The Ottoman Empire entered World War I on October 29, 1914. This followed a series of events including a secret alliance with Germany and the naval bombardment of Russian ports in the Black Sea by Ottoman warships, which was a decisive act leading to the Ottoman Empire’s full entry into the war on the side […]
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World War One begins between the Central Powers of Germany and Austria/Hungary, and the Allies – France, Russia, Great Britain, Serbia, and Belgium. […]
The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence took place between July 1915 and March 1916, between Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, and Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in Egypt.
The correspondence centered on the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and British support for it, with discussions about the post-war recognition and independence of an Arab state in exchange for Arab support against the Ottomans. Part of the promised homeland included Palestine.
The British would later claim that they intended to exclude Palestine from the land promised to the Arabs.
The United Nations does not see there being much controversy. Palestine was part of the land promised by Britain to the Arabs. […]
On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, exchanged between Henry McMahon of the United Kingdom and Hussein bin Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, the rebellion against the ruling Turks was officially initiated at Mecca on 10 June 1916. The primary goal of the Arabs was to establish an independent and unified Arab state stretching […]
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 announcing British support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The statement came in the form of a letter from Britain’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, […]
Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies on October 30, 1918, which ended its hostilities in the war. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was a gradual process, but the armistice marked the Empire’s official exit from World War I and set the stage for its eventual dissolution in the following years. […]
The partition of the Ottoman Empire (30 October 1918 – 1 November 1922) was a geopolitical event that occurred after World War I and the occupation of Istanbul by British, French, and Italian troops in November 1918. The partitioning was planned in several agreements made by the Allied Powers early in the course of World […]
The League of Nations officially came into existence on 10 January 1920. On 15 November 1920, 41 members states gathered in Geneva for the opening of the first session of the Assembly. This represented a large portion of existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world’s population. The League of Nations was the […]
The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious empire with a central government lead by the Sultan in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It had been in existence for 600 years, and at its zenith occupied most of the Middle East, much of south eastern Europe, most of North Africa, and extended well into Asia. The Sultan […]