The League of Nations was formed in 1920, but the world’s dominant power stayed out of it, rendering it ineffective from inception. World War 2 saw the US, UK and Russia on the same side.

The League of Nations gave Britain a "mandate" over Palestine after the war, ... During the mandate years between 1923-48, ... The Nakba explained in five maps and charts.

The Nakba: All you need to know explained in five maps and charts. ... (1914-18), Britain ruled over Palestine between 1923-1948 under a "mandate" from the League of Nations.

The San Remo Resolution was adopted at the international meeting of the Allied Supreme Council, allocating League of Nations mandates for the administration of three then-undefined Ottoman ...

His mandate was to revive a plateauing program. His early results were largely positive. But in his first true elimination game, with 11 men, the U.S. suffered a familiar fate.

PITTSBURGH — One of many stirring images inside TD Garden late Thursday night featured Team Canada's players with their arms wrapped around one another, standing along the blue line and ...

Starting with Winston Churchill slicing off 70% of the original League of Nations Mandate territory to create Trans-Jordan to the United Nations Resolution 181 in 1947, further dividing the ...

The United Nations is now at a similar inflection point to the League’s position in the 1930s. When the League ended, the United Nations and several of its agencies became operative.

1. Early History. After rule by the Ottoman Empire ended there in World War I, the Gaza area became part of the League of Nations mandate of Palestine under British rule.

Of books on the mandates there has been no dearth ever since this novel institution was established. But this impressive volume, well-documented and admirably planned, a work that shows on every page ...