Reminders. 1  Sum of the angles in a triangle = 180Â°. 2  Sum of the angles in a quadrilateral = 360Â°. 3  Opposite angles are equal. 4  For two parallel lines and a transversal, 5  corresponding angles are equal, and. 6  alternate angles are equal.
They came to the United States for a variety of reasons, most notably because of the persecution, discrimination, fear, and economic problems they faced in Russia. 2 1/2 million of the 8 million immigrants who immigrated to America between 1880-1914 from Russia and Austria-Hungary were Jews.
Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region.