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Arab Disappointment at Versailles, 1919. The Balfour Declaration incorporated into British Mandate over Palestine. Iraq, Jordan and Palestine all more or less under British control. Only the Arabian peninsula truly independent. The Middle East Between the Wars. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Arab Disappointment at Versailles, 1919
The Balfour Declaration incorporated into British Mandate over Palestine. Iraq, Jordan and Palestine all more or less under British control. Only the Arabian peninsula truly
independent.
The Middle East Between the Wars
British Mandate in PalestineCreated
after WW1.
Transjordan divided
from Palestine.
Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920 In 1920, there
was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine.
By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.
Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System First one founded in
1908.
Communal living.
“Make the DesertBloom!”
Land often acquired from absentee Arab landlords
Jewish immigration to Palestine during the British
Mandate Jewish
1919 1,806
1920 8,223
1921 8,294
1922 8,685
1923 8,175
1924 13,892
1925 34,386
1926 13,855
1927 3,034
1928 2,178
1929 5,249
1930 4,944
Immigration1931 4,075
1932 12,533
1933 37,337
1934 45,267
1935 66,472
1936 29,595
1937 10,629
1938 14,675
1939 31,195
1940 10,643
1941 4,592
Palestine Arab Revolt: 1936-1939
An end to Jewish immigration to Palestine.
An end to the transferof lands to Jewish owners.
A new “generalrepresentative government.”
Their Goals:
The Peel Commission Partition Plan, 1937
British White Paper of 1939 Limited Jewish
immigration toPalestine to 75,000 over the next five years.
It ended Jewish landpurchases.
Independence forPalestine within 10 years.
It is NOT British policythat Palestine become aJewish state.
Nazi Concentration & Extermination Camps