland for
Palestinians
7.
Explain why the Israeli army launched a pre-emptive strike in June 1967.
8.
What territories were captured and occupied by Israel? Identify other results of
this war.
Sinai, West Bank, Golan Heights
9.
Describe the events of the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
10.
Describe the results of the Y-K War, including the actions of OPEC (pp 216-217).
11.
Describe the Camp David Accords. Consider players, purpose, and historical
significance. (Consider reasons for Arab anger towards Egypt).
12.
Explain the causes of the Iran-Iraq War.
13.
What political changes took place in Iran in 1979? Why?
14.
What were the results of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War?
15.
Explain why Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990.
16.
What part did the United Nations play in the war against Iraq? How many
countries were involved in “Operation Desert Storm”?
17.
Describe the environmental damage that resulted from this war.
18.
Describe the main American objectives in the Middle East during the Cold War.
19.
Describe the main Soviet objectives in the Middle East during the Cold War.
History 12
Ms. Lacroix
Name ___________________________________
THE MIDDLE EAST – DBQ
Document 1
His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home
for the Jewish people…it being clearly understood
that2nothing shall be done which may
Document
prejudice (threaten) the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine…
GROWTH OF THE JEWISH POPULATION IN PALESTINE
Balfour Declaration, British Foreign Office (1917)
JEWISH
% OF
YEAR
POPULATION
TOTAL POPULATION
1922
83 000
11.1
1928
151 656
16.9
1937
395 836
28.2
1944
554 329
30.6
British Census Figures for Palestine
Document 3
The First Zionist Congress had proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national revival in
their own country. This right was acknowledged by the Balfour Declaration… We hereby
proclaim the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine…
Israel’s Proclamation of Independence (1948)
Document 4
Stripped of propaganda and sentiment, the Palestine problem is simply the struggle of two
different peoples for the same strip of land.
I.F. Stone, New York Review of Books (1967)
Document 5
The world has witnessed the most monstrous injustice ever committed in this region of the
world… the conscience of mankind cannot accept this crime, this naked challenge of the
aggressors who refuse to quit the lands seized from the Arabs.
Editorial in the official newspaper of the Soviet government (June 1967)
Document 6
Article 1 – Palestine, the homeland of the Palestinian Arab people, is an inseparable part of the
Arab Nation
Article 2 – Palestine, within the frontiers that existed under the British Mandate, is an indivisible
territorial unit.
The Palestine National Charter (1968)
Document 7
Document 8
The deadlock (in solving the Israeli-Palestine problem) could only be broken if all the parties
were willing to accept the fundamental geopolitical reality of the Middle East: that Israel was
too strong to be defeated even by all its neighbours combined, and that the United States
would oppose interference by the Soviet Union.
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (1994)
DBQ – MIDDLE EAST
Name ____________________
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12
A.
Is Document 2 a primary or secondary source? Justify. (2)
B.
Assess the reliability of Document 5 as a source of evidence about the
Palestinian issue. (2)
C.
Explain how Documents 1 and 3 corroborate. (2)
D.
Using the documents and any other historical evidence, explain the
difficulties in achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis. (6)