1. Introduction: The Early Beginnings -- 2. The First Aliyah: 1882-1903 -- 3. Modern Political Zionism -- 4. The Second Aliyah: 1904-1914 -- 5. The First World War and the Balfour Declaration -- 6. The Early Years of British Rule in Palestine: 1917-1930 -- 7. Foreboding Times: Palestine in the 1930s -- 8. World War II Years -- 9. The Postwar Struggle for Independence.