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POST World War I. The Mandate System 1920. Balfour Declaration 1917?. C 31 Sec 3: Nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East. Nationalism. North Africa: Morocco and Tunisia granted independence from the French in 1956 Algeria granted independence in 1962
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POST World War I The Mandate System 1920 Balfour Declaration 1917?
C 31 Sec 3: Nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East Nationalism North Africa: Morocco and Tunisia granted independence from the French in 1956 Algeria granted independence in 1962 (many French settlers there) Present Day (Arab Spring): Tunisia: 12/2010-1/2011 Egypt: 1/2011-2/2011 Libya: 2/2011 – 10/2011 Syria: 1/2011- ????
Conflicts in the Middle East • Morocco and Tunisia • Causes: • France tried to resist nationalist campaigns that gained support after • World War II • Effects: • French aggression led to increasing unrest • France eventually negotiated with nationalist leaders for peace • Morocco and Tunisia granted independence in 1956
Conflicts in the Middle East • Algeria • Causes: • France encouraged large scale European settlement here (more than 1 million French immigrants here by 1950) • 1954: Algerian nationals established the FLN (National Liberation Front) • Effects: • FLN went to war against France • France responded harshly in Battle of Algiers (FR victory) • But …. Feb 1961 agreement was signed that granted • Algeria independence in 1962
The Mandate System 1920 Balfour Declaration 1917?
1947: British announced it was giving up control of the mandate UN proposes a partition to divide the mandate into two states: Palestine and Israel Why did the Arabs reject the United Nations Partition Plan?The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan (Res. 181) gave 55% of the land to the Jews even though they owned only 7% of the land in Palestine and comprised only 33% of the population. The land that was designated for the Jewish state included prime agricultural and coastal land and would have had a large Palestinian population under the Jewish state control. The Arabs considered this unfair.
Despite objections: UN validates division > British leave The Creation of Israel: May 14, 1948 May 15, 1948: first Arab-Israeli War (8 months) Arabs defeated UN Plan never implemented ARMISTICE NO PEACE TREATIES 700,000
Conflicts in the Middle East • Israel • Causes: • After WW II, Zionist leaders pressed Britain to establish a Jewish state • 1947: Britain giving up control of the mandate • United Nations proposed a partition of Palestine • (one Jewish state, one Arab state) • Effects: • David Ben-Gurion declared birth of democratic state of Israel, May 14, 1948. • Series of Arab-Israeli wars follow from May 1948- present. • Wars involve massive killings, refugees and land exchanges
COMMUNIST NATIONALISM PAN-ARABISM US pressures France, Israel and Great Britain to withdraw from Suez Canal
Conflicts in the Middle East • Egypt • Causes: • Egypt’s loss in 1st Arab-Israeli War discredited King Farouk I (1948) • King Farouk I was pro-British and seen as dependent on Britain for power • Effects: • 1952 military coup- (Gamal Abdel Nasser) • Forced Farouk out of power/ abolished the monarchy • Banned existing political parties • Created a single government party
Conflicts in the Middle East • Suez Canal • Causes: • Abdel Nasser refuses to sign Baghdad Pact • Nasser seeks military aid from Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia • US and Britain deny Nasser funds to build Aswan Dam • Egypt blocks Israeli shipping/blocks control of Suez Canal/ GB FR Israel attack • Effects: • Oct 1956: Britain, France and Israel attack Egypt • Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula, BR and FR troops occupy the Suez Canal Zone (Egypt defeated) • US intervened: BR, FR and Israel withdraw • Egypt left in control of the Suez Canal
IRAN 1941: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi : nationalists opposed him 1951: parliaments named nationalists to power > nationalized oil industry US and Britain called for a boycott of Iranian oil 1953: Shah returns to power (we help to overthrow nationalists)
Conflicts in the Middle East • Iran • Causes: • 1941 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi becomes the Shah of Iran • Russia and Britain controlled oil reserves there • Nationalists determined to take control of country’s oil reserves • Effects: • Britain and US call for a boycott of Iranian oil • Coup ousted nationalist leader Mohammad Mosaddeq • Shah Pahlavi returned to power (combined reform with an iron fist)
C 31 section 4: Conflicts in the Middle East Regional Issue #1= Oil
2/3 of the world’s oil comes from the Middle East
OPEC= Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Regional Issue #2 = Islamism
Regional Issue #3 = Conflict with Israel After 1948, most Middle East countries refused to accept Israel’s right to exist Series of wars = Israel controlled more land than in 1948 1967= Six Day War (Israel took control of Gaza, Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, East and West Jerusalem
Until late 1970s, NO Arab nation recognized Israel’s right to exist… October 6, 1981 March 9, 1992 Camp David Accords 1978 The main features of the agreement were the mutual recognition of each country by the other, the cessation of the state of war that had existed since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the complete withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the rest of the Sinai Peninsula which Israel had captured during the 1967 Six-Day War ( Sadat/ Begin = Nobel Peace Prize 1978)
Yassar Arafat (1929-2004) Established PLO 1964 Intifada 1987 Oslo Peace Accords 1993 (w Itzhak Rabin) Received Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Second Intifada 2000 President Obama/ Secretary of State Clinton: renewed interest in peace process 2011 Over 500 Israeli civilians died in 140 Palestinian suicide bomb attacks from 2000 to 2007. More than 4,500 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the same period.
By 1978: Iranians protested the Shah’s oppressive rule 1979: Islamic republic under the Ayatollah Khomeini 1979: Iranian revolutionaries seized the US Embassy in Tehran Took 66 American hostages and held them for 444 days 1980: Iraq attacked Iran because of border disputes and because Iran’s government calls for revolution Iraq used chemical weapons against Tran and Kurdish troops who supported Iran
Economic sanctions fail to end Iraqi occupation of Kuwait Operation Desert Storm Saddam Hussein Captured and hanged 30 December 2006
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