HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Central Powers, Anschluss, John Maynard Keynes
24 Sep 2018
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The end of the war and the paris peace conferences. Turkey today still does not accept this as a genocide. Turks withdrawing, believe armenians to be disloyal, so there was a half a million killed, 1-2 millions deployed from the area. Salto of turkey nominated to be leader of all muslims of world. Britain worried that he would call all muslims to attack western world: jihad. Britain worried that if they attack, india would join. Britain got involved in trying to take down turkey, tries to stir up arabs against turks by promising them free land there. Sykes-picot agreement, 1916: deal signed w/ france, opposes what they promised the arabs. Balfour declaration, nov 1917 commits britain to creating a homeland for the jews in palestine. Russian revolutions, february and october, 1917 disaster for allied powers. Treaty of brest-litovsk, 1918 russia signs treaty w/ germany giving. British offenses aerial bombardment and combat aces planes fighting each other dog fight.
