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** A. the end of the Ottoman Empire: **
 * 19 Identify the major developments in the Middle East before World War II. (H, E) **

The Ottoman Empire was ended on November 1, 1992, however, the formal ending was on July 24 1923 under the Treaty of Lausanne. On July 24 1923 the treaty of Lausanne was signed which declared a peace.

As a regime under an imperial monarchy, the Ottoman empire ended on November 1, 1922. **The Ottoman Empire ended when the Russians defeated them in 1922. **

** B. the Balfour Declaration of 1917: ** A declaration that wanted British support to make a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Jews wanted their own country so that they could escape anti-semitism.

In 1896, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria-Hungary, published Der Judenstaat ("The Jewish State"), in which he forcefully said that the only solution to the "Jewish Question" in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a Jewish State.

Was a formal statement of policy by the British government stating that the government favored the establishment in Palestine of a national home for jewish people.

This declaration declared for the British support of a new country for the Jews, which became known as Isreal.

The "Balfour Declaration" was later involved in a treaty between Turkey and Great Britain. **This declaration was made in 1917; it led many countries into thinking Great Britain would support the Jewish. ** ** C. the expulsion of the Greeks from Asia Minor: ** The Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922 occurred between the Greeks and Turkish revolutionaries.

The greco turkish war ended in all the greeks being taken out of turkey.

** D. the establishment of a secular Turkish state under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: **

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lead several military campaigns that gained Turkish independence, after these campaigns he set out to reform the politics, economics and culture of Turkey to make it more "westernized".

** E. the establishment of the Kingdom of Transjordan in the eastern part of the Palestine Mandate by the British: ** This mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922 and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.

**F. the growing importance of Middle Eastern oil fields to world politics and the world economy:**

The middle east oil fields provided oil and gas for industrial areas and cars and ships. They grew increasingly important because the increasing number of cars and because of the recent technological advancements in society.

The oil feilds provided the largest amount of oil at that time.

Oil produced in the middle East is the richest source of oil in the world. Most of the oil imported to the U.S. is from the Middle East.