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Unit 2: Change and conflict (The changing world order, 1945 onwards)
Quick questions on Middle East conflicts, 1945-2000 (VCE Modern History Unit 2)
9short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is balfour Declaration?Show answer
British supported a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. British Mandate (1920-1948).
What is holocaust and Jewish migration?Show answer
Drove demand for a Jewish state.
What is uN Partition Plan?Show answer
Recommended Jewish and Arab states with Jerusalem internationalised. Accepted by Jewish Agency, rejected by Arab states.
What is establishment of Israel?Show answer
Declaration of independence. Recognised by US and USSR. Five Arab states invaded the next day.
What is 1948 War?Show answer
Israel survived; territory expanded beyond UN partition lines. Approximately $750\,000$ Palestinians displaced (the Nakba, "catastrophe"); refugee crisis persists to the present.
What is oil embargo?Show answer
OPEC Arab states embargoed countries supporting Israel. Quadrupled oil prices; triggered the 1973-1974 recession in the West.
What is background?Show answer
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's modernising authoritarianism since 1953 (after CIA coup against Mossadegh).
What is revolution?Show answer
Mass protests led by Ayatollah Khomeini (in exile in Paris). Shah fled (January 1979). Khomeini returned (February 1979).
What is hostage crisis?Show answer
Iranian students seized US Embassy in Tehran, held $52$ American hostages for $444$ days. Carter's failed rescue attempt (Operation Eagle Claw, April 1980).