WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Denounced the use of chemicals by the Germans on the Western Front
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Was a pledge of British support for the future
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Was a mediation effort to resolve the Anglo-Irish crisis
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Was an attempt to persuade the United States to abandon its neutrality
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Repudiated the notion of war aims involving territory and compensation
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Balfour report was accepted in full by the 1926 Imperial Conference and thus filled its purpose of laying down the fundamental principles guiding the relations between the countries of the British Commonwealth, and of each to foreign countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1917 Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, promising to support the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.