Unit: Imperialism Topic: Fall of the Ottoman Empire

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Unit ImperialismTopic Fall of the Ottoman
Empire
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1. The Crimean War

1. In 1853, the Crimean War broke out between Russia
   and the Ottomans over control of the Middle East.
2. Britain and France aided the Ottomans to defeat
   Russia.
3. This war revealed the Ottomans military
   weakness, and it started to lose land to
   imperialists.

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The Crimean War was the first war in which women,
led by Florence Nightingale, established their
position as army nurses.
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2. Goodbye, Ottomans!

1. The Ottomans lost control of Romania, Montenegro,
   Cyprus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria, as
   well as lands in Africa.
2. By the beginning of World War I, the empire was
   reduced to almost nothing.

Goodbye!
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The Crimean War
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3. The Suez Canal

1. Egypt could not afford to pay European bankers
   the 450 million the canal had cost.

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1. The British insisted on overseeing financial
   control of the canal, and in 1882 occupied Egypt.