Unit: Imperialism Topic: Fall of the Ottoman Empire

1. The Crimean War In 1853, the Crimean War broke out between Russia and the Ottomans over control of the Middle East. Britain and France aided the Ottomans to defeat Russia. This war revealed the Ottoman’s military weakness, and it started to lose land to imperialists.

The Crimean War was the first war in which women, led by Florence Nightingale, established their position as army nurses.

2. Goodbye, Ottomans! Goodbye! The Ottomans lost control of Romania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria, as well as lands in Africa. By the beginning of World War I, the empire was reduced to almost nothing. Goodbye!

The Crimean War

3. The Suez Canal Egypt could not afford to pay European bankers the $450 million the canal had cost.

The British insisted on overseeing financial control of the canal, and in 1882 occupied Egypt.