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The following modifications have been made: Replaced Spanish with English. Removed unused colour key for Italian possessions. Removed country borders outside African continent. Removed Lakes Kariba and Nasser, which did not exist in 1947. Removed exclave of Walvis Bay, which had been incorporated into South West Africa by 1947.
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).
The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here): Blue = area assigned to a Jewish state in the original UN partition plan, and within the 1949 Israel armistice lines. Green = area assigned to an Arab state in the original UN partition plan, and controlled by Egypt or Jordan from 1949-1967.
1949 — The Arab–Israeli War ends in an armistice, with Israel gaining 60% of the Palestinian state proposed by the 1947 partition plan, Egypt gaining the Gaza Strip and Jordan gaining the West Bank. 1950 — Chandannagar is taken over by India from French control. 1951 — Tibet is annexed by the People's Republic of China.
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The organization started in 2010 when Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla [5] [6] began recording video interviews with elder Partition witnesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and was formalized in 2011. The creation of the 1947 Partition Archive was inspired by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and the work of various Holocaust memorials. [2]
In July 1920, at the San Remo conference, a Class "A" League of Nations mandates over Palestine was allocated to the British.On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending "to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine ...
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