| 1916 |
Sykes-Picot
Agreement divides Middle East into spheres of
British and French influence. |
| 1916 |
Start of Arab revolt against Ottoman
Turkish rule. |
| 1917 |
British capture Baghdad. |
| 1917 |
Jewish Telegraphic Agency is founded. |
| 1917 |
Four-hundred years of Ottoman rule ended by British
conquest. |
| 1917 |
The Balfour
Declaration favors Jewish Palestinian State. |
| 1917 |
As WWI comes closer to Tel-Aviv
and Jaffa, the Turkish Governer of Jaffa orders
all Jews to leave Tel-Aviv and Jaffa. |
| 1917 |
Jews granted full rights in Russia. |
| 1917 |
Russian Revolution breaks out, heavy fighting
in the South and West, where over 3 million Jews
live. Over 2000 pogroms took place, claiming the
lives of up to 200,000 Jews in the next three years. |
| 1917 |
The United States declared war on Germany. Appoximately
250,000 Jewish soldiers (20% of whom were volunteers)
served in the U.S. Army, roughy 5.7% while Jews
only made up 3.25% of the general American population. |
| 1917 |
The Jewish Welfare Board is created and serves
the social and religious requirements of Jewish
soldiers; expands after the war. |
| 1917 |
355,000 people chose representatives for the first
American Jewish Congress. |
| 1917 |
Over 2,700 men volunteer for the new Jewish
Legion of the British Army which fought in Transjordan,
among other places. |
| 1917 |
Vladamir Ilyich Lenin and Leon Trotsky ousted
Kerensky and took over the Russian government. |
| 1917 |
British General Allenby captured Jerusalem from
the Turks, ending Ottoman rule. |
| 1918 |
Damascus taken by T.E. Lawrence and Arabs. |
