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Updated as of 2 October 05

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Handout Ten

Topic: The Origins of Israel and the Birth of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-67 

OUTLINE: 

X. The Origins of Israel and the Birth of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-67.

1. The Egyptian Revolution.
2. The Quest for a Jewish Nation.
3. Britain and the Problems in Palestine.
4. Israel’s War for Independence.
5. Nasser and Egypt.
6. The Suez Crisis.
7. The Eisenhower Doctrine.
8. Origins of the Six-Day War.
9. The Resolution of the Six-Day War.

 QUESTIONS:

1. Egypt has been competing with other Arab states in the Middle East as predominant power in the region. What factors account for the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of Nasser in Egypt? Did Egypt regain her lost luster with Nasser’s rise?
2. What were the moving forces that explain the creation of Israel following World War II? What part did Britain play in the birth of the Israeli state?
3. What were the Origins of the Suez Crisis in 1956? What part did the United States play in the crisis? Were there any similarities to the recent war in Iraq?
4. Israel has managed to defeat a coalition of Arab states since 1948. How did the Arabs hope to reverse that trend in 1967? Why were they defeated? What was the long-term impact on the region following the Six-Day War? Explain.
5. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? How did it apply to the Middle East?

 TERMS:

 King Farouk                   Hajj Amin al-Husayni              Eisenhower Doctrine

Wafd Party                      Peel Commission                     Lebanese Civil War

Muhammad Nagib          David Ben Gurion                    Faisal II

Theodore Herzl               Stern Gang                                Ba’th Party

Adul Nasser                    Irgun                                        UN Resolution 242

Der Judenstaat               Nasserism

Second Aliyah                Baghdad Pact

Kibbutz                           Fidaiyin

Balfour Declaration         Aswan High Dam

Vladimir Jabotinsky        John Foster Dulles