Modern Israel/Palestine

By BrandanPhelps
  • Zionist Movement Begins

    Zionist Movement Begins

    Theodor Herzl founded the First Zionist Congress as a small symbolic parliament for the Jews
  • Balfour Declaration

    Balfour Declaration

    The Balfour Declaration was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • British Mandate Starts

    British Mandate Starts

    The British Empire gains control of Arab lands taken from the Ottomans
  • Arab Revolt

    Arab Revolt

    Arabs rebelled to demand independence from the British and to oppose mass Jewish immigration
  • Peel Commission

    Peel Commission

    A British Commission of Inquiry to investigate the unrest in Palestine.
  • White Paper

    White Paper

    A policy paper in which the British abandoned the idea of partitioning Palestine.
  • UN Partition Plan

    UN Partition Plan

    A plan to follow the removal of the Britsh Mandate to partition Palestine for separate Jewish an Palestinian states
  • State of Israel Declared

    State of Israel Declared

  • Arab Armies Invade

    Arab Armies Invade

    Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordinian armies invade Israel to take the land back.