| A | B |
|---|
| What are displaced persons? | People who were living in countries not their own and had no place to go. |
| What problems did the liberators encounter with with survivors? | Many of them were very sick and needed medical care, they needed immediate housing, trying to unite families, trying to resettle those who could not or would not go home. |
| What problems did survivors face? | depression, nightmares, overcrowded and dirty displaced persons camps, coping with life after all they had endured. |
| What country had control of Palestine? | Great Britain |
| Why would Great Britain not permit the Jews to emigrate to Palestine? | they were trying to preserve the remnants of their empire and they didn't want to alienate the Arabs who would be hostile. |
| Why did Americans not take in Jewish survivors? | Soldiers were coming coming home from the war and it was a time of transition for America. There was a fear that refugees would consume scarce resources and take jobs away from Americans. |
| How was Harry S. Truman preceived by the Jews. | Truman would become a hero to the Hews for recognizing Isreal as a state. He also intensified pressure on Great Britain to allow 100,000 Jews to emigrate to Palestine and he opened the United States to limited immigration |
| What committee was called by the British to buy some time and figure out what to do with the displaced Jews. | Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry |
| What did the Anglo-American Comission of Inquiry recommend? | sending Jews to Palestine |
| This was a pogrom that took place in a Polish town in July of 1946. A mob of Poles attacked Jews and 42 were killed and 50 wounded. | Pogrom in Kielce |
| What did the British do when a ship called Exodus was captured? | They sent the survivors back to Bergen-Belsen |
| What law was passed in Isreal that granted Jews immediate citizenship upon their arrival? | The 1950 Law of Return |
| What was the most significant positive consequence of the Holocaust? | the birth of Isreal. |
