... and further, to create an alliance with the Middle East. Moreover, the US had used fear along with intimidation which Dean Rusk, head of the State Department's UN desk in Washington had clearly indicated President Truman intended to support the partition, the way he used pressure applied by American and Jewish representatives in all nations around the world to get the ... time, resulted in the establishment of the Jewish state. In the partition agreement made by UNSCOP, the Jewish state containing 538 000 Jews and 397 000 Arabs, covered 15 000 square kilometres of Palestine, however the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... economic growth. I also learned that between 1830 and today, 15,000 patents were granted to black inventors. There were also many African-American pioneers of Industrial Revolution in America. George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. In education, like "old" immigrants from Europe, the "newest" immigrants from Asia faced serious problems of ethnic ... rid of other people, not only the Jews, but they were singled out for total annihilation. On Yom Kippur, 2 million Jews were forced to live in an area les...

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• Grade Level: High School

... economic growth. I also learned that between 1830 and today, 15,000 patents were granted to black inventors. There were also many African-American pioneers of Industrial Revolution in America. George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. In education, likeold? immigrants from Europe, thenewest? immigrants from Asia faced serious problems of ethnic adjustment, yet ... rid of other people, not only the Jews, but they were singled out for total annihilation. On Yom Kippur, 2 million Jews were forced to live in...

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• Grade Level: High School

... self-rule in Israeli-occupied territories. The Gaza-Jericho Agreement was signed in Cairo on May 4, 1994, and applies to the Gaza Strip and to a defined area of about 65 square kilometers including Jericho and its environs. The Gaza-Jericho agreement addresses four main issues -- security arrangements, civil affairs, legal matters, and economic relations. The document includes agreement to a withdrawal of ... Israel and the Palestinian Authority. After intensive diplomatic efforts by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Yasser Arafat agreed on September 29,...

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• Grade Level: High School