European powers continued to expand their colonial empires d…
European powers continued to expand their colonial empires during and after World War I. Nationalists in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia were disappointed to find that their hopes for independent nations following WWI would not be supported by victorious European powers: France and Great Britain. Palestine in the Middle East was particularly affected. , named for the British foreign secretary, was an official British policy statement issued in 1917 that supported the idea of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Against the wishes of the Muslim Palestinians, Britain supported the immigration of Jewish immigrants to Palestine in preparation for the creation of a Jewish homeland.