-Arab League is formed in 1945 to protest the Balfour Declaration -France gives Syria and Lebanon independence in 1946 -British fall out of favor with the Jews under the guidance of the Zionist movement (A homeland had not been created yet) -The Brits hand the problem over to the UN in 1947 -1947 UN suggests a partition -Jews happy, Arabs angry -Day mandate ends the Jews under David Ben-Gurion attack the Arab League countries -Jews win and increase their territory from the partition by nearly 5 times -Many Palestinians became refugees
Summary
Jewish and Arabs start to have conflict over the promise of land to the Jewish.