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After World War I, the United Kingdom was given a mandate over the area known as Palestine, which it had conquered from the Ottomans during the war.
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By 1931, 17 percent of the population of Mandatory Palestine were Jews, an increase of six percent since 1922. Jewish immigration peaked soon after the Nazis came to power in Germany, causing the Jewish population in British Palestine to double.
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Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany, begins killing of approximately six million Jews.
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The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against British colonial rule, as a demand for independence and opposition to mass Jewish immigration
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Peel Commission suggested dividing Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state, however it was rejected as unworkable by the government and was partially to blame for the renewal of the 1936–39 Arab revolt.
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The White Paper of 1939 proposed restrictions on Jewish immigration and independence for Palestine with an Arab majority within ten years, however led to the Jewish insurgency in Palestine.
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WWII begins with German invasion of Poland.
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Japenese sign surrender agreement.
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Palestine was to be divided into a Jewish and Arab State, resolution is supported by both the USSR and the USA, while Arab countries refuse to recognise resolution.
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War broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine.
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State of Israel become an independent state, recognised immediately by USA and on May 17 by the USSR.
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Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia declare war on Israel.
Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi and Lebanese invasion begin.