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It was created by the Czar Catherine the first.
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He abandoned liberal leading.
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He was a brutal Czar. He forced people into the military to serve for 25 years. He designed Cantonist schools to convert Jews, which did not work. He also limited rights.
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He was a liberal Czar. He favored the wealthy, educated, and skilled people. When he was assasinated that was the end to liberal reforms. The Jews were blamed for his assasination.
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Cavour helped to unify the North, while Garibaldi helped to unify the South. However, Cavour is known as the father of Italian Unification.
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It was the second military conflict that was started when the Prussian forces crossed the border in Schleswig.
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This war was between Prussia, allied with ITaly, and Austria.
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This war was between the Second French Empire and the German states.
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Lead by Otto Van Bismarck, German Unification took place through provoking three different wars and eventually placing the Prussian king as Emperor of Germany.
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He was a brutal Czar, and created quotas. He also created the 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 plan. Where some cnvert some are dificult and some leave.
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Auto emancipation is an early Zionist pamphlet written in German by Russian-Polish Jewish doctor and activist Leo Pinsker
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European countires all scrambled to gain new territory from the land in Africa. This was an example of Imperialism in Europe. The month and day are a way to show that it was early 1882, as the exacts were unable to be found
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Geramny, Austria-Hungary, and Italy form an alliance. Eventually they become the Central Powers, and Italy leaves to join the opposite side.
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The first wave of Jews to immagrate to palestine in response to the movement to create a modern Jewish state.
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Bismarck called this conference in order to agree upon a way to regulate competition among the powers. They came up with effective occupation: standard recognition of territorial claims, however this lead to people using armed force against the natives.
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More brutal Czar. He had the Kishnev Pogroms withgovernment support.
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France had lost a war with Germany, and believed they should not have lost. They blamed their loss on a spy, and Alfred Dreyfus was accused of being that spy. He had an ufair trial and was convicted, and had a retrial, but still found guilty. Eventually he was exonerated. This event showed the rise of anti-semitism in Europe.
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This book releases his views on the hope for a Jewish state after witnessing the Dreyfus affair. It inspires the unemancipated Jews.
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It was opened in basel, Switzerland, and about 200 people from Jewish communities selected Herzl as the leader and followed his plan. They founded the World Zionist Organization. The goal was to have a Jewish state.
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The British offer Uganda and Herzl brings it to the ionist Congress. The majority are against it because it is not Israel.
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It was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan.
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Bloody Sunday was a massacre in Russia of demonstrators marking the start of the violent part of the Russian Revolution.
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A new wave of immagrants coame from Russia between 1905 and 1914. Had an effect on the Yishuv ( Settlement ), what the community would be called eventually. These people were commited to socialist ideals of having Israel.
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France, Russia, and Great Britain form an alliance. Eventually they become the Aliance and Russia drops out, but the U.S. enters along with Italy.
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Austria-Hungary claims Bosnia as their own, and as Serbia and Bosnia are allies and wanted to be independant together, this angers Serbia.
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Serbia declined the ultimatum given by Austria-Hungary, leading them to declare war.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand travels to Sarajevo on June 28, a holiday to the Serbians, who were angry that Austria Hungary was trying to take over Bosnia, their ally. The serbian Nationalist group, the Blackhand, prepared seven men to assasinate him, but the third failed. One of the men who was to assasinate went and ate a sandwich and heard a large noise outside, as the driver of the Archduke had gone the wrong way, so he went outside and shot him.
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Germany had fealt threatened after Russia had declared war, and placed demands on France and Russia, of which both countries declined.
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This was one of the factors that lead the U.S. to enter the World War I. Americans were on a British ship and it was shot down by the German.
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Germany had sent a note to Mexico stating that in exchange for support, Germany would help Mexico regain land taken by the U.S. in the Mexico American War. Britain intercepted the message and showed the U.S. This was another factor that lead the U.S. to enter the war.
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This revolution took apart Tsarist autocracy.
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The U.S soldiers arrive in France in 1918 (about 2,000,000 of them). The U.S. provides troops, money, and supplies. This gives France and Britain a morale boost.
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A letter from the United Kingdom's foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour to baron Rothschild a leader of the British Jewish community for transmission to the Zionist federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
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The war is called to an end.
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Treaty that blamed Germany for the war, took away some of their land, and did not allow them to have any military.
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Mussolini takes power by force with his Black Shirt extreme fascists. He becomes Primeminister in 1922.
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On this day, Russia and three other republics called USSR.
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Lenin died at his house in Gorki. After he died, there was struggle for power in the Soviet Union.
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The hite paper was a policy paper issued by the British government under the Neville chamberlain in which among several key provisions the idea of partitioning Palestine was abandoned.
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On September first 1939, Germany invades Poland, inducing Great Britain and France to declare war on GErmany.
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Surprise military strike by the Japanese on the U.S Navy in Hawaii.
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The largest naval landing in military history. It took place in different parts of France. They were trying to take supplies from France.
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Acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's surrender of its forces.
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The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the only nuclear weapon ever used.
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Celebration of the end of WW2.
