Pages 15-22 and Questions

1. What was Zionist policy in Palestine in the late 1930's?
2. How did Zionist policy change after the war?
3. Why was US support so important for the Zionists?
4. Why and how did the Zionists resort to terrorism in Palestine?
5. What was the response to the UNSCOP report?
6. Why was there a civil war in Palestine?

1. The policy was to keep Jewish affairs such as education for Jewish children and they wanted to partition.
2. First there many priority was to support the English in the war, once it was over there many concern was picking things back up which the British didn't want, after loosing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust the Jews refused to be silent and began terrorists attacks.
3.Because the Zionists needed the second superpower to but pressure on the British to make a separate Jewish state, and they though if they could pressure all the Jewish people in the united states they could pressure there own government.
4.Because they felt like they were being ignored and could not be patient and though that by having separate states they could take in more immigrants from the Holocaust survivors. They began to target British military bases, railroads, and bridges.
5. Jews were very happy about it but the Arabs still declined the idea by the UN.
6.Because the Arabs were upset with the British and the Jews, they wanted their land back not to be separated, and other neighboring countries tried to help out the Arabs get land and kick out the Jews.