Post WWI Nationalism Flashcards
Armenian Genocide
1.5 Armenians killed by Turks for seeking independence
Ottoman Empire
controlled by Turks, collapsed at end of WWI
Who overthrew Abdulhamid II?
Young Turks
Turkey
Independent after collapse of Ottoman Empire, tried to modernize and removed Islam
Ataturk
tried to modernize Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Arab nation that united in 1932
Who did GB want to have Palestine?
The Jews
Palestine
Fought over by Jews and Muslims
Israel
Jewish safe haven in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
Allowed for creation of Israel
What did Africans do during WWI to find favor of GB?
voluntarily fought with Allies
Africans after WWI
under European control, fought violently for independence
Libyan concentration camps
Italian run- used to punish Libyans for
guerrilla warfare against Italy
W.E.B Du Bois
encouraged revival of African culture
Communism
spread by Russians, became a part of Chinese culture