Partition of Palestine & The Causes of WWII
- One of the causes resided in Europe, beginning with Germany's military occupation of Czechoslovakia. Another cause resided in Asia, in the Japanese territorial claims in China, which was unacceptable for the United States, as its ally and economic partner. After Japan's refusal in 1941 to withdraw from China, the U.S. began preparations for war.
- U.S. implemented a coercive strategy toward Japan's politics by supporting China, Britain and Holland, all of them with territories threatened by Japanese military troops. Failure to find a diplomatic solution to the political conflict between the U.S. and Japan resulted in Japan implementing a series of surprise attacks against U.S.as well as other countries.
- At the end of WW II, in November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly approved the partition of the Palestinian territory between the Arabs and the Jews coming to Palestine from Europe in the wake of the Holocaust. The Jews were to possess 52 percent of Palestine, though they made up only 31 percent of the population. In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. The next day, Arab forces invaded it, but were defeated by the Israeli army.