WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Iraq and Palestine (including modern Jordan and Israel) were assigned to Great Britain, while Turkish-ruled Syria and Lebanon went to France.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Sykes-Picot Agreement, drawn during the war in 1916, divided the region into spheres of influence between the British and the French: roughly, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq were designated British while Lebanon and Syria were assigned to the French, should the Allies win the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -The dominant political force in the Middle East and the broader Muslim world in the centuries before 1914 was the Ottoman Empire. The history of the Ottoman Empire began in the late 1300s and lasted until the end of the First World War.

Detailed explanation-4: -After World War I, Syria and Lebanon became a French protectorate under the League of Nations Mandate System, a move that was met immediately with armed resistance from Arab nationalists.

Detailed explanation-5: -The fighting in the Middle Eastern theatres of the war – Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, modern-day Iraq, and Turkey – came to an end with the Armistice of Mudros signed by British and Ottoman officials on a warship in the Aegean Sea on October 30, 1918.