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Zionist Movement
The Zionist Movement is formed in response to growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Zionism was a Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews. -
Sykes-Picot Agreement
A secret agreement between France and Great Britain. It was an agreement to eliminate or change the borders in the Middle East states. -
Balfour Declaration
Th Balfour Declaration pledges its support home for the Jewish people. This was letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. -
Great Britian Rules Palestine
The League of Nations grants Great Britain mandate to rule Palestine. The concept of a National Jewish Home in Palestine as set forth in the Balfour Declaration was approved by the League of Nations Council on July 24, 1922, and endorsed by a joint resolution of the United States Congress on June 30, 1922. The "Mandate for Palestine" was issued by the League of Nations. -
Arab Revolt
Arab revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British. They were mad that they were being dictated by Great Britain. This confict lasted for three years. 1.000 Arabs and 400 Jews died during this time -
Peel Commission
The Peel Commission, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in Palestine. Its recommendation was to separate the two groups. -
White Paper States Great Britian Abandons The Jewish State
The White Paper in 1939 severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate. The White Paper said only 75K Jews could immigrate to Palestine. -
WWII Begins - Hilter Kills Jews
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland. They hated Jews. After WWII, over 6 Million Jews died. -
The Irgun Movement Resumes
The Irgun was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the older and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. -
Irgun Bombs King David Hotel
90 are killed. This was where the British military was headquartered. -
British Mandates Ends in 1948
Britain no longer rules Palestine. Two days later Sryia,Egypt, Lebannon invade Palestine. -
PLO is formed
The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians -
Isarel Defeats Egypt - 6 Day War
The Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies were decisively defeated, and Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. The 1967 war, which lasted only six days, established Israel as the dominant regional military power -
Yom Kippur War
Many of Israel’s soldiers were away from their posts observing Yom Kippur (or Day of Atonement), and the Arab armies made impressive advances with their up-to-date Soviet weaponry. On October 25, an Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire was secured by the United Nations. -
Israel Celebrates 50 Years of Independence
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War or the First Arab–Israeli War was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states, forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It has been 50 Years since then. This divide Palestine into three areas: an Arab state, a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. -
Israel invest Palenstine
Operation "Defensive Shield" was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. It was the largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
