Countries in Charge
These two countries split up the Ottoman Empire after World War I.
Britain and France
Name one country created from the Ottoman Empire.
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine
The new borders after WWI often caused what?
Conflict
Division of land after a war.
Partition
The empire that controlled the Middle East before WWI.
Ottoman Empire
This country was once called Palestine under the Ottoman Empire.
Israel
True or False: European countries thought about ethnic and religious groups when drawing new borders.
False
Movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
A European power that did NOT take land from the Ottoman Empire after WWI.
Germany
What did the new borders ignore when creating new countries?
Ethinic Groups and religious groups
What word means “dividing land after a war”
Partiton
Britain supported a Jewish homeland in 1917
Balfour Declaration
Why did Britain and France want the land after WWI besides politics?
to control resources and trade routes like oil
Lebanon and Syria became new nations after which war?
World War I
What is a border?
A line that separates
Mass killing of Jews in WWI
Holocaust
What war caused the Ottoman Empire to fall apart?
World War I
After WWI, what happened to the Ottoman Empire’s land?
It divided into other lands
The new borders created after WWI affected which region of the world the most?
The Middle East (SW Asia)
Ethnic group without a country in the Middle East.
Kurds