HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Read all choices! Choose the best answerThe Sykes-Picot Agreement ____
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drew the borders for the new countries created in the Middle East
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was between Great Britain and France
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was a secret agreement
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1916, the British and French made this secret agreement in order to decide on who would take control of the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire once the First World War was over. The agreement was named after the negotiators Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges Picot.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sykes and Georges-Picot were charged with figuring out how. The agreement they came to-with the assent of their ally Russia-granted Russian control over present-day eastern Turkey. The French would influence or control southern Turkey, Lebanon, present-day Syria, and Northern Iraq.
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