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World War 1
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914 in Sarajevo a Bosnian city in conjunction with Austrian troop exercises that were being held nearby kicked off the war. the group the performed the assassination was called The Black Hand. -
The Balfour Declaration
On 2nd November 1917, the British Government made the following declaration in a letter from Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, president of the British Zionist Federation -
Paris Peace Treaty
the drawing of new national boundaries which followed the conclusion of the First World War. in March 1920, a Syrian congress held in Damascus rejected the Balfour Declaration and elected Faisal King of a united Syria, including Palestine. The French then deposed Faisal in July 1920. -
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Jewish Settlment in Palestine
The Jewish population in Palestine increased to 678,000 by 1946. During the period between 1919 and 1946, the development of the country in turn attracted alot of immagration and the population doubled. -
World War 2
This was the war that involved Adolf Hitler and his genocide on millions of people, not just the Jweish. It was everyone but the aryan race because he believed that they were the superior people. this war ended in 1945 -
The Post-War Immigration Crisis
After the war, Britain was anxious to consolidate its Middle East interests. Priorities included control of oil supplies and maintenance of the sea route to the Persian Gulf and the Far East, all of which required Arab cooperation and friendship. British troops were shipped to Palestine to meet the growing Jewish resistance. Leaders of the Jewish resistance groups were arrested. Some were imprisoned, some deported and some hung. -
Israel's Independence
On 14th May 1948 the British flag was lowered and the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was proclaimed. The next morning units of the regular armies of Syria, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, with volunteers from Saudi Arabia and the Sudan, crossed the frontiers. It was the beginning of the war described by Israel as the War of Independence