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Title: Making of the Modern Middle East


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Making of the Modern Middle East
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I. Introduction Decline of Ottoman Empire
  • "Sick Man of Europe"
  • Young Turks and Reform
  • Ottoman Empire in World War I
  • Arab Nationalism

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II. The New Turkey
  • Mustafa Kemal and Turkish Nationalism
  • Turkey Emerges from Ashes
  • Massacres Armenians, Greeks and Turks
  • Modernizing Reforms
  • People Without a Country the Kurds

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III. Imperialism and the Mandate System
  • Secret Treaties as Betrayal of Arab Nationalism
  • British and French Mandates
  • Syria and Lebanon
  • Iraq
  • Palestine and the Balfour Declaration

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IV. Modern Iraq
  • Iraq After Independence
  • Cold War and Oil
  • Ba'ath Party Pan-Arabism
  • Iran-Iraq War (1980s) and First Gulf War (1991)

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Conclusion
  • Nationalism, Religion, and the Modern Middle East
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