Pan Arab Nationalism

Sunni- Shia' conflict

A blood feud between these two major Muslim Sects who disturbed the movements progress greatly by causing trouble by prolonging the union of the Arab countries. DOAN

Socialism

A government that focuses more on providing for the poor by giving some of the capitalist wealth. This idea slowly squeezed all working and bright Arab minds to flee the country. MI

Migration

A lot of the Syrian citizens fled the country to start buisneses else where. PAN

Abdul Nasser

An Egyptian leader who believed in the cause of the Baa'th oarty and wanted the nationalist movement to succeed. An ok leader, but he wiped out a lot of major businesses. MI

Political unrest

For a while Michel Aflaq and the Baath party had succeeded in creating a running government, but the people became tired of their poversh lives and realized that they couldn't get a job because all the capitalist factory owners were gone. MI

Uneducated Masses

Most of the citizens living in Syria were uneducated and could not create buisnesses let alone read. This caused some economic problems within Syria. PAN

My Family

My great grandfather was imprisoned and had his factory destroyed for being a capitalist. He was imprisoned for 6 months as an example to others. (Jedo)

Capitalist Companies

The companies were shut down and destroyed to prevent those with wealth to gain power. PAN

Michel Alflaq

The founder of the pan Arab nationalist movement. Also a member of the Syrian Baa'th party who allied themselves with Egypts leader Abdul Nasser. DOAN

Baa'th Party

The group who led the Pan Arab nationalist movement. WIKI

Violence

The growing problems between the working class and the two muslim sects began to destabilize more causing a great panic. DOAN

Pan Arab Nationalism

The idea of one day untiting all the Arab countries under one union to create a more leaceful living enviroment. Wanted a socialist government leading the Union. Ulitimatley Failed. DOAN

Capitalistic influence

The influence of capitalism shrunk within Syria and Egypt becaus ethe socialist government destroyed all capitalist influence to "support the people." Many cictizens fled to Lebanon and neigboring countries. MI

Doomed to fail

The nationalist party was doomed to fail in the beginning because of their socialist gornment and violent groups who countlessly fought. MI

How could it have been better?

They should have kept capitalist companies going and educated the masses more. They also should have taken precautions to avoid getting involved in the muslim sects fighting. Their biggest mistake was relying solely on Socialist ideas and giving to the people.

The Collapse

When the Nationalist party realized that everything was going downhill, the became desperate and began to call to any educated arab to step up and run the buisneses. But they were all in Lebanon. PAN