As violence continues in the Middle East, the roots of the conflicts in the area can be seen to originate from World War I. ... Before World War I, the declining Ottoman Empire had two rising movements that would begin the conflict in the Middle East. ... After 1918, the Middle East became complicated due to the Balfour Declaration. ... The future of the Middle East would depend on the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ... The negotiations regarding the Middle East were also complicated by opposing goals. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are trenches on the two sides and no man's land with a barbwire in the middle. ... Long Term was worldwide suffering for men and women, a destruction of the class system, breakup of the Ottoman Empire leading to many of the troubles in the Middle East, the humiliation of Germany and therefore the rise of Nazism and Hitler. ...

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Even if they attacked on the West side and lost, then attacked on the East, the French Army was still able to get there. ... He wanted to put all the armor and firepower on the right side of the beach so when the Allies attacked they would destroy everything in the middle and on the left, but wouldn't be able to penetrate the right side. ...

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The importance of water was not only specific to the Palestine campaign, but to the war in the Middle East as a whole. ... This effectively led General Allenby to devise a plan to flank the Turks from the east. ...

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Since Russia lacked a modern transportation system, its slow mobilization would allow Germany to apply a mere defensive force in the east until it defeated France in the west. ... As a large, multinational empire, the Ottoman Empire was plagued by the nationalism of its minority groups, particularly the Arabs of the Middle East. ...

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A moment in time; most people can pinpoint one or two times in their lives when the choices they made had long term repercussions. Such is the case for Briony Tallis in Ian McEwan's book, Atonement. In the book, the concept of maturity is treated masterfully by the shift of a character's perceptions...

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There are no easy answers for America's current unrest, only questions. I have a few. Why Us? I believed at first, as do many people, that perhaps we were attacked because of our policies in the Middle East. I no longer believe that. As Netanyahou said a few days ago, America is not being atta...

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World War One or "The Great War" as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28th June 1914. The assa...

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The Armenian Holocaust was the first genocide of the twentieth century; it decimated the Armenian Christians inhabiting Turkey and accounted for almost ten percent of Turkey's population at that time. History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the Great War; what is often overlooked is the suffering the Armenians endured forty years prior to the war. The aim of this essay is to understand the history prior to the genocide, the reasons for it and the massacres against the Armenians during the war. The first topic to address is the histor...

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