World War One begins between the Central Powers of Germany and Austria/Hungary, and the Allies – France, Russia, Great Britain, Serbia, and Belgium. […]
France
1916 – Sykes-Picot Agreement
The French and the British Make a Secret Agreement Dividing up the Land Promised to the Arabs
The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. France and British representative signed the agreement a year after the Hussein-McMahon […]