USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The First World War brought about the collapse of four multinational empires – the Russian empire in 1917, and then the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires in 1918.

Detailed explanation-2: -During a period of decline, the Empire lost much of its territory in southeastern Europe and the Balkans. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, leading to the establishment of the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923 and to the creation of other new states in the Middle East.

Detailed explanation-3: -In November 1917 the war in the Middle East was overshadowed by the disclosure of the Sykes-Picot Agreement by the new Russian Bolshevik regime. In this secret 1916 deal, Britain and France had agreed to divide the Ottoman Empire’s Middle Eastern territories into their own zones of influence after the war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ottoman Empire disintegrated and was partitioned after its defeat in World War I. The empire had already been in decline for centuries, struggling to maintain a bloated bureaucracy or a centralized administrative structure after various attempts at reform.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ottoman casualties of World War I, the Ottoman Empire mobilized a total of 2.6 million men. It lost 325, 000 men and 400, 000 were injured. 202, 000 men were taken prisoner, mostly by the British and the Russians, and one million deserted, leaving only 323, 000 men under arms at the time of the armistice.