ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes violence and genocide along the Middle Eastern Front in the aftermath of the signing of the armistice between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire as a crucial part of the Great War. It disrupts conventional treatments of the period after 1918 in this region as part of the “interwar years” and thus connected primarily to the historiography of the birth of the Mandate System and modern Turkey rather than World War I studies. Widening both the geographic and chronological lens to include the Middle East after 1918 shows how war and peacemaking developed as an overlapping set of processes that ultimately determined how the Great War ended. It concludes by arguing for the importance of studying other cases of violence and genocide in the post-armistice period in order to rethink the geographic and chronological boundaries of World War I as well as the war’s true global reach.
