Section 1

A British Promise to the French

i Introduction

ii. Situation Prior to August 1914

iii. WW 1 Protecting the Suez Canal

iv. WW 1 Promise 1

v. WW 1 Promise 2

vi WW 1 Promise 3

vii. WW1 The Conquest of Palestine

viii. O.E.T.A.

viii. O.E.T.A.

ix. 1919 Paris Peace Conference

x. Nebi Mussa Riots

xi. The Heroification of Trumpeldor

xii. St Remo Conference

Sir Mark Sykes,
British diplomat.

The Agreement

Britain would collaborate with France and Russia in dividing the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire into areas of future British, French and Russian influence, except for the Holy land which should come under international administration.
(Before the war ended, however, the Russian Revolution had taken place. The new Bolshevik government withdrew from the war so the French and British redistributed the spheres of influence placing Palestine under British influence.)

Picot
Francois Georges-Picot,
French diplomat.

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