What European country took control of most of the Middle East in 1917 and what did they do with it?
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The United Kingdom; they pretty much planted the seeds that made it the clusterf*ck that it is today.
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Europeans had an Alliance with the Jews way back during the time of the Crusaders.  They cooperate to control the European economy.
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1- Petrol\n 70% of the world's production and 90% of it's reserves is to be found in very primitive arab countries (like Saudi Arabia, Quwait, Emerates, Qatar and Lybia). Those so called countries who are not even mature enough to be considered nations are very close to other more important, far more developed, and highly cultured arab countries (like Iraq, Egypt, Syia and Morroco).\n If any super power (let it be the UK or the USA or whoever) wants a steady and secure supply of petrol, then it must make sure that the more developed arab countries will not form a united front (pan arabism) and control the production and sales of the most important resource ever(The commodity that makes armies move, factorys work, etc)\n\nThus, a nation has to be forged to prevent arabs from working as a team by casuing enough trouble to the more developed arab countries, all under acceptable moral cover of course.This nation was Israeil.\n\n2-The Egypt-Syria axis\nAlong history, especialy the past 1000 years,any attempt to unite the arab world had always started by uniting Egypt and Syria(The brain of the arabs). The presence of Israeil right in the middle between the two nations makes such union impossible.\n\n3-Suez Canal\nHe who control the suez canal controls a large percentage of the maritime movement from west toeast and from north to south and vice versa. It is important to have a nation near the canal that can cause trouble to the nation who would missuse it.
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:}\nJerusalem fell under the control of the Greek empire when conquered by Alexander the Great, After is death, the empire was divided into parts among his 4 generals. One of them Seleucid took control of Syria. One of the Greek-Syrian rulers Antiochus Epiphany  attempted to enforce the worship of Zeus the Greek God on the Jews. A revolt resulted led by Mattathias Maccabeus and his sons who eventually freed Jerusalem and the temple from Greek-Syrian control. The Jewish Holiday of  Hanukkah  celebrates that freeing of the temple and it’s rededication to the Lord
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The Jews occupied what is present day Israel prior to the ottoman empire.  The Ottoman Turks conquered the Jews and they fled... mostly to Europe.  Following WW2 they wanted their own homeland so that they could defend themselves from aggression like that experienced under hitler.  Some in England agreed and since Trans-Jordan or palestine was a British mandate following WW2 the Jews were allowed to purchase land from the nomadic palestinians and establish their own state on this land.  The palestinians sold the land not realizing the full ramifications of the Jews creating a nation.  The palestinians now want the land back and the Jews gone.
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World War 1 is a big one.  Australia became  a federation (1901), Russian revolution.
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If you were naive enough to believe what you hear on the news and media, you would think there is an entity called a "Palestinian people," who lived in a "country/state/area" called Palestine since Canaanite/Biblical/Muslim times. You would almost believe that the Israelis occupied "Palestine" in 1967. And you might even think that the Palestinians want the occupiers out of their land. And of course, you might feel, they are entitled to do whatever it takes to get their land back.  No?  No.  Not at all,  Here are the facts. \n\nWho are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War I when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund. \n\nWhat is Palestine? When the Romans conquered Judea, they renamed it Palestine. Since then, no occupying power ever made it an independent state or established a capital in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the province of Syria. \n\nAfter World War I, the area was mandated to Britain to establish a Jewish national home.  Instead, in 1922, Britain split off 75% of Palestine to establish the Emirate of Transjordan, as a throne for the Arabian Hashemite family. \n\nThe UN decided to split the remaining 25% of Palestine between Jews and Arabs.  In 1948, five Arab armies attacked the newborn State of Israel.  Transjordan annexed the area intended for an Arab state, and renamed itself the Kingdom of Jordan, calling the annexed area the West Bank.  Egypt took over Gaza.  No Arab suggested making the West Bank and/or Gaza into yet another Arab state until 1967, when Israel was again attacked by the Arabs and took these areas. \n\nWhether or not she chooses to exercise the right, Israel owns the West Bank by right of conquest and by biblical rights.  Before 1967, the last previous legal owner was the Ottoman Empire. And Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, has never asked for it back.
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Africa. Mediterranean Sea routes were dominated by the Italians and Muslims had cutoff the eastern land routes.
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The primary reason was the US was shocked by WW1 and didn't want to get involved in Europe's problems anymore.  The US was also focusing on a lot of problems at home, including the Great Depression, and didn't want to spend money on foreign affairs.
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SInce around 1917 or so.
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Palestine was actually the home place of the Jews. But after many invasions they were driven out of their place and they migrated to many places.Finally it came under the control of the Ottoman empire.In 1880's the Palestinians in Europe decided to reclaim their homeplace. However during that time 95 percent of the population was Muslim( supported by the Arabs) and very few Christians and Jews. In 1917 the British took control of the place and gave contradictory assurances to both the parties. However during the world war (2 i think) the Palestinians started immigrating illegally into Palestine and their popu in Palestine was significant. The British proposed a division which was rejected by both and since then started the conflict
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What's happening in the Middle East is the continuation of the British imperialist policies of the first half of the XX Century, now carried away by the US government.\nThese policies consist in US support to pro-western, pro-free-market, pro-cheap-oil-contracts arab monarchies and dictatorships (such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Pakistan, etc.), combined with a strict opposition to all arab governments willing to nationalize their own resources and to use them for their countries' benefit. This is seen clearly in the US policy torwards Iraq, in which Saddam Hussein was supported and backed by the US until he nationalized his country's oil companies. Another example is the coup d'etat orchestrated by the US against the Irani prime minister Mossadegh in 1953, which led to him being replaced by the dictatorial and brutal Shah.\n\nThese hypocritical and imperialist policies are the same that have ruled over the entire Middle East ever since the end of WWI, and whose only aim has been to secure western bussiness interests at the expense of the welfare of the Arab peoples.
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Russia had an imperial government before 1917 under the rule of leaders called Czars.
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Depends what you define as Europe.  If it includes Russia then Russia has the most, if not then Germany.  Not sure about Turkey, but i don't think this is in Europe
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Hitler came to power at a time when Germany was defeated (from WWI), weak, vulnerable, in a depression, and looking for someone to blame for their troubles.  The Jews became their primary scape goat, and Hitler became their sense of hope for the future.\n\nGermany decided to take over the world, starting with Poland.  The Soviet Union was initially an ally in Germany's quest, but then Germany attached them as well.  \n\nThe US initially planned to stay out of the war, and that policy held for the first couple of years.  We were dragged in when Japan invaded the US through their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.\n\nThe rest is...well...history.\n\n;-)
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As a result of WWI, Germany got trampled politically and economically.  Germany was forced to pay huge monetary remunerations since it was blamed for causing WWI.  Internally their money was undervalued and inflation was rampant.  One of the parties trying to gain control in the government was the Nazi party.  Hitler came to power in I believe 1933 with promises of a better quality of life, prosperity and (a big factor) a plan to regain Germany's status on the world stage.  He violated conditions set down in the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919.  He built up the military beyond the treaty's limits i.e. built ships bigger than allowed, more tanks than were allowed, planes, etc.\n  Also, he had the idea that someone had to be blamed for the general poverty of the populace.  This was deemed the "Jewish problem".\n    The possible precursor to WWII was his being given the "Sudetenland" in Czechoslovakia.  Instead of the rest of Europe standing up to his aggressive invasion plans, it was thought if he was given some land he'd be happy and go back to his trampled nation.  Well, as we all know, that didn't happen.
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Armenia prides itself on being the first nation to formally adopt Christianity (early 4th century). Despite periods of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia came under the sway of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman. During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey instituted a policy of forced resettlement coupled with other harsh practices that resulted in an estimated 1 million Armenian deaths. The eastern area of Armenia was ceded by the Ottomans to Russia in 1828; this portion declared its independence in 1918, but was conquered by the Soviet Red Army in 1920. Armenian leaders remain preoccupied by the long conflict with Muslim Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated region, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the area in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. By May 1994, when a cease-fire took hold, Armenian forces held not only Nagorno-Karabakh but also a significant portion of Azerbaijan proper. The economies of both sides have been hurt by their inability to make substantial progress toward a peaceful resolution. Turkey imposed an economic blockade on Armenia and closed the common border because of the Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas