Redrawing the Map of the Middle East in 1920

Watch The Great War on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war 100 years ago at the conference of San Remo, one thing became clear: Great Britain and France wanted control over the Middle East. Justified by the fighting in the previous years and painted as "liberators" of the Middle Eastern minorities, the new map of the Middle East emerged - under the cover of the League of Nations Mandate system.   » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar  Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join   » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.   » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link)   » SOURCES   Karsh, Efraim & Karsh, Inari, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789-1923, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999) “Dans Le Levant” Le Temps, August 31, 1919 issue, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k243751f/f2.item.r=patriarche Lloyd George, David, Memoirs of the Peace Conference, (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1939) vol. 2 “Mounted Rifles Units” New Zealand History, https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/auckland-mounted-rifles/1914 Paris, Timothy J. Britain, The Hashemites and Arab Rule 1920-1925, (London : Frank Cass, 2003) Provence, Michael, The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017) O’Neill, Robert, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume VII - The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914–1918, (Australian War Memorial, 1941) “King-Crane Commission Digital Collection” Oberlin College Library. http://dcollections.oberlin.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/kingcrane/id/722/rec/32 » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net  Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheGreatWarYT Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_great_war Twitter: https://twitter.com/WW1_Series Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel   » OTHER PROJECTS  16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin   »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (https://www.patreon.com/Zalezsky) Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig   Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold   Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020