The creation of the state of Israel took place in 1948, three years after World War II, achieving the end goal of more than a half century of Zionists striving for a Jewish state in Palestine. This ideology also heavily influenced the creation of new nation-states in eastern Europe following World War I along ethnic/linguistic lines as well as the partition of India along religious lines in 1947. In all these cases major international powers attempted to delineate new states that were as ethnically or religiously homogenous as possible