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Balfour Declaration
The first annocemnt of establishing a homeland for the Jewish peolpe in paleistine. -
The Holocaust
This event is when the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered. Mostly Jews. Ended in 1945. -
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
a plan for the future government -
The CatastropheAl Nakba
Movement called “political Zionism” began in Europe. A goal that was to created in a Jewish state somewhere in the world. -
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
A meeting known as the Palestinian Congress in an effort to give a voice to the large number of Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon. -
The Six-Day War
The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. Ended June 10. 1967 -
Darkness of Munich Olympics
A man named Berger returned from Munich to his native Cleveland in a coffin. He was one of 11 members of the Israeli team abducted and killed by Palestinian terrorists who invaded their dormitory. -
The Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. -
Camp David Accords
Agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours. -
1st Intifada
The Palestine-Israeli conflict was at the root of the Intifada that gave the world a different view of what was happening in the region between the two sides. -
Oslo Peace Accords
The Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements were signed by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington, DC, on September 13, 1993, after months of secret negotiations. -
NATO Summit: Madrid Summit
Madrid Declaration on Euro-Atlantic Security and Cooperation issued by the Heads of State and Government at the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council. -
2nd Intifada
It brought about the evacuation of the Gaza strip by Israel. It also brought home, even to many members of the hard line Likud part,y that the settlement project and the dream of "Greater Israel" was impossible to fulfill.
