| A | B |
|---|
| Balfour Declaration | British government's support of Jewish homeland in Palestine |
| Zionism | Traditional Jewish desire to create homeland in Palestine |
| The Mandate | British rule of Palestine 1918-1948 |
| Peel Commission | They first recommended that Palestine be divided between Jewish and Arab states |
| The Holocaust | Half the world's Jewish population died in this |
| Grand Mufti of Jerusalem | Haj Amin al-Husseini |
| Nazi Germany | Most of Palestine's Arab leaders supported this country during WWII |
| Jewish immigration | The Arabs worried they would become a minority if this remained unlimited |
| Special Committee on Palestine | This United Nations group decided how Palestine would be partitioned in 1947 |
| Israel | The Jewish part of Palestine that declared independence in 1948 |
