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The Ottoman Empire had long been the 'Sick Man of Europe,' hemorrhaging territory for nearly a century.Lost control of its European possessions prior to the war and, having allied with the defeated Central Powers, lost its Middle Eastern territories afterward
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In June 1916, as head of the Arab nationalists and in alliance with Britain and France, Sharif Hussein initiated the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule.
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Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, laid down the borders of the Middle East as we have known them for a century.The agreement was marked out on a map with grease pencil in a series of straight lines, most likely to create uncomplicated borders.
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In April 1936, what started as minor Arab-Jewish clashes quickly flared into a widespread revolt.During earlier Palestinian Arab uprisings, Jewish settlers often had restrained retaliation under the doctrine of the Havlaga, or restraint.
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Hundreds of thousands of Jews were moving into the area, as part of a movement called Zionism among mostly European Jews to escape persecution and establish their own state in their ancestral homeland
