Includes maps of: 1920 San Remo Allocation of Mandates; 1937 Peel Commission Plan; Jewish Land Ownership in Palestine, 1947; 1947 UN Partition Proposal; Central Palestine, 1948; Palestinian-Arab Territories Captured in 1948 and 1949; Cease-fire Lines after the Six Day War, 1967; Zones of Control in Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli Invasion; Oslo Accords Military/Security Control Zones; Expansion of Jerusalem into the West Bank.

Early Zionism before the Balfour declaration -- World War I and the Balfour declaration (1917) -- The League of Nations mandate system (1922) -- Britain curbs Jewish statehood and immigration (1938-1942) -- Britain withdraws from Palestine (1948) -- UN proposal for partition (1947) Civil war (December, 1947 to May, 1948) -- International war (May, 1948 to December, 1948) -- Uneasy settlement of the 1948 War -- Border turmoil in the name of Israeli security (1948-1955) -- International Cold War politics and the Suez War (1956) -- External and internal stresses on Israel (1956-1967) -- Cold War polarization of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1957-1966) -- Precipitation of the Six Day War (1967) -- The Six Day War and its consequences -- The Yom Kippur War (1973) and its antecedents -- The PLO, the West Bank and the Lebanon Wars (1982) -- Likud's greater-Israel dram and the intifada (1988) -- The Oslo Accords and the demise of the peace process (1988).