Western Civilization II / Unit 14 WC2 1328 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Mandates, and Atatürk's Turkey
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The idea
The Ottoman lands became League mandates: Syria and Lebanon to France, Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan to Britain, no inhabitants consulted. Iraq became independent in nineteen thirty-two. Sèvres in nineteen twenty partitioned Anatolia; Mustafa Kemal's armies forced Lausanne in twenty-three and a Turkish republic, its minorities expelled or destroyed.
In practice
Atatürk, "father of the Turks".
Where people slip
The anchor's nineteen thirty-nine for Iraq is corrected.
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