Standards

__**Framework: History and Social Science**__

WHII.19 Identify the major developments in the Middle East before World War II. (H, E)

 * 1) the end of the Ottoman Empire
 * 2) the Balfour Declaration of 1917
 * 3) the expulsion of the Greeks from Asia Minor
 * 4) the establishment of a secular Turkish state under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
 * 5) the establishment of the Kingdom of Transjordan in the eastern part of the Palestine Mandate by the British
 * 6) the growing importance of Middle Eastern oil fields to world politics and the world economy