The Breakup of the Ottoman Empire: French and English Mandates
- "The Sick man of Europe": Ottoman Empire breaks up and becomes Turkey
- French and British divide up the former Ottoman territories into mandates
- Suez Canal and oil are the reasons for their interest
- Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916, gave most of the territory for Britain
- Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Palestine to Britain
- Syris and Lebanon to French
- They set up Arab governments in all mandates except Palestine
Summary
Ottoman Empire was Arab empire that was broken up into 4 mandates and these mandates given to French and British (2 each) who were interested in oil and the Suez Canal. Iraq and Trans-Jordan went to British but the Syria and Lebanon went to French and all had Arab governments except Palestine.