Mandates to 1921

Question 1

Russia

Answer 1

Published the terms of Sykes-Picot agreement to embarrass FR/BR

Question 2

Britain

Answer 2

entered Jerusalem 1917 and defeated Turks at Megiddo in 1918

Question 3

Arab forces

Answer 3

liberated Damascus in 1918

Question 4

Abdullah and Faisal

Answer 4

Abduallah- offered leadership of Jordan by Br

Faisal- offered the Kingdom of Iraq

Question 5

Cairo Conference

Answer 5

1921

upheld Balfour declaration - Britain had to appease Jews and prevented Arab invasion of its mandates

Question 6

Balfour Declaration

Answer 6

1917

• needed Jews in US to influence the government
• the jews took it as a promise to create a state, rather than a homeland

Question 7

MacMahon-Hussein letters

Answer 7

• Arab believed MacMahon was offering independence

- British government weren’t going to surrender control of parts of Syria

Question 8

Sykes-Picot

Answer 8

• rendered the MacMahon-Hussein irrelevant
• BR/FR divide the middle east into 5 parts
• problem: without arab knowledge, neglected Britain’s promise of 1910s

Question 9

events in the middle east

Answer 9

‘a peace to end all peace’

Question 10

Arab nationalism

Answer 10

• between 50s and 70s nationalism gave momentum to a united arab world
• advances in industry: inequality between the classes