Pogroms and Palestine

Modern Jewish immigration to Palestine began in about 1880 with pogroms in Eastern Europe.

From 1904 through 1914 other waves of European Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine. I believe that it was in the later part of this period that the British conquered Palestine. The conquering army included the Jewish Legion which contained many Zionists.

In 1920 Palestinians 'rioted' in resistance to the British giving Jews great rights to Palestinian lands.

Before 1922 Jews had created a military 'defense' in Palestine. In 1922 the League of Nations gave mandate over Palestine to Britain.

A third and fourth waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine between about 1919 and 1929 came against the will of the Palestinian people.

I about 50 years over 200,000 European Jews entered tiny Palestine to satay. Then, in a fifth wave of Europeans, 250,000 more came.

Between 1936 and 1939 Palestinians 'revolted' at what they experienced as a hostile invasion.

After 1945 England found itself in violent conflict with European Zionists and threw up their hands (washed). Soon the UN partitioned Palestine.

In 1948 'European' Jews claimed Palestine.

In "comments" please correct my errors or ad pertinent facts and details.

1939 Happenings and States of Affairs

~ Germany invades Poland

~ Russia invades Poland
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt president of US
~ WWII begins~ Average price for a new car about $700
~ President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein urging the development of an atomic bomb program

~ "Gone With the Wind" premiered
~ DC Comics published its second superhero, Batman, in Detective Comics #27
~ The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, NY
~ Geraldine Carroll Sheehan, artist, communicator, teacher, genealogist, photographer, wife, mother, sister, and wondrous woman born in the final month of the year.
~ Lou Gehrig retired after playing in a record of 2130 major league baseball games
~ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced by Montgomery Ward stores
~ first jet aircraft flight
~ Laura E. Settle was CRTA president
~ Madrid surrender ends Spanish Civil War
~ Russo-Finish War
~ Italy invades Albania
~ As Germany and Italy supported Franco in Spanish Civil war, some call that war the beginning of WWII
~ John Dewey's Freedom and Culture was published
~ Joliot-Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting the atom
~ Paul Muller synthesizes DDT
~ Igor Sikorsky (Russ-Amer) constructs first helicopter
~ Frank Buchman re-forms Oxford Group as Moral Re-Armament
~ Earthquake in Turkey kills 45,000
~ Anglo-Saxon burial ship excavated at Sutto Hoo, Suffolk
~ Coal Strike by United Mine Workers demonstrates power of united people.
~ C. S. Forester's Captain Horatio Horn Blower is published
~ Popular songs in US included "God Bless America," "Three Little Fishes," and "Roll Out the Barrel"
~ AF of L organizer, Tom Mooney, freed from California prison
~ Communication Workers of America union founded

California Retired Teachers' Association

Happenings and times important to CRTA people:
1913 First retirement law was passed by the Legislature granting teachers $500 annually.
1925 A group of nine teachers met in Pasadena and created what would later become the first division of CRTA.
1929 The first car radio was made by Motorola.
1929 Retired teachers met at Sycamore Grove and organized the "Southern California Retired Teachers Association." At a second meeting that year they dropped the word "Southern."
1931 The Star spangled Banner became the national anthem.
1939 WWII began.
1941 CRTA Board signed the Articles of Incorporation.
1951 Laura E. Settle died and CRTA created the Laura E. Settle Loan and Scholarship Fund.
1954 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama which set the American Civil rights Movement in Motion.
1964 The Beatles appeared on the E Sullivan Show.
1968 The First CRTA Business Office was opened in Napa, California
1969 Man first walked on the moon.
1989 The www was 'invented.'
1989 The Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account (SBMA) was established to maintain the purchasing power of retired teachers.
1996 The first sheep was cloned.
2000 The Fremont-Union City-Newark Division was formed bringing the total number of CRTA divisions to 88.
2008 CRTA successfully lobbied to increase the SBMA to 85% from 80%.
2009 You identify and help create your lobbies.