POLS 348 week 3

According to Cleveland & Bunton, reform-minded Middle East activists were inspired by which country?

• Japan

• Indonesia

• The United States

• Argentina

What is the CUP?

• A secret Ottoman protest society, and later, a political party

• A secret Iranian merchant society, and later, an activist group

• An Egyptian federalist movement

• An important Iranian oil company

Which country is this?

• Iraq

• Turkey

• Syria

• Iran

The Young Turk movement, led by the CUP, was supported by which groups?

• The Bazaari class, the aristocracy, and foreign lawmakers

• Intellectuals abroad, local students and civil servants, and army officers

• Domestic intellectuals, the secret service, and the royal court

• Local U.S and British operatives

How did the CUP alienate Arabs elites?

• By expropriating oil production facilities

• By nationalizing the land

• By privatizing industries

• By denying notable families access to power

Which country is this?

• Iraq

• Turkey

• Syria

• Sudan

According to Cleveland & Bunton, which of the following ideologies guided the Young Turk movement?

• Islamism

• Nationalism

• Modernism

• All of the above

According to Cleveland & Bunton, which groups supported the Iranian constitutionalist movement?

• Merchants

• Religious leaders

• Radical reformers

• All of the above

Which country is this?

• Iraq

• Turkey

• Saudi Arabia

• Sudan

According to Cleveland & Bunton, the Iranian revolution failed because...

• The groups that supported it had competing interests

• Foreign pressure made it difficult to govern

• An economic crisis made it difficult to govern

• All of the above