Yellow Workbook Pages 112 -116

Match the descriptions with the correct group

• Israel

• Site of continual conflict between Israelis and Palestinians

• Shiites/Shia

• Fundamentalist Muslims overtook the government of the country in 1979

• Gaza Strip

• Palestinians deny its right to exist

• Iran

• Iraqi Sunnis are in conflict with this group in Iran

Give 2 reasons that Europeans practiced antisemitism.

Name 2 things European governments did to restrict Jews.

Antisemitism spread rapidly when what political party came to power in Germany?

What happened to the Jews once the new party took over in Germany.

Put the questions in Chronological Order

• The Nazi Party comes to power in Germany

• Antisemitism starts to develop in Europe

• Many Jewish immigrants flee Europe for Palestine

• Jews are persecuted in Germany

• Israel is created as a country.

Put the statements in the appropriate category

Groups:

(a) Fact

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(b) Opinion

• Hitler intended to rid the world of its "Jewish problem."

• Jews were forced to live in ghettos

• People who disagree with Hitler are foolish

• British should have ended their resistance to creation of a Jewish State earlier.

• The Jews of the world needed to be reminded of the goals of Zionism

• We should remember the Holocaust so it never happens again.

Because Jews faced discrimination in European nations

• The Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish population.

• Zionists sought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

• Palestine was divided into 2 nations, including Israel

• Jewish people had nowhere to live in Europe.

Because Hitler saw the Jewish people as a problem

• The Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish population.

• Zionists sought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

• Palestine was divided into 2 nations, including Israel

• Jewish people had nowhere to live in Europe.

Because Jewish communities in Europe were destroyed during the Holocaust

• The Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish population.

• Zionists sought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

• Palestine was divided into 2 nations, including Israel

• Jewish people had nowhere to live in Europe.