HISTORY 2500 Lecture 10: Week 10 Decolonization and Arab-Israeli Conflict
26 Dec 2017
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By 1913, all of africa divided among european powers. Scramble for africa and kongo conference a) b) Promises made to middle east for support in ww1. Independence promise (balfour declaration) did not come true, still occupied. Nationalism took over, tried to gain independence through force c) Tried to stop regional rivalries between hindu and. Gb left may 1948, immediately jewish group declared. All other middle eastern nations didn"t recognized israel. Declared war on israel, but us backed israel and fended them off. As gb moves out, the us and soviets move in during. Egypt"s gamal abdul nasser nationalized the suez canal. Quiz 4 page 2 b) c) d) e) Gb uses the route for india trade, threatened trade. Also closed down aswan dam, straits of tiran. Eisenhower mad over no info about collusion against. Egypt, wars and conflicts in sinai peninsula (cold war) Us threatens gb, israel to stop taking suez canal.
