ABSTRACT
At the end of the First World War in 1918 a series of peace conferences were held to determine the future of the territories that the Allied powers had won from the German and Axis powers. At these conferences the fate of millions of people were to be decided in a series of deals, compromises, agreements and treaties that created new states, new regimes, new political orders, new strategic and economic realities in the Middle East. After the war it was not difficult for Britain and France to persuade the members of the newly constituted international body of the League of Nations, in which they were the dominant powers, to give them authority over the former Ottoman territories in the Middle East that had fallen into their hands.
