How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts (Documentary)

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The modern Middle East is a region troubled by war, terrorism, weak and failed states, and civil unrest. But how did it get this way? The map of today’s Middle East was mostly drawn after the First World War, and the war that planted many of the seeds of conflict that still plague Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Syria and even Iran today.

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Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Jesse Alexander
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All Comments (21)
  • @Caveboy0
    My favorite things I’ve learned from this channel is how countries would join the war so they would be present at the peace agreements and benefit from the deal
  • @Masada1911
    Hard to find any mess that wasn’t caused by WW1 somehow.
  • @justcallmeSheriff
    I work across the street from the WWI Museum in Kansas City, and they have an exhibit near the end about the ongoing conflicts that stem from the Great War. I will now be sharing this documentary alongside your one about British Palestine when I try to help others understand how the modern conflict is not some ancient feud.
  • @christophernakhoul3998
    Some clarification. Although in this video it sounds like the French decided to expand Lebanon's borders by themselves it was the Maronite patriarch who suggested the expansion. He wanted farmland for the country, for he feared a second occurence of the Mount Lebanon famine which killed as much as a third of the country
  • @tommy-er6hh
    You missed, like so many do, the struggle for eastern Arabia. People always seem to think the Hashemites of west Arabia were the only arabs fighting. I blame Lawrence's PR. On the east side near the center of Arabia the Nedj (ruled by the house of Saud) were conquering the Ottoman vassal Jabal Shammar in north Arabia. The perfidious British promised Nedj much also, thus setting Arabia up for a postwar fight. In the 1925 after the war, the Nedj Sauds beat the west Arabian Hashemites occupying the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, leading in the 1932 into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • @redheadofepic
    Learning about Lawrence of Arabia and the events in the middle east when I was pretty young and then when I found out the domino effect that happened after the war it was like a revelation to all the current events today, really shocked me then! Glad to see a video on it today❤
  • @onthatrockhewillbuildhisch1510
    What?? No mention of the former Ottoman lands of Yemen and Hejaz which were states set up after 1918! No mention of the Saudi Wars which gave Saudi Arabia its present borders! The maps give the mistaken impression that the Saudis' borders were the same in 1918 as they are today!
  • @audgusto
    Oh how the Great War continues to affect us all to this very day.
  • @K_FI_L_Y_P_S_O
    I absolutely love this channel. Thank you for all the videos you've produced!
  • @johnallen6254
    Britain and France…..making life hard for middle schoolers in geography class the world over
  • Excellent Video thank you
  • @snpr1022
    "The war to end all wars ."🙄😒
  • @Onezy05
    I've always been curious why the Balkans and Middle East had such different trajectories after gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • @lkzhang820
    This channel is excellent at explaining historical backgrounds（at least a part of）of current affair.