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Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916. -
Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a letter from a diplomat to Sir Rothschild stating that Great Britain recognize and support the movement to achieve a Jewish State in Palestine. -
British Mandate of Palestine
A Mandate passed by the League of Nations granting Britain a mandate over the area currently occupied by Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jordan. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. -
The Arab Revolt
The uprising of the Palestinians against the increasing immigrant Jews to Palestine -
The Nakba
On this day, more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or had to flee. Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated or demolished. This marks the day when the Palestinians lost their land to the Jews -
Suez Canal Crisis
On this day, Egypt regained power over the Suez Canal from the British, and they supposedly lost their title as a World Power -
1967 Six-Day War
This was a War between the newly formed country of Israel and its Arab neighbours Jordan, Egypt and Syria. This war lasted for 6 days only with Israel wiping out all of the three Arab Armies. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords was a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. The official agreement was signed on March 26, 1979 by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Anwar was viewed as a traitor by the rest of the Arab World for striking Peace with the enemy. -
Persian Gulf War
The War began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. A coaliton of over 30 countries repelled the Iraqi force and Iraq pulled out 6 days after occupying Kuwait.
