The 1948 War was the war in which the State of Israel fought the Arab armies to establish itself in the former British Palestine Mandate.
After World War, the League of Nations issued mandates for the governance of certain areas formerly ruled by Germany and the Ottoman Empire. In the middle east, the British received a mandate for Palestine, Transjordan (Jordan) and Mesopotamia (Iraq). The French received a mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
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The British Mandate of Palestine.
The name is British Mandate of Palestine.
The British ruled the regions would become Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine as Mandates. From 1919-1921 the only two British Mandates in the Middle East were those of Iraq and Palestine. In 1922, the Mandate of Palestine was divided into the Mandate of Palestine and the Mandate of Transjordan.
The Mandate of Palestine.
In 1944, Israel/Palestine was under British sovereignty as the British Mandate for Palestine.
The British Mandate of Palestine was the only mandate with an Arab-Jewish controversy.
Israel and TransJordan
It was known that eh League of Nations (currently the United Nations) gave Britain the task of controlling Palestine therefore creating the British Mandate for Palestine. The Mandate lasted from 1920-1948.
In the British Mandate of Palestine.
The modern State of Israel came into existence in 1948. In 1940, the area where Israel predominantly sits (excluding the Golan Heights) was called the British Mandate of Palestine. The Mandate of Palestine was not a country, but a colony of the British Empire. What made a mandate different from a colony was that the British had an obligation to help the people living in the territory to form their own government and facilitate independence. In the specific case of the Mandate of Palestine, they were required to do this for the Jews and the Arabs together.
In 1945, Palestine remained a British Mandate (United Kingdom).
UN Resolution 181: The Partition Plan for the Mandate of Palestine.