Ottoman Empire Imperialism

My first theme to choose from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the 2011 against authoritarianism is Zionism. First off, Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people felt that they had a right inherit a rightful state of their own during the end of the 18th and 19th centuries. Jews believed that such a Jewish state should be located around central Europe and even at one time in North America. The decision was later decided that the final resting place was the holy land in Jerusalem, Israel as the Jews viewed this place as the holy land source. This decision did not go over well for the native Arabs who had already been living in Israel in the first place. The Arabs were left to be pushed away by the ideals of western society and with such documents as the Balfour Declaration and Winston Churchill’s White papers. These so called documents were supposed to reassure the Arabs that they could live in peace and harmony with the Jews without any disruption or disturbances. Mandate states were set up such as Iraq, Syria, …show more content…
After WWI the Ottoman Empire nationalism was able to hold ground in Egypt and Turkey, but places like Mesopotamia were unable to realize their goals. Arab Nationalism fell to a mandate system and a regional state system afterwards. This is where we can see the rise of crazy dictatorships such as Suddam Hussein trying to change a countries history and protects its borders out of jealousy.
The rise of nationalism makes it hard to imagine any kind of nationalism without Border States and with so much diversity within so many different tribes. Since the Ottoman Empire was so large and expansive it is hugely impossible to imagine one nation to be proud of and call one singular home which makes the Arab a very mobile society not knowing exactly where to call home or its