Again, World War Two forced cancellation. A year after the war ended, London was once again selected, this time to host the 1948 Olympics. They only had two years preparation time before an army ...

WE HEREBY DECLARE that as from the termination of the Mandate at midnight, this night of the 14th and 15th May, 1948, and until the setting up of the duly elected bodies of the State in accordance ...

Join Us Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from showing the film last week.

When the Olympic Games came to London in 1948, the event was visiting a city still suffering from the ravages of World War Two. Rationing remained in force and many people had been left homeless ...

It was to be a super-duper slambang season, 1948-49 was going to be; no question about it. For the first time since the 1941-42 season, the Rangers had finally climbed into a playoff berth in the ...

The Jewish leadership in Palestine declared the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, the moment the British mandate terminated, though without announcing its borders. The following ...

Here it is briefly explained, in both 100 words and 300 words. On 14 May 1948, Israel declared independence, and in a war which began the next day, up to 750,000 Palestinians who had lived on that ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came to a head in 1948. Germany had been divided into four zones of ...