Mandatory Palestine

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/mandatory-palestine

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the mandatory power?United Kingdom
2. What is the mandate period?1920-1948
3. What was Mandatory Palestine and when did it exist?Mandatory Palestine was a territory governed by Britain after World War I, from 1920 to 1948.
4. Why did Britain rule Palestine instead of letting the people decide?Britain was given a mandate by the League of Nations to govern the area after the Ottoman Empire fell, and it had to balance promises to both Arab and Jewish groups.

Zionism: A movement advocating for the establishment and development of a Jewish homeland in historic Israel.
Self-determination: The right of a people to choose their own form of government and political status.
United Nations Partition Plan: A 1947 UN proposal to divide Mandatory Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.