Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geo Political and Economic Impact
- HOW DID THESE TREATIES IMPACT THE MIDDLE EAST?
- British view of Arabs
- Hussein-McMahon Letters:
- state Britain is prepared to
recognize and uphold
independence of Arabs in all
regions lying within the frontier
proposed by sharif of mecca
- Sykes-Picot Agreement
- British and French
- Splits sections of Middle East into
British and French control
- Zionist Movement
- led to by raising the protection
- moved for a jewish state
- mainly supported by British
- allies withdrew from
pledge for Jewish state to
save face with the arabs
- Jewish people mistrust british
policies and is openly disgusted with
their allies
- Red zionist determination to build up their own
defense against increasingly violent arab resistance
in Palestine
- League of nations made Palestine a mandate for Great Britain
- Palestine was upset bc brits never
mentioned mandate when they asked for
help in WWI
- growing source of hostility
towards Jews emigrating to
Palestine
- Egypt
- Most important British
mandate because of Suez
Canal
- Egyptians had serious problems
stemming from helping allies
- Allies refused to let Egyptian
council to attend the meetings at
Treaty of Versailles about Arab
States, they went back to Egypt
and started a huge uprising
- eventually won independence, but British
maintained control of the canal
- sadly, many in power abused it
- 70% of land was owned by 6% of oeioke
- 90% illeterate
- 95% suffered from eye disease
- HOW DID TREATIES REALIGN THE MAP?
- LoN decided to divide pu
new nations for trade and
railroads
- knew they were splitting up ethnic
groups, but boosting economy was
worth the risks
- polish corridor = strip of territory forms part of the new polish state
created into Treaty of Versailles. Divided Germany into 2 parts
- fuels hatred of Versailles and Poland
- Germany and Soviet Union
- Treaty of Rapallo
- undermined restrictions of Versailles
- restores strength of Germany and Russia
- made it clear that they wanted to revise Versailles
- WHO WAS WORRIED ABOUT BULGARIA?
- Group formed in 1921
- Little Entente
- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania
- worried about Bulgaria trying to take back land
- France supported it because they lost Russia as an ally and they knew it might one day
bind with Germany
- Us Policy after WWI
- ISOLATIONISM
- wealthiest and most powerful country in the world
- everybody owed US $$
- Wilson was stuborn
- Economic consequences
- Europe owed US a lot of money
- Germany faced serious inflation
- So much debt in Germany that US intervened to prevent WWII
- Dawes Act