Middle East

  • McMahon-Hussein agreements

  • Sykes-Picot agreement

  • Balfour declaration

  • Hagnah set up

  • League of Nations hand mandate to Britain

  • Arab Jew clashes

  • Irgun set up

  • Arab Strike

  • Period: to

    Peel commission

  • Period: to

    Arab revolt

  • Britain limit Jewish immigration to Palestine

  • End of 2nd world war

    Jewish insurgency becomes 1500 per month
  • Start of Jewish insurgency

  • Britain refuses allowance of 100,000 Jews into Palestine

  • Bombing of Kind David's hotel

  • Britain asks UN to find solution

  • SS exodus turned back from Palestine

  • UNSCOP set up

  • Partition plan accepted

  • Period: to

    UNSCOP tours Palestine

  • Period: to

    Civil war

  • Creation of Israel

  • Israel created, Britain leave

  • Period: to

    First Arab Israeli war

  • UNRWA created

  • Law of return

  • Period: to

    Tension between Israel and Egypt increases

  • Nasser president of Egypt

  • Nasser announces arms deal with Czhechoslovakia

  • Us remove funding, Nasser nationalises Suez Canal

  • Sevres agreement and Suez crisis begins

  • End of Suez crisis

  • Samu incident / Egypt Syria defence pact

  • Creation of PLO

  • Arab states meet up

  • UN leave Straits of Tiran and Egypt, Jordan sign pact

  • Dog fight of planes

  • Period: to

    Six day war

  • Black September

  • Dawson field highjack

    Fatah
  • Munich olympics massacre

  • Yom Kippur War

  • Arafat speech to the UN

  • Period: to

    Shuttle Diplomacy

  • Reopening of Suez Canal

  • Sadat and Begin peace talks

  • Camp David Accords

  • Coastal road massacre

  • Treaty of Washington

  • Israel invasion of Lebanon

  • Period: to

    First Intifada

  • Gulf War

  • End of cold war

  • Oslo Accords , Setting up of PNA

  • Oslo II after which Assasination of Rabin

  • Period: to

    Second Intifada

  • Hamas wins elections in Gaza

  • Roadmap for peace

  • Period: to

    Gaza war