USA HISTORY

In which present-day nation did Britain establish a mandate?

(A) Cambodia

(B) Laos

(C) Korea

(D) ** Israel

Concept note-1: -The territory of the British Mandate included land on both sides of the Jordan River, encompassing the present-day countries of Israel and Jordan.

Concept note-2: -The League of Nations (LON) formally adopted a British mandate for Palestine in July 1922, which incorporated the principles of the Balfour Declaration in the mandate. Arab nationalists opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Some 75, 000 Jews emigrated to Palestine between 1922 and 1926.

Concept note-3: -On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired, the Jewish People’s Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved the following proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel.

Concept note-4: -The mandate was assigned to Britain by the San Remo conference in April 1920, after France’s concession in the 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George Agreement of the previously-agreed “international administration” of Palestine under the Sykes–Picot Agreement.