Sykes - Picot Agreement

   

 

Question:  Why did the Sykes-Picot Agreement cause such lasting damage to Anglo-French relations?

 

 

Google: What were the consequences of the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

The agreement led to the division of Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various French- and British-administered areas.  Negotiations were begun in November 1915, and the final agreement took its name from the chief negotiators from Britain and France, Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot.

How did Arabs react to the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

For a century, the bitter reaction to the Sykes-Picot process has been reflected in the most politically powerful ideologies to emerge—Nasserism, in Egypt, and Baathism, in Iraq and Syria—based on a single nationalism covering the entire Arab world.

Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create Israel in 1948?

Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create Israel in 1948?  Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering in the Holocaust.  What is Zionism?  The belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times, see Gen. 17!

 

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