Ch 16 L1

Question 1

Who do the Ottomans side with in WWI?

Answer 1

Germany

Question 2

why do britiah support arab nationalist ?

Answer 2

Supported Arab nationalists movements to weaken Ottoman Empire

Question 3

1916-Arabia declared ahat and Britain what-

Answer 3

Arabia declared independence from ottoman rule

britan seized paletine

Question 4

Ottoman government accusations towards Armenians

Answer 4

A used them of supporting Russia and killed them

Question 5

By September 1915 how many armenians died

Answer 5

1M Armenians died

Question 6

Genocide

Answer 6

Group of ppl killed bc of their race, political, culture group

Question 7

Turkish republic created when-

Answer 7

Created after the fall of Ottoman Empire (Atatruk)

Question 8

Ataturk’s changes (government, economy, life, religion)-

Answer 8

Demographic system

New alphabet

Modernized education/factories

Tried to get ride of Islamic culture

Question 9

Women’s rights

Answer 9

Rights to marriage and inheritance = to men

Right to vote

Eduction

Question 10

1921-Reza Khan (Reza Shah Pahlavi)-

Answer 10

Lead a military to take over the capital city

Question 11

Persia becomes Iran in 1935 what did they modernize

Answer 11

Modernized gov, edu, and economic system `

Question 12

The shah encourages-

Answer 12

Western style education

Question 13

-GB/SU send troops into Iran-why? What happens?

Answer 13

Shah refused to remove German officials during Wwi

Shah resigns and his son takes his place

Question 14

What are Arabs united by?

Answer 14

Language and shared Islamic culture

Question 15

Britain/France and mandates (where do they govern?)-

Answer 15

Britian: Iraq, Palestine

France: Syria, Lebanon

Question 16

Europeans and the modern map of the Middle East

Answer 16

Europeans created the modern map of ME

Question 17

When is the kingdom of Saudi Arabia established and by whom?

Answer 17

Ibn Sa’ud in 1932

Question 18

1930s and exploration-

Answer 18

US prospectors explored for oi in saudi arabia

Question 19

Nationalism of Jews/Arabs-

Answer 19

Came into conflict because they viewed the area as a potential national state

Question 20

Zionists (1890s)-advocate for-

Answer 20

A Jewish state be re establish in the ancient Jewish homeland

Question 21

Balfour Declaration-

Answer 21

British supported idea of a national home for Jews in palatine

Question 22

1930s (Germany/Jews immigrate to the Palestine Mandate

Answer 22

Many jews fled the Palestine bc of holocaust

Question 23

1936 Arabs in paltestine and wnated what from british amd jews

Answer 23

Arabian in Palestine revolted

Demanded freedom from British & end Jewish immigration

Question 24

1939 british respond to the balfour document

Answer 24

british said only 75k immigrants (Jews) over the next 5 years to go to Palestine