The Sykes/Picot Agreement, signed in 1916, played a significant role in dividing the Middle East between France and Britain after the Ottoman Empire's collapse.
I FIND it quite astounding that no reference whatsoever is made to the indisputable origins of the latest controversial wranglings in the Middle East, and without favouring one side or the other in the current ongoing upheaval, the historical input of Great Britain cannot be denied.
On April 6, 1917, President Wilson of the United States declared war on the German Empire after it became known that the Germans had made a secret offer to help Mexico regain territories lost in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Spanning nearly 600 miles, the Iraq Petroleum Company under British supervision constructed an oil pipeline to connect the Mosul oil fields to the Mediterranean coast at Haifa. The lands through which the pipeline stretched were all under British mandate. By 1940, the Iraqi fields produced four million tonnes of oil per year, Britain’s share of overall production supplying 5% of domestic needs but full requirements of its Mediterranean fleet.
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