30 cardsTawjihi (Palestinian General Secondary Examination), Literary Stream

Tawjihi Humanities Timeline and Civics

Key dates in Palestinian and Arab history and the main ideas of civics for the Tawjihi literary stream.

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Umar ibn al-Khattab received the surrender of Jerusalem.
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691-692
The Dome of the Rock was completed under Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
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1099
The Crusaders captured Jerusalem.
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1187
Salah al-Din won at Hattin and recovered Jerusalem.
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1260
The Mamluks won at Ain Jalut.
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1516-1517
The Ottomans under Selim I conquered Palestine, Syria and Egypt.
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1915-1916
The Hussein-McMahon correspondence.
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1916
The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France.
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2 November 1917
The Balfour Declaration.
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December 1917
British forces entered Jerusalem.
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1922
The League of Nations approved the British Mandate for Palestine.
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1936-1939
The Great Arab Revolt.
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1939
The British White Paper limited Jewish immigration.
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29 November 1947
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan.
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1948
The end of the Mandate and the Nakba.
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1964
The founding of the PLO.
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June 1967
The Six-Day War. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Sinai and the Golan.
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November 1967
UN Security Council Resolution 242.
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1987
The First Intifada began.
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15 November 1988
The Declaration of Independence in Algiers.
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13 September 1993
The Oslo Declaration of Principles.
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1994
The Palestinian Authority was established.
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1996
The first Palestinian general elections.
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2000
The Second Intifada began.
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29 November 2012
Palestine became a non-member observer state at the UN.
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1945
The United Nations and the Arab League were founded.
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1948 (December)
The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Three branches of government
Executive, legislative and judicial.
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Rule of law
Everyone, including officials, must obey the law.
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Basic Law
The document that sets out the structure of the Palestinian Authority and citizens' rights.