HISTORY 2S03 Lecture Notes - Hussein Bin Ali, Sharif Of Mecca, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Caspian Sea
23 Nov 2012
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The great powers employ troops from their imperial empires. Dominant power in the middle-east since about 1500. A movement seizes power in istanbul, wanted internal reform. Viewed by european states with considerable unease. Used to the sick man of europe staying in bed. Disastrous wars halt them before wwi dispossess ottoman of most of their remaining territories and their part of africa. Want to regain what had been lost through wwi. Want to reassert authority of istanbul over territories. Different religious faiths the yts don"t know if they can rely on. Germans see the middle east as a way to strike at the british. Germans want to threated british ownership of this. Get the sultans on your side and declare holy war on british. British know this is vital for them need to control it. Oil in southern mesopotamia anglo-iranian oil company -> bp necessary for royal navy.
