HIST 46 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enver Pasha
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Big event b/c many middle eastern states are a result of ww1. Many the young turks didn"t want to enter b/c they were weak compared to europe: also, there wasn"t really a gain for the ottomans. Impossible to stay out of the war: many disagreements. Enver pasha entered a secret alliance with germany: russia was #1 enemy. Oct 29, 1914: ottomans attack russian ports, enters war. Britain embarrassed ottomans because they didn"t give them 2 warships the ottomans paid for. The ottomans had several fronts to fight on: put heavy burden on ottomans, also b/c railroads were limited in ottoman empire. War in e. anatolia and initially did well against the russian. 1915-1917, ottomans on defensive on their own land. In 1915, the ottomans sent armenians to desert and up to 1 million died (nearly 90% of the population) Most historians agree that this was a genocide.
