HIS 2160 Lecture Notes - Major Scale, Jewish Assimilation, Nazism
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Wwi and the shaping of the middle east. The creation of all the modern day middle eastern countries such as syria, lebbanon, Israel and the palestinian territories, egypt, jordan, and. War: there emerges a weak ottoman empire. It was the beginning of new states emerging and the zionist project in the middle. 1915 sharif hussein and macmahon started communications: was the guardian of mecca and medina, he made an agreement he said he would launch a revolt against the ottomans in return for an independent state. It did however fall within the sphere talked about by hussein in the first letter: arab forces attacked and captured territory revolution went well, the sykes picot agreement in ways goes directly against the macmahon agreement. Zionism: theodore herzle balfour decleration, the idea that the jews were attached and were connected to the state of eretz. This happened among european countries and helped to assimilate the jews in the.
