| A | B |
|---|
| 1956 - Suez Crisis | Egyptian President Nasser NATIONALIZED the Suez Canal |
| 1967 - "6 Day War" | Arab attempt to get rid of Israel - backfires Israel gets "Occuppied Territories" |
| "Occupied Territories" | land Israeli controlled - West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights- Palestinians/Arabs want it back |
| 1979 Camp David Accords | 1st Arab-Israeli PEACE agreement - Israel recognized, Egypt gets Sinai Peninsula |
| Balfour Declaration | British say Jews have a right to a homeland in Palestine |
| Diaspora | dispersal, scattering (Jews in 73 AD, Palestinians in 1947) |
| Holocaust | Hitler's attempt to get rid of all Jews in Europe |
| Intifada | Palestinian "Uprisings" in West Bank & Gaza Strip today [2000 AD) |
| martyr | someone who dies for a cause |
| nationalize | to take over |
| P.L.O. | fighting for a Palestinian homeland |
| refugee | someone forced to flee their land |
| West Bank | Israeli occuppied territory with Palestinian majority |
| Ehud Barak | present leader of Israel |
| Yasser Arafat | leader of P.L.O. [Palestine Liberation Organization] |
| Yitzhak Rabin | tried to negotiate peace with Palestinians in 1990s - assassinated for it |
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian leader who signed Camp David Accords - assassinated |
| Menachem Begin | Israeli leader who signed Camp David Accords |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Egyptian leader who NATIONALIZED the Suez Canal [1956] - led to war |
| Zionism | the belief that Jews should have a homeland in Israel - late 1800s - started Jewish return |
