On 2 November 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, stating that the government viewed 'with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people', on the understanding that nothing should prejudice the rights of existing non-Jewish communities. Britain, at war with the Ottomans, hoped for support from Jews in America and Russia. It had also promised Arab leaders independence in correspondence with Hussein. The League of Nations gave Britain the Mandate for Palestine in 1922, and the declaration lies at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Before and after
- from 25 October 1917 to 25 December 1991Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- from 25 October 1917 to 26 October 1917October Revolution
- 31 October 1917Battle of Beersheba
- from 1 November 1917 to 2 November 1917Third Battle of Gaza
- 2 November 1917The Balfour Declaration
- from 7 November 1917 to 18 March 1921Ukrainian People's Republic
- from 7 November 1917 to 25 October 1922Russian Civil War
- from 8 November 1917 to 17 November 1921Ukrainian War of Independence
- 14 November 1917Birth of Park Chung-hee
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- from 22 June 1941 to 7 May 1945Eastern Front
- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1944Golden Globes
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