1915 Husayn-McMahon Correspondence

1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement

1917, April: Russian Revolution, opening war secrets; US joins WWI

1917 September: British troops in Palestine

1917 November: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Russia to pull out of WWI

        November: Balfour Declaration

        December:  British troops take Jerusalem

1916-1918 Arab Uprising

Sharif Husayn of Mecca

Faisal

1918 October:  British and Arab troops take Damascus, Faisal announces Arab Kingdom

        October: Ottomans surrender

Post-War

Mandate

France takes Damascus, June 1920; Faisal transplanted to Iraq

Ottoman lands occupied:

Britain: Palestine, Transjordan (Abdullah), Iraq; area around Istanbul

France: Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey

Greece:  invaded Anatolia in 1920 to seize Izmir region

Treaty of Sevres: plan to divide Ottoman territories, set up independent Kurdish and Armenian states

Turkish Committee for Defense of Rights, Ankara

1922 Turkish army defeated Greeks

1923 establishment of the Republic of Turkey, under Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)