1. Homework Africa Review Book Questions due tomorrow. Outline on Political Systems due tomorrow. Castle Learning #6 due tomorrow at 11:59 pm. Practice Regents Friday. Please bring in your textbooks ASAP. Make sure your name is in it.

2. Information about the Regents Tuesday, June 14 from 8:15-11:15 am. Be here no later than 8:00 am! – Period 1: Room 158 – Period 9: Room 160 If you receive extra time or are an ELL student, you must report to room 208. Bring Pens! You must fill in the scantron and do the two essays in pen. Remember, don’t fill in anything on the scantron until you are absolutely sure of your answer. Bring your textbook and review book to the final if you have not returned them already.

3. Multiple Choice (50 questions) Keep doing practice questions! Look over the castle learning assignments, the packets you got in class and during the review sessions, and websites like www.regentsprep.org and http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeogr aphy/ (links to these are available on my website).www.regentsprep.org http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeogr aphy/ Use the yellow packet and the review book to study!

4. Thematic Essay Look over the green Thematic Essay packet I distributed. Be prepared to write about about at least two topics under EACH theme.

5. DBQ Read the documents slowly and carefully and make sure you get the scaffolding questions right! Answer them in complete sentences. Remember to use specific information from the documents to support your argument and to cite the minimum number of documents they ask for. For example: – (Document 5) or In Document 5….. Don’t quote from the documents! The whole essay needs to be in your own words. Remember to also include outside information not mentioned in the documents to support your argument. If you do not include any outside information, the highest grade you can get on the DBQ is a 3.

6. I. Israeli Palestinian Conflict A. Palestine controlled by Britain until 1948: Britain had promised to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine after World War I (The Balfour Declaration), but broke their promise. Still, with anti-Semitism rising in Europe during the 1930s, many Jews immigrate to Palestine. B. After the Holocaust, UN agrees to give Jews their own state in Palestine called Israel. 1.UN partitions Palestine into two states – one Jewish, one Arab (1948) 2.Arabs NO NOT accept the partition plan and war breaks out. United Nations Partition of Palestine (1948)

7. C. 1948 War 1.After partition, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria & Jordan attack Israel. 2.Israel holds all of its own land, plus some of the land originally designated for a Palestinian state. 3.Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee to Arab states – 700,000 were refused entry into other Arab countries are were forced to live in refugee camps. They faced terrible poverty and discrimination.

8. D. Six Day War (1967) 1.Egypt blockades Israeli shipping route, Israel interprets as an act of war. 2.Israeli forces attack Egypt and Syria, defeating them in six days. 3.Israel takes three key pieces of land: a.Sinai Peninsula (bordering Egypt) b.West Bank (bordering Jordan) c.Golan Heights (bordering Syria)

9. E. Camp David Accords (1979) 1. Anwar Sadat (leader of Egypt), Jimmy Carter (U.S. President) and Menachem Begin (Prime Minister of Israel) sign an agreement to establish peace between Egypt and Israel. 2. Israel gives Egypt back the Sinai Peninsula, in return Egypt accepts Israel’s right to exist (“land for peace”). 3. Sadat assassinated by Muslim radicals in Egypt opposed to peace with Israel.

10. F. Rise of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) 1.Formed in 1964 to deal with the problem of displaced Palestinians. 2.Used terrorist tactics to get its demands met: a. Bombings in Israel b. Attack and kill Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics 3. Led by Yassir Arafat 4. Intifada (“uprising”): In late 1980s and 1990s, young Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza began use boycotts, demonstrations and attacks on Israeli soldiers to fight for a Palestinian state.

11. G. Recent Peace Efforts 1.PLO and Arafat publicly renounce terrorism in 1988, accept Israel’s right to exist 2.Secret Meetings between Israel and the PLO lead to a peace agreement in 1993 (Oslo Peace Accords) a. Palestinians promised self-rule in Gaza Strip (Sinai Peninsula) and Jericho (West Bank). b. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Israelis who opposed peace treaty with the PLO. 3. In 2005, Israel finally began withdrawing settlers and soldiers from Gaza and the West Bank. 4. In 2006, Palestinians elected the political party Hamas to rule in Gaza. Hamas has used terrorist methods, such as rockets and suicide bombings against Israel. In 2008, Israel attacked Gaza, dimming hopes for a peace settlement.

12. II. Islamic Fundamentalism – Iranian Revolution of 1979, removed U.S. backed dictator (Shah), installed anti-US theocratic government – Iran Iraq War in 1980s, U.S. supported Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iran’s theocratic government. Eventually, the U.S. turns on Saddam, fights the Persian Gulf War against him in 1991 (when he tries to take over the oil rich country of Kuwait) and removes him from power in 2003 (we thought he had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false). – Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, supported Al-Qaida terrorist organization, oppressed women, removed from power by U.S. in 2001, still a present threat, NATO leaving Dec. 2014, all U.S. forces leaving by 2016, future uncertain.

13. III. Arab Spring (2011-2013) A. Push for democracy across north Africa and the Middle East B. Dictators in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt removed from power but has led to confusion, chaos, and uncertainty for the future C. Syrian Civil War has claimed more than 100,000 lives with millions living in UN refugee camps in neighboring countries

14. IV. OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) A. Middle Eastern countries with large oil fields try to regulate prices B. Trade embargo of the US in 1970s for supporting Israel in wars