The document summarizes key events in the Middle East from 1914 to 1922, including the Hussein-McMahon Letters which outlined British support for Arab independence, the Sykes-Picot Agreement dividing the region between Britain and France, the Balfour Declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and the establishment of League of Nations mandates after World War 1 over former Ottoman and German territories in the Middle East, Africa, and Pacific.

1. New Nations, New Problems: 1914-1922 Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

2. The Middle East in 1914

3. Hussein-McMahon Letters: 1915-16 ....Britain is prepared to recognize and uphold the independence of the Arabs in all regions lying within the frontiers proposed by the Sharif of Mecca.... Hussein ibn Ali, Sharif of Mecca

4. Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916

5. Balfour Declaration: 1917 Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild. I have much pleasure to convey to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations {hopes} which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. “ His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate {assist} the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine , or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours sincerely, ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR British Foreign Secretary

6. The British Mandate in Palestine: July, 1922

7. League of Nations Mandates in the Middle East

8. Versailles Settlement in Europe

9. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918: Delivering the Goods

10. German Territorial Losses: 1919-1921

11. German Pacific Colonies Lost After WW I

12. League of Nations Mandates in Africa

13. New Nations: 1923