Question

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was written to show Great Britain's support for

A)
the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.

B)
the creation of the League of Nations.

C)
the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.

D)
the creation of a Jewish nation in the Middle East.

Answer 1

D) The creation of a Jewish nation in the Middle East.

Step-by-step explanation:

It was a public statement supporting the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. By that time the region was an Ottoman region with a small minority of Jewish people.

The declaration was contained in a letter from the United Kingdom´s foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, leader of the British Jewish community.

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Answer 2

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was written to show Great Britain's support for "the creation of a Jewish nation in the Middle East", since this home was specifically to be in Palestine.