USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On May 19, 1916, representatives of Great Britain and France secretly reach an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire are to be divided into British and French spheres of influence with the conclusion of World War I.

Detailed explanation-2: -The borders of the Middle East were drawn during World War I by a Briton, Mark Sykes, and a Frenchman, Francois Picot. The two diplomats’ pencils divided the map of one of the most volatile regions in the world into states that cut through ethnic and religious communities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet, (born March 16, 1879, London, England-died February 16, 1919, Paris, France), diplomat who represented Great Britain in the so-called Sykes-Picot negotiations (1915–16) concerning the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.

Detailed explanation-4: -The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately ending with the empire’s dissolution and the founding of the modern state of Turkey.

Detailed explanation-5: -The defeated Ottoman empire was dissolved into the Republic of Turkey and several smaller nations, including Yemen, plus the new Middle East Allied “mandates” of Syria and Lebanon (future Syria, Lebanon and Hatay State), Palestine (future Transjordan and Israel), Mesopotamia (future Iraq).