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First Zionist Congress
Organized by Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political zionism, establishing a legally assured home for Jews. Zionists committed themselves to return to ancient homeland. -
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
Henry McMahon promised Sharif Hussein independence to most arab areas. -
Balfour Declaration
Britsih promised to create a Jewish homeland. -
British Mandate for Palestine
Britain was given Palestine Mandate. League of Nation divided lands between the British and French. During same period the Arab population doubled from natural increase and immigrantion. -
The Holocaust and world war 2
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. -
UN Partition Plan
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal developed by the United Nations, which recommended a partition with Economic Union of Mandatory Palestine to follow the termination of the British Mandate. -
1948 War
First Arab-Israeli was and is known in Israel as the War of Independence and by the Palestinian Arabs as the Catastrophe. -
Establishment of the PLO
PLO was formed with the aim of destroying Israel and creating a Palestinian state in its place. -
Six-Day War / 1967 Arab-Israel
Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordann the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. -
Khartoum Resolution / Attrition Battles / The War of Attrition
