Final Exam Study Guide
Final Exam Study Guide:
-Starting from the end of WWI discuss the development in the parts of the Ottoman Empire that today make up Turkey. This questions requires you to discuss the allied occupation, the Sultan’s decisions, the resistance, the resistance, rise of Mustafa Kemal, the grand national assembly…. All the way through to the treaty of Lausanne.
After the End of World War I, the former Ottoman Empire was occupied by Allied forces who occupied the entire area of modern day Turkey. The former Sultan of Ottoman Empire Mehmet VI Vahideddin had lost almost all of his power. Vahideddin dismisses parliament in 1918. The Treaty of Serves was signed in 1920 which allowed for a separate Kurdish and Armenian state to be established (but not guaranteed) as well as an Allied occupation of the Turkish straits (known as the Dardanelles) and the land surrounding it, and finally the Greeks were given the right to administer Izmer and control of Thrace. Hoping to be able to obtain a small portion of land for his "new empire" the Sultan signed the Treaty. The Sultan's new government was officially set up in Istanbul. This collaboration with the West angered a large number of the Sultan's "subjects." Due to this anger towards the Allied occupation and the Sultan, a number of resistance groups were established and attacked the Allied occupiers all around modern day Turkey. The resistance groups collectively called themselves the "Defense of Rights." When the Greeks arrived in Izmer, they immediately began to push past their designated territory and began a brutal campaign pushing into the Anatolia. This campaign, which harmed lots of civilians, had the Defense of Rights group start fighting the Greek forces. While this was going on, an officer in the former Ottoman Army named Mustafa Kemal(ethno-nationalist), gathered a number of members of the Defense of Rights movement(which he led) and former CUP officials to Ankara to form the Grand National Assembly in 1920.
-Starting from the end of WWI discuss the development in the parts of the Ottoman Empire that today make up Turkey. This questions requires you to discuss the allied occupation, the Sultan’s decisions, the resistance, the resistance, rise of Mustafa Kemal, the grand national assembly…. All the way through to the treaty of Lausanne.
After the End of World War I, the former Ottoman Empire was occupied by Allied forces who occupied the entire area of modern day Turkey. The former Sultan of Ottoman Empire Mehmet VI Vahideddin had lost almost all of his power. Vahideddin dismisses parliament in 1918. The Treaty of Serves was signed in 1920 which allowed for a separate Kurdish and Armenian state to be established (but not guaranteed) as well as an Allied occupation of the Turkish straits (known as the Dardanelles) and the land surrounding it, and finally the Greeks were given the right to administer Izmer and control of Thrace. Hoping to be able to obtain a small portion of land for his "new empire" the Sultan signed the Treaty. The Sultan's new government was officially set up in Istanbul. This collaboration with the West angered a large number of the Sultan's "subjects." Due to this anger towards the Allied occupation and the Sultan, a number of resistance groups were established and attacked the Allied occupiers all around modern day Turkey. The resistance groups collectively called themselves the "Defense of Rights." When the Greeks arrived in Izmer, they immediately began to push past their designated territory and began a brutal campaign pushing into the Anatolia. This campaign, which harmed lots of civilians, had the Defense of Rights group start fighting the Greek forces. While this was going on, an officer in the former Ottoman Army named Mustafa Kemal(ethno-nationalist), gathered a number of members of the Defense of Rights movement(which he led) and former CUP officials to Ankara to form the Grand National Assembly in 1920.