POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arab Citizens Of Israel, Algerian War, Economic Liberalization
17 Sep 2018
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They circumvented this by using the new league of nations to establish mandates. Essentially the french and the british said that the countries they were mandateing were not yet ready for independence and so the allies would. Help them govern themselves until they were ready to govern themselves independently. The british established monarchies in transjordan and iraq and gave them to their. Briefly after ww1 the kurds were promised an independent state but that just. The borders used did not exist before hand, the middle east as it is today exists because colonial powers split them up for administrative convenience. On the eve of ww2 almost everything in the middle east had become colonised. The only thing that was not colonised was what would eventually become saudi. European rule obviously swayed people against anti european sentiment as people don"t like rule from foreign power.
