Imperialism in the Middle East
Britain controlled this body of water in Egypt during and after WWI
What is the Suez Canal?
Wilson's speech outlining ideas for a new world order including self-determination for colonies
What are the 14 points?
These two nations secretly met and made plans regarding who would control Ottoman territory in 1915
Who are Britain and France?
An Egyptian politician and statesman who brought a delegation to Paris wanting to achieve Egyptian independnce and failed
Who was Saad Zaghloul?
Idea supported by multiple powerful officials in the Wilson Administration that partly influenced Britain to make the Balfour Declaration
What is Zionism?
What is the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence?
Britain's main goal in the Middle East
What is maintaining a route to India?
An American survey of various Arab populations, finding out that they overwhelmingly wanted independence from western powers
King-Crane Commission
The agreement in which Britain and France formally agreed on how to divide territory on the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
The term used by the League of Nations to describe continued imperial and foreign rule over former colonies
Mandate
Wilson's foreign policy decision in 1919 that was called "the ugliest of treacheries" by the Arabs
Recognizing Egpyt as a British protectorate
A newspaper from this nation revealed the details of the Sykes-Picot Agreement to the whole world
What is the Soviet Union/Russia?