Issues
41 issues found.
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Balfour Declaration (1917)
A letter authored by the British Foreign Minister, Lord Arthur James Balfour, on 2 November 1917, and subsequently endorsed by the British cabinet. -
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Britain France Milestones Ottoman Empire Sykes-Picot Agreement Transjordan United States World War IAn international conference held in Paris during 1919, following the conclusion of World War I. -
First Palestine Arab Congress in Jerusalem (1919)
Faisal of Syria and Iraq (1885-1933) Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones Palestine Arab CongressesThe first of a series of Palestine Arab Congresses that took place from 1919 to 1928. -
League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (1922)
A legal document adopted by the League of Nations on 24 July 1922. -
Transjordan Memorandum (1922)
Boundary Agreements: Jordan League of Nations Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones TransjordanA document in which the British Government exercised its right to separate the territory east of the Jordan River, hence known as Transjordan, from the territory of the Mandate for Palestine. -
Franco-British Agreement on Northern Border (Paulet-Newcombe Agreement, 1923)
Boundary Agreements: Lebanon Boundary Agreements: Syria Britain France Golan Heights Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) MilestonesAn agreement between Britain and France establishing the border between their Mandatory territories of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, following the work of a joint boundary commission. -
Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936-9)
An uprising conducted by Palestinian Arabs against the British Mandatory Government and the Jewish population of Palestine from 1936 to 1939. -
Peel Commission Report (1937)
Arab Revolt Britain Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones Partition Peel Commission Transjordan Woodhead CommissionThe final report issued by the Palestine Royal Commission, better known as the Peel Commission, on 7 July 1937. -
Woodhead Commission (Palestine Partition Commission) Report (1938)
Abdullah I of Jordan (1882-1951) Britain Jewish Agency Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones Partition Peel Commission Woodhead CommissionThe final report issued by the Palestine Partition Commission on 9 November 1938. -
Jewish Agency Partition Proposal to the Woodhead Commission (1938)
Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973) Jewish Agency Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones Partition Unilateral Initiatives: Jewish/Israeli Woodhead CommissionA proposal submitted by the Jewish Agency, chaired by David Ben-Gurion, to the Woodhead Commission, a British Royal Commission mandated with drawing up proposals for the partition of Palestine. -
UNSCOP Report (1947)
Britain Economic Union Federation Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones Minority Rights PartitionThe final report issued by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947. -
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 - Partition Plan (1947)
A resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 1947 by a vote of 33 For (including the United States and the Soviet Union), 13 Against, 10 Abstaining (including Britain), 1 Absent. -
1948 War
Known in Israel as the War of Independence, and in the Arab World as the Nakba (Catastrophe). -
Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel (1948)
1948 War Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) Milestones People's Council People's Executive Provisional State Council Provisional State Government Tel AvivA declaration adopted at a special session of the Yishuv People’s Council in Tel Aviv, on 14 May 1948, establishing Israel as a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. -
Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement (1949)
An armistice agreement concluding the 1948 War between Israel and Egypt, signed in Rhodes, Greece, on 24 February 1949.