| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Zionism | movement to create a Jewish nation in the middle east |
| 1800 | Individual Jews start promoting return of Jews to the homeland; Jersalem is not available (part of the Ottoman Empire) |
| pogroms | the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia, taking palce from the 1880s to 1925 |
| 1893 | Germany and Ottoman Empire make an alliance |
| 1914 | World War I starts: Britain, France, Russia (1917), and America (1917) against Germany, Austria, and Ottoman Empire |
| The Eastern Question | What will happen when the Ottoman Empire finally collapses? |
| Sykes- Picot Agreement | 1915, between Britain and France; will divide the Ottoman Empire between themselves |
| Hussein- McMahon Correspondance | 1916, between Islam and Britain; muslims help Britain win the war and Palestinians get their own state |
| Balfour Declaration | 1917, between Britain and the Jews; Jews will help Britain win the war and they will get their own state |
| 1918 | WWI ends; Balfour Declaration and Hussein McMahon are reneged upon; Sykes-Picot is arranged |
| Sykes-Picot (British half) | Britain gets Palestine, Transjordan, 1/2 of Iraq, and 1/2 Turkey |
| Sykes-Picot (French half) | France gets Syria, Lebanon, 1/2 of Iraq, and 1/2 of Turkey |
| British Mandate | 1918-1939, no Jewish power and no Palestinian power |
| Palestinian reaction to British Mandate | pissed off but no money, no education, no organization so NO OPPOSITION |
| Jewish reation to British Mandate | pissed off, have money, education, organization so OPPOSITION |
| Kibbutz | settlement in Israel where the people share property and produce goods |
| Haganah | oppositional group against Britain; peaceful, constitutional approach |
| Irgun | oppositional group against Britain; forceful, but mainly military targets |
| Stern Gang | oppositional group against Britain; forceful, civilian targets |
| 1939 | World War II begins |
| Consequences of WWII | Zionism increases (but violence does too); Britain gives up colonies and wants to give up Palestine |
| 1945 | World War II ends |
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