WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a decrease in oil prices
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The Palestinian effort to establish a homeland named Palestine
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the presence of United Nations forces in Saudi Arabia
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the worldwide rejection of violence as a means to end conflict
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which factor most contributed to Palestine becoming a contested territory in the 20th century? Great Britain had promised lands in Palestine to both Muslims and Jews. The Arab League considered Palestine to be its Middle Eastern capital.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hebrew name for the country was the designation “Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word “Palestine” in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Arabs and Jews from 1920, and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was based in Lebanon for a significant period of time (1960s-1982), using their set-up in the country to expand as an organization, gathering support and maintaining their armed struggle with Israel.