In the years following WWI, Middle Easterners began to unite in loyalty to their land and fight against the mandates. They pushed for independence due to a growing sense of .....

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

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In the years following WWI, Middle Easterners began to unite in loyalty to their land and fight against the mandates. They pushed for independence due to a growing sense of ____

A	imperialism
B	nationalism
C	Zionism
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Nationalism emerged in the Middle East during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. National identities and nation-building efforts, rather than developing over time as part of new class relations and social formations, became entangled with modernization, colonialism, and imperial redrawing of boundaries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fighting in the Middle Eastern theatres of the war – Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, modern-day Iraq, and Turkey – came to an end with the Armistice of Mudros signed by British and Ottoman officials on a warship in the Aegean Sea on October 30, 1918.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Middle East was directly involved in World War I, and so it was affected by the war in all aspects of life. The most immediate impact was on young men: Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Arabs and others fought as part of the Ottoman army.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the Middle East for Britain, this included Palestine (now Israel and Palestine), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), and TransJordan, (now Jordan). For France, there was Lebanon and Syria. Class B mandates were former German territories in which independence was in the foreseeable future.

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