Geo Political and Economic Impact

HOW DID THESE TREATIES IMPACT THE MIDDLE EAST?
British view of Arabs
1. Hussein-McMahon Letters:
  1. state Britain is prepared to recognize and uphold independence of Arabs in all regions lying within the frontier proposed by sharif of mecca
2. Sykes-Picot Agreement
  1. British and French
  2. Splits sections of Middle East into British and French control
Zionist Movement
1. led to by raising the protection
2. moved for a jewish state
3. mainly supported by British
4. allies withdrew from pledge for Jewish state to save face with the arabs
5. Jewish people mistrust british policies and is openly disgusted with their allies
6. 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
1. Palestine was upset bc brits never mentioned mandate when they asked for help in WWI
2. growing source of hostility towards Jews emigrating to Palestine
Egypt
1. Most important British mandate because of Suez Canal
2. Egyptians had serious problems stemming from helping allies
3. 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
4. eventually won independence, but British maintained control of the canal
  1. sadly, many in power abused it
  2. 70% of land was owned by 6% of oeioke
    1. 90% illeterate
    2. 95% suffered from eye disease
HOW DID TREATIES REALIGN THE MAP?
1. LoN decided to divide pu new nations for trade and railroads
2. knew they were splitting up ethnic groups, but boosting economy was worth the risks
3. polish corridor = strip of territory forms part of the new polish state created into Treaty of Versailles. Divided Germany into 2 parts
  1. fuels hatred of Versailles and Poland
Germany and Soviet Union
1. Treaty of Rapallo
  1. undermined restrictions of Versailles
  2. restores strength of Germany and Russia
  3. made it clear that they wanted to revise Versailles
WHO WAS WORRIED ABOUT BULGARIA?
1. Group formed in 1921
  1. Little Entente
    1. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania
2. worried about Bulgaria trying to take back land
3. France supported it because they lost Russia as an ally and they knew it might one day bind with Germany
Us Policy after WWI
1. ISOLATIONISM
2. wealthiest and most powerful country in the world
3. everybody owed US $$
4. Wilson was stuborn
Economic consequences
1. Europe owed US a lot of money
2. Germany faced serious inflation
3. So much debt in Germany that US intervened to prevent WWII
  1. Dawes Act

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