HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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The Middle East
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Asia
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Latin America
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Eastern Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mandate system was a compromise between the Allies’ wish to retain the former German and Turkish colonies and their pre-Armistice declaration (November 5, 1918) that annexation of territory was not their aim in the war.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mandate for Palestine was one of a number of mandates in the Middle East designed to formalize British and French administration in the newly formed countries of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine.