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World War I and the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire had long been the 'Sick Man of Europe,' hemorrhaging territory for nearly a century.Lost control of its European possessions prior to the war and, having allied with the defeated Central Powers, lost its Middle Eastern territories afterward -
Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire
In June 1916, as head of the Arab nationalists and in alliance with Britain and France, Sharif Hussein initiated the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule. -
Sykes-Picot Agreement Sets Borders
Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, laid down the borders of the Middle East as we have known them for a century.The agreement was marked out on a map with grease pencil in a series of straight lines, most likely to create uncomplicated borders. -
Arab Revolt in Palestine against British Mandate
In April 1936, what started as minor Arab-Jewish clashes quickly flared into a widespread revolt.During earlier Palestinian Arab uprisings, Jewish settlers often had restrained retaliation under the doctrine of the Havlaga, or restraint. -
Zionism and Early Jewish Immigration to Israel
Hundreds of thousands of Jews were moving into the area, as part of a movement called Zionism among mostly European Jews to escape persecution and establish their own state in their ancestral homeland
