This new edition has been revised to reflect the demands of the Modern World History GCSE specifications and to be brought up-to-date with current developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Combining lively narrative with an excellent range of written and visual sources, the book also contains features that aid students in their understanding of the topic and development of study skills.

This book is part of a book series called Hodder Twentieth Century History .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Hodder Education .

Michael Scott-Baumann (Chapter 7) is an experienced history teacher and author

This book has the following chapters: 1 The Jewish Claim to Palestine 2 The Arab Claim to Palestine 3 British Rule in Palestine, 1919-39 4 Terrorism and the End of British Rule 5 Partition and the Birth of Israel 6 The War of 1948-9 7 The Origins of the Suez War of 1956 8 The Events of the Suez War, 1956 9 The Causes of the Six-Day War of 1967 10 The Results of the Six-Day War, 1967 11 The Yom Kippur War of 1973 12 A People Without a Home - the Palestinian Refugees 13 The Palestine Liberation Organisation 14 War in Lebanon 15 Peacemaking at the UN and Camp David 16 The Role of the Superpowers (the USA and the USSR) 17 The Palestinian Intifada, 1987-93 18 Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking in the 1990s 19 The Problems of Peacemaking 20 Suicide Bombing and Assassination, 1995-9 21 The Second Intifada, 2000-05 22 Prospects for Peace