Break up of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
The break up of the Ottoman Empire is driven by the French and English so they can be involved in the Suez Canal and Oil
- "The Sick man of Europe."
- The Ottoman Empire breaks up and becomes Turkey
- The French and English divide the Ottoman Empire into mandates
- Sykes- Picot agreement, 1916, was an agreement that gave most of the land to the British
- The British received Iraq, Trans Jordan and Palestine
- Syria and Lebanon went to the French
- They set up Arab governments in all mandates except Palestine