History - Timeline of Jewish History - 1914-1918

Sykes-Picot Agreement divides Middle East into spheres of British and French influence: 1916.

Start of Arab revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule: 1916

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: 1917

Damascus taken by T.E. Lawrence and Arabs: 1918

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