Political factors caused by the war also hurt Europe's ability to recover. The redrawing of political boundaries created new states with little regard to economic viability. ... The self-serving political interests of the world also precluded any possibility of solving the problem. ...
After the First World War, everyone wanted to avoid repeating the mass slaughter of the war which had just ended. They also agreed that a League of Nations, an organisation that could solve international problems without resorting to war, would help achieve this. President Wilson wanted the Leagu...
As Zionism was a movement to create a nation state for Jewish people, Arab Nationalism was, "the idea that the Arabs are a people linked by special bonds of language and history, religion, and that their political organization should in some way reflect this reality, and still has force throughout the Arab-speaking world.... Named after Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, the Balfour Declaration was the British government assertion of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people; however, the British government's motives for this declaratio...
