HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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ended Austria-Hungary’s participation in the war
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guaranteed the Arabs a state of their own in the area of future Syria and Lebanon
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declared the right of Jews to a homeland in Palestine
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urged American entrance into World War I.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Balfour Declaration thus meant that the Palestinians faced the prospect of being outnumbered by unlimited immigration, and of losing control of Palestine to the Zionist drive for sole sovereignty over a country that was then almost completely Arab in population and culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1917, in order to win Jewish support for Britain’s First World War effort, the British Balfour Declaration promised the establishment of a Jewish national home in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hence the most documented explanation for the declaration is that the British government hoped to persuade Jews in two wavering Allied countries, the United States and Russia, to insist that their Page 4 governments stay in the war until total victory.