The British Gave Up Their Mandate Over Palestine in May

question 19

Multiple Choice

The British gave up their mandate over Palestine in May 1948,with the result that

• A) the United Nations began to work on a partition plan for Palestine that would give some lands to the Jews for a new state.
• B) Arab nations declared war on the Jews in Palestine, hoping to force them to leave before the U.N. established their statehood.
• C) Zionists in Palestine immediately declared the creation of the nation of Israel.
• D) the PLO was immediately established, to fight the Israelis and regain Palestine for its scattered peoples.
• E) tens of thousands of Jews streamed into the new state of Israel to help fight for the survival of the new state.

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