WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR I

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was given a mandate over Palestine after WWI?
A
the Ottoman Emprire
B
Holocaust survivors
C
the British
D
the United Nations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The British army ruled Palestine until a civil administration was established on 1 July 1920. Britain was granted a Mandate for Palestine on 25 April 1920 at the San Remo Conference, and, on 24 July 1922, this mandate was approved by the League of Nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -From about 1517 to 1917, the Ottoman Empire ruled much of the region. When World War I ended in 1918, the British took control of Palestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-5: -1917 – 1947: British mandate Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922.

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