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Assignment 4.2

Watch the videos.

Answer the questions

  • What was the consequences of the Easter Rising in Dublin?

  • What was ther esult of the Anglo-Irish agreement in 1921 and what were the consequences of it?

  • Why did Ghandi changed his opinion about British rule in India?

  • What was the main points of Gandhi between the two world wars?

Study the map of Sykes–Picot Agreement and watch the video 'Promises and Betrayals'.

  • Discuss its consequences of Sykes–Picot Agreement

At a Downing Street meeting of 16 December 1915 Sykes had declared "I should like to draw a line from the e in Acre to the last k inKirkuk.

Map of Sykes–Picot Agreement showing Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia, and areas of control and influence agreed between the British and the French. Royal Geographical Society, 1910-15. Signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, 8 May 1916.

Zones of French (blue), British (red) and Russian (green) influence and control established by the Sykes–Picot Agreement. 

Sir Mark Sykes

 The empire on which the Sun never set

A short history of the
British Empire
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