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First Aliyah 1882 – 1903
            approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, a province of the Ottoman Empire

Second Aliyah 1904 – 1914
          approximately 40,000 Jews immigrated mainly from Russia to Palestine,
          a province of the Ottoman Empire

The Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 - (May 16, 1916)
            divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula
            into areas of future British and French control or influence

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 - November 2, 1917
           British government favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home
           for the Jewish people

The Armistice of Moudros - October 31,1918
              ended the hostilities in Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire 
           and the WWI Allies

Anglo-French Declaration - November 7, 1918
            France and Great Britain agreeing to implement a "complete and final liberation"
            of countries that had been part of the Ottoman Empire 

The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement - January 3, 1919
            short-lived agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a .
            Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East

The Treaty of Versailles - June 29, 1919
         required Germany to accept sole responsibility for causing the war

The Syrian National Congress - July 1919 
        inquiry on the future of Greater Syria after the fall of the Ottoman Empire

The Paris Peace Conference - Janruary 18, 1919
           reshaped the map of Europe and the world, created new countries.

The League of Nations (LON) first meeting - January 16, 1920 
           principle mission was to maintain world peace

The Conference of London - February 12 - 24, 1920
           Britain, France, and Italy met to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon - April 25, 1920
          French controlled the rest of Ottoman Syria 
          (modern Syria, Lebanon, Alexandretta and other portions of southeastern Turkey)

The Treaty of Sèvres - August 10,1920
          the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I

The British Mandate for Palestine - July 24, 1922  
          was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine
          which came into effect September 26, 1923

Fifth Aliyah 1929 – 1939
           increase in Jewish immigration

The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930
       to give British a variety of commercial and military rights within the country 
       after independence

The Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence - March - September 1936
            to provide for Syrian independence from French authority

The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
            against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration which was suppressed

League of Arab States 1945
            formed in Cairo March 22, 1945

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - November, 29 1947
            The resolution recommended the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine
            and the partition of the territory into two states, one Jewish and one Arab

Israeli declaration of independence - May 15, 1948

The occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt
            1948 to October 1956, (March 1957 to June 1967 and 1978)

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu - Born October 21, 1949
          The first and only Prime Minister born in Israel after its foundation.

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War
            Israeli victory over Egypt ,Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon
            Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army, Muslim Brotherhood

The 1949 Armistice Agreements
            established armistice lines between Israel and the Jordanian-held West Bank

Operation Magic Carpet - June 1949 - September 1950 
            transport entire communities of Jews from Arab countries to Israel 

The Tripartite Declaration of 1950
        which guaranteed the territorial status quo determined by
        Arab - Israeli armistice agreements

Operation Ezra and Nehemiah 1950 to 1952
            airlifted 120–130,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel

The 1964 Arab League summit
            Cairo - January 13-16 1964, Alexandria - September 1964

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 1964
            founded May 28, 1964

The Six-Day War or June War - June 5, 1967 –  June 10, 1967
           Decisive Israeli victory over states of Egypt [known then as the United Arab Republic (UAR)], 
           Jordan, and Syria