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• During World War I, Great Britain and France agreed to divide large portions of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East between themselves.
• After the war, the “mandate system” gave Great Britain and France control over the lands that became Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine (British controlled) and Syria and Lebanon (French controlled).
• The division of the Ottoman Empire through the mandate system planted the seeds for future conflicts in the Middle East.

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8.what was the league of nations and why did it fail? 

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8.what was the league of nations and why did it fail? 

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• International cooperative organization
• Established to prevent future wars
• United States not a member
• Failure of League because it did not have power to enforce its decisions

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• Bolshevik Revolution and civil war
• Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy
• Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor

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6.why did Russia erupt in revolution while fighting in WWl?

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6.why did Russia erupt in revolution while fighting in WWl?

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• Defeat in war with Japan in 1905
• Landless peasantry
• Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II
• Military defeats and high casualties in World War I

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5.what were the terms of the treaty of Versailles?

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5.what were the terms of the treaty of Versailles?

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• Forced Germany to accept responsibility for war and loss of territory and to pay reparations
• Limited the German military
• League of Nations

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4.what were the outcomes and global effects of WWl?

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4.what were the outcomes and global effects of WWl?

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• Colonies’ participation in the war, which increased demands for independence
• End of the Russian Imperial, Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Enormous cost of the war in lives, property, and social disruption

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• Woodrow Wilson
• Kaiser Wilhelm II

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2.what were the major events of the war?

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2.what were the major events of the war?

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• Assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand
• United States enters the war
• Russia leaves the war

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1.what were the factors the produced WWl?

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1.what were the factors the produced WWl?

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Alliances that divided Europe into competing camps
• Nationalistic feelings
• Diplomatic failures
• Imperialism
• Competition over colonies
• Militarism