1881 1882 pogroms in Russia reinforce Jewish national awakening. 1881 1882 pogroms in Russia reinforce Jewish national awakening. Auto-Emancipation Publication of Leo Pinsker's , calling for the establishment of a Jewish 1882 state. Beginning of the first wave of Zionist immigration to Palestine. Theodor Herzl attends the trial of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris and witnesses outpouring of French 1894 anti-Semitism. Der Judenstaat Herzl's (The Jewish State) published. 1896 1897 1915 Herzl convenes First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. 1897 Joseph Trumpeldor founds Zion Mule Corps of British Army in World War I, the first Jewish 1915 fighting unit in centuries. Sykes-Picot Agreement signed by Britain, France, and Russia. 1916 1917 1919 Balfour Declaration. 1917 Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson argues for self-determination of peoples. Jewish-Arab 1919 accord: Jews claim J ewish home in Palestine; Arabs claim Arab state from Iraq to Yemen excludingPalestine ( ). San Remo Conference. Valdimir Jabotinsky founds Haganah, the Jewish self-defense force, in 1920 Palestine. British decide to install Abdullah in 'Trans - Jordan.' Samuel appoints haj Amin al-Husseini 1921 grand mufti of Jerusalem. League of Nations officially ratifies British Mandate over Palestine, with aim of building 1922 Jewish National Home. Churchill White Paper creates 'Trans - Jordan' east of Jordan River, taking 78% of land allocated for British Mandate. Vladimir Jabotinsky founds Zionist Revisionism, forerunner of the Herut political party &the 1925 modern Likud Party Arab riots in Palestine. Massacre of Jews in Hebron and Safed. Arabs demand end to Jewish 1929 immigration. British White Paper limits Jewish immigration to Palestine. 1930 1933 1935 Hitler comes to power in Germany. 1933 The Nuremberg Laws 1935 Campaign of Arab violence in Palestine. Arab rioters murder 500 Jews and thousands of Arabs, - 1936 39 demanding an end to Jewish immigration. Arab nationalist movements riot to stop Jewish homeland in Palestine; throw their support to Hitler in World War II. British Peel Commission asserts that Jewish National Home cannot be built in Palestine. 1937 Recommends repartition of Palestine into tiny Jewish state ( %of total area) and Arab state in 5 remainder. Peel Plan is rejected by both Arabs and Jews. Britain halts Jewish immigration to Palestine, condemning millions of European Jews to the Holocaust. Munich Conference and betrayal of the Czechs. Hitler is given the Sudetenland. 1938 1939 Hitler overruns Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain White Paper announces end to Jewish National 1939 Home and promises control of immigration into Palestine to the Arabs within five years. British blockade Palestine against 'illegal' Jewish immigration. Hitler invades Poland. World War II begins. Mufti relocates to Berlin. Meets with Hitler; announces intention of creating 'fascist' Arab 1941 state, and agitates for the destruction of world Jewry. Instigates terrorism against Arab moderates also. Nazi conference at Wannsee decides on destruction of all Jews in Europe. 1942 1944 Jewish Brigade, part of the British forces, fights alongside the Allies. 1944

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