NATIONALISM IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST POST WAR NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION

Background to Independence W.E.B. DuBois -Pan African congresses Marcus Garvey Leopold Senphor-Senegal president-poet Negritude Pan-Africanism

In South Africa conflict between races In South Africa conflict between races. A white minority ruled black majority apartheid strict separation of blacks and whites. Bantustans-reservations African National Congress Black nationalist movement and a political party

Arab Nationalism and the Middle East Oil Betrayal by Versailles Treaty Zionism Balfour Declaration 1917 Pan-Arabism

Mustafa Kemal creates a new republic in Turkey Former Ottoman Empire Greek invasion threatens Turkey’s very existence after WW I

“Ataturk”-Father of the Turks Westernization of education, society and economy Secularization of government

Persia Great Britain attempts to take over entire nation after WW I 1925 Nationalist Revolt Shah Reza Pahlavi frees Persia from the British and renames it Iran

Southwest Asia sees major economic change Large oil reserves draw western interest and investment Southwest Asia becomes critical link in energy resources of the entire world.