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Zionist Movement Begins
Theodor Herzl founded the First Zionist Congress as a small symbolic parliament for the Jews -
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
The British Empire gains control of Arab lands taken from the Ottomans -
Arab Revolt
Arabs rebelled to demand independence from the British and to oppose mass Jewish immigration -
Peel Commission
A British Commission of Inquiry to investigate the unrest in Palestine. -
White Paper
A policy paper in which the British abandoned the idea of partitioning Palestine. -
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
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Arab Armies Invade
Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordinian armies invade Israel to take the land back.
