A | B |
Sultan who suspended the constitution of the Ottoman Empire | Abdulhamid II |
Group of reformers who reinstated the Ottoman constitution | Young Turks |
British adventurer who supported Arab nationalism | T.E. Lawrence |
Genocide | Deliberate mass murder of a racial, political or cultural group |
Armenian Massacre | Killing and explusion of Armenians living in Turkey |
Keml Attaturk | "Father Turk" who transformed Turkey, reducing Arab and Muslim influence and modernizing the country. |
Reza Shah Pahlevi | Modernized Iran |
Mandates | Protectorates of former Ottoman territories |
Ibn Saud | United Arabs in Arabian peninsula |
Palestine | Ancient home of Jewish people, became a British mandate after world war i |
Zionist movement | Advocated that Palestine become a Jewish homeland. |
Ethnic cleansing | A modern term for something similar to genocide |
Balfour Declaration | Document supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |