The British
What the temporary British government of Palestine was called.
The British Mandate
The new name of Jordan, given to the country by the British.
Emirate of Transjordan
Place the Jews called home that was in the hands of others.
Land of Israel
The British paper that promised the Jews they could have a homeland in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
Number of states to be created by the UN Partition Plan
2
The organization to which the British gave up control of Palestine
United Nations
Kinds of opportunities kibbutzim offered the Arabs
Economic
Name of the Jewish collective farms and towns in Palestine.
Kibbutz
Paper that proposed the creation of 2 states
Peel Commission Report
Status of Jerusalem under the Partition Plan
International city
How the British mandate felt about the creation of a Jewish state, at first
Supported it
Anti-Jewish actions of the Arabs in Jerusalem in the 1920s
Riots
What most countries did in 1939, including the US (as the Holocaust was beginning)
Closed off immigration
What the British white paper did
Restricted Jewish migration into Palestine
How many countries opposed the Partition Plan
13
Organization that turned the Mandates over to the British
League of Nations
Event just one day after the State of Israel was created
Surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel
How the Jews felt about the UN Partition Plan
Less than what they wanted but accepted
The year of the white paper
1939
Result of the UN Partition Plan approval
Creation of the State of Israel
How the British wind up in control of Palestine
They won it from Turkey in WWI
Surprising result of the Arab war against Israel
Israel won
Israel gained land in the War of Independence - true or false
True
1917
Year of the UN Partition Plan
1948