The U.N. General Assembly passes Resolution 181, suggesting the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states with the establishment of an international regime for Jerusalem. All of the Arab states oppose partition because it sanctions a Jewish state. The USSR and U.S. vote in favor of partition, and Britain abstains. Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine ensues; Britain declares the end of the Palestine Mandate for May 14, 1948. (source)
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