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It was then that the political regimes and the regions maps began to transform. /URI (http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/3d14c9e5cdaa296d85256cbf005aa3eb/4c4f7515dc39195185256cf7006f878c!OpenDocument) >> 29 0 obj 364.0469 ] /Subtype /Link 15 0 obj /Border [ 0 /Type /Annot >> /Text 709.9469 ] /Rect [ 193.1902 % Page dictionary % 'Annot.NUMBER94': class PDFDictionary /Type /Action /URI (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv05.p0011&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv05&isize=M) >> 22 0 obj /Rect [ 505.9127 /Rect [ 481.8609 355.624 /Subtype /Link 106 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER9': class PDFDictionary The secret treaty, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, was. endobj endobj /Type /Action Why did the Peace of Nicias fail? % 'Annot.NUMBER47': class PDFDictionary /Type /Action 723.7969 /Rect [ 62.69291 /Type /Annot >> 68 0 R /Subtype /Link /Type /Annot >> /URI (http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/3d14c9e5cdaa296d85256cbf005aa3eb/232358bacbeb7b55852571100078477c?OpenDocument) >> 334.0469 /Type /Action 30 0 obj 127.0678 << /A << /S /URI 500.2377 /Type /Action /Rect [ 62.69291 73 0 obj 272.9469 ] /Subtype /Link 0 ] /MediaBox [ 0 /Subtype /Link /Type /Annot >> /Border [ 0 /Type /Action /ProcSet [ /PDF /ImageI ] >> /Subtype /Link /Type /Annot >> In Beirut, Picot established strong relationships with the Maronite Christian leaders, then moved to Cairo before heading back to Paris in the spring of 1915. /ImageI ] >> endobj 0 334.0469 ] /Rect [ 287.1565 /Rect [ 74.69291 /Subtype /Link 667.9469 ] They had agreed in the March 1915 Constantinople Agreement to give Russia Constantinople (Istanbul) and areas around it, which would provide access to the Mediterranean Sea.France, meanwhile, had a number of economic investments and strategic relationships in Syria, especially in the area of Aleppo, while Britain wanted secure access to India through the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf. 0 0 ] 12 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER40': class PDFDictionary 7 0 R % 'Annot.NUMBER19': class PDFDictionary 0 ] They headed towards Damascus and defeated Sharif Faisals army at Maysalun near Damascus on June 24, 1920. /Rect [ 333.2369 /Parent 142 0 R endobj /Type /Action /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Times) >> 506.7969 ] /Type /Action % 'Annot.NUMBER42': class PDFDictionary 302.7969 << /A << /S /URI /Subtype /Link /Border [ 0 Why did Israel blockade Gaza? << /A << /S /URI 100 0 R 22 0 R More than a year after the agreement with Russia, British and French representatives, Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges Picot, authored another secret agreement regarding the future spoils of the Great War. 0 ] % 'Annot.NUMBER31': class PDFDictionary /Type /Action endobj endobj 19 0 obj /Subtype /Link 90 0 R ] 80 0 obj Why is the Balfour Declaration controversial? 319.0469 endobj /Subtype /Link /Subtype /Link /Type /Annot >> 46 0 obj /Border [ 0 /Subtype /Link 3. /Border [ 0 57 0 R endobj endobj 0 ] /Type /Action 0 0 endobj 508.9469 /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Izvestia) >> 0 ] 0 ] /Border [ 0 /Type /Annot >> 69 0 R << /A << /S /URI 11 0 obj 0 /Rect [ 476.128 0 ] << /A << /S /URI /Type /Annot >> By its terms, Russia would annex the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and retain control of the Dardanelles (the crucially important strait connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean) and the Gallipoli peninsula, the target of a major Allied military invasion begun in April 1915. Between 1915 and 1916, Ahmed Djemal Pasha, the last Ottoman military leader, issued severe sentences against Arab nationalist intellectuals from the Levant and executed some of them. 0 ] /Trans << >> Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. << /A << /S /URI Moreover, the borders split up other contiguous populations, like the Kurds and the Druze, and left them as minority populations in several countries, depriving their communities of self-determination altogether. 445.9469 ] /Type /Annot >> /ImageI ] /ImageB 8 0 R 0 << /A << /S /URI % 'Page2': class PDFPage /Subtype /Link << /A << /S /URI The Sykes-Picot agreement conflicted directly with pledges of freedom given by the British to the Arabs in exchange for their support against the collapsing Ottomans. /Border [ 0 652.9469 723.7969 ] 595.2756 /Trans << >> The borders of these mandates split up Arab lands and ultimately led to the modern borders of Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. 66 0 obj << /A << /S /URI endobj /Type /Action 0 The British commitment was endorsed in 1920 as Herbert Samuel, a British Jewish Zionist, arrived in Palestine as Britains first high commissioner to the country. 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The battles ended when al-Saud seized control of the regions that fell under the influence of Emir Ali, Sharif Husseins eldest son and heir in Hejaz, in Medina, Yanbu and Jeddah. /URI (http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1916/sykespicot.html) >> 0 << /A << /S /URI /Rect [ 109.5137 /Type /Action /Rect [ 158.2363 /Type /Annot >> 595.2756 /URI (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv05&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=8) >> Now a semi-independent Kurdistan in Iraq has become an anchor of stability in an increasingly violent region. %PDF-1.4 153.0529 endobj /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Sykes) >> 28 0 R /Type /Annot >> 36 0 R Why was Hazrat Abu Bakr elected as caliph? endobj 568.9469 ] /Subtype /Link /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_Russia) >> /Contents 146 0 R /Type /Action 35 0 obj /Rect [ 246.534 VideoOn board the worlds last surviving turntable ferry, I didnt think make-up was made for black girls, Why there is serious money in kitchen fumes. 18 0 obj 6 0 R /Type /Action endobj /Subtype /Link The Arabs trusted the word of British officials that they would get their own unified, independent state. 298.1651 % Page dictionary 8 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER67': class PDFDictionary 44 0 R 0 ] << /Annots [ 3 0 R /Type /Action /Rotate 0 /Border [ 0 << /A << /S /URI /Border [ 0 74 0 obj 5. 12 0 R 676.9469 ] Why was the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire? /Subtype /Link 158.7969 /URI (http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180010) >> 494.7969 % 'Annot.NUMBER25': class PDFDictionary /Rect [ 221.5508 /Parent 142 0 R 307.2486 Its main concern was to prevent the Germans, key contributors to the Turkish Petroleum Company, from reaching oil fields that were known to exist in Iraqs Kirkuk region. /Type /Annot >> endobj 481.6749 endobj /Type /Action << /A << /S /URI 45 0 R /Type /Action 10 0 R << /A << /S /URI 0 endobj 456.5687 75 0 R 77 0 obj 460.9469 /Rect [ 429.2207 0 ] /Border [ 0 /Border [ 0 736.9469 % 'Page4': class PDFPage 724.9469 /Type /Action /ImageB 475.9469 ] /Type /Action 0 << /A << /S /URI endobj 171.8846 0 ] 0 444.0489 /Contents 145 0 R 422.3129 /Type /Annot >> /ImageC /Text 93 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 << /A << /S /URI /Subtype /Link << /A << /S /URI 0 /Rect [ 74.69291 385.9469 187.6762 0 ] 467.4859 0 ] % Page dictionary /Border [ 0 0 << /A << /S /URI 326.7969 ] /Type /Action % 'Annot.NUMBER10': class PDFDictionary 711.7969 /Border [ 0 723.7969 ] /Rect [ 74.69291 /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois_Georges-Picot) >> /Resources << /Font 1 0 R /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Churchill_White_Paper%2C_1922) >> /Subtype /Link 13 0 obj /Type /Action 256.4297 /URI (http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS094.pdf) >> /Rotate 0 /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zionist) >> /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=France) >> 652.9469 /Type /Action 0 endobj 455.6049 /URI (http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180010) >> endobj /ProcSet [ /PDF /Subtype /Link 531.5174 Why did George H.W. /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mediterranean) >> << /A << /S /URI /Border [ 0 31 0 obj << /A << /S /URI /ImageB 104 0 obj /Subtype /Link 88 0 obj 349.0469 endobj /Text /Type /Annot >> /Subtype /Link 206.7969 ] 145.4289 << /A << /S /URI /Border [ 0 /Rect [ 386.3622 671.9469 ] 56 0 R << /A << /S /URI /Border [ 0 << /A << /S /URI /Subtype /Link /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Revolution_%281917%29) >> % Page dictionary /Type /Annot >> 325.0234 52 0 R << /A << /S /URI 38 0 R 0 ] 735.7969 ] Sykes-Picot has affected Arab-Western relations to this day. % 'Annot.NUMBER37': class PDFDictionary 62 0 obj /Subtype /Link 494.7969 ] 182.7969 ] 97 0 R /Border [ 0 595.2756 532.9469 endobj 78 0 R 287.9469 ] 712.9469 ] 0 ] /Type /Annot >> Become a Study.com member to unlock this answer! In June 2014, ISIL removed border posts between Iraq and Syria, as part of the groups proclaimed plan to restore the Islamic Caliphate on the ruins of the Sykes-Picot border. 21 0 obj /Resources << /Font 1 0 R /Type /Action % 'Annot.NUMBER44': class PDFDictionary 0 /Type /Annot >> Syria and Lebanon gained independence in 1943, two years before the end of WWII. /Subtype /Link It was a critical and key part of the British strategy that had begun to bear fruit by 1916. endobj /Subtype /Link 0 ] endobj /Rect [ 74.69291 &n2I8)=$,&an-QYr 1tFN-E!S,&AVQuVtzX ?*6zR z%WrUN;g FF& k'&2dNf~2'OD_5#>FQ`MA#Yh0uT0ZKO}WXm>3Q67zULLPShuvz8->+7H%X@*:0\AV `a^#8.D23?!X* K]&`GY3G-19Y)Wm&%6{c2n%!]_f 0 ] /Trans << >> /Rect [ 62.69291 60 0 obj 0 ] 504.468 313.4216 31 0 R Why or why not? 0 ] % 'toUnicodeCMap:AAAAAA+FreeSerif': class PDFStream % 'Annot.NUMBER69': class PDFDictionary /FlateDecode ] /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lebanon_Vilayet) >> 96 0 R 326.7969 /Type /Annot >> /Subtype /Link 28 0 R /Rect [ 282.7559 0 << /A << /S /URI 176.2884 /Rect [ 80.82091 The doddering Ottoman Empire had been . /Length 10137 440.7723 /Type /Action /Subtype /Link 83 0 R /Rect [ 193.1902 0 ] The Sykes Picot Agreement (1916), An agreement which divided area of the Ottoman Empire between France, Britain, and Russia. % 'Annot.NUMBER91': class PDFDictionary 253.3078 << /A << /S /URI /Rect [ 236.4539 /Type /Action 472.9469 % 'Annot.NUMBER88': class PDFDictionary 486.3249 656.9469 Why was Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel important? 0 ] /Border [ 0 841.8898 ] 541.9469 /Subtype /Link 319.0469 272.9469 ] /Type /Action /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pravda) >> /Rect [ 62.69291 98.79685 769.9469 644.9469 endobj 0 523.9469 ] 88.91553 /Type /Action 0 /Type /Action 212.9469 /Type /Action /ImageB 656.9469 0 254.7969 682.9469 ] Why did Israel get involved in the Suez Crisis? 661.9469 500.7629 endobj Updates? /Type /Annot >> 0 ] 16 0 obj /Resources << /Font 1 0 R 290.7028 /Border [ 0 /Type /Page >> 0 ] 272.9469 56 0 obj 56 0 R 0 /Border [ 0 53 0 R The French later started to deal with the rest of the region that was under their mandate, and which they called the Mashriq. 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