The Importance of Decisions in the Middle East

In Africa, Germany's colonies were split up and given out to several of the victorious nations with Britain, France and Portugal all coming out with new territory. In the Middle East, the remnants of the Ottoman Empire were forcefully removed from the control of Istanbul. The British and French would split up the area, drawing the infamous lines on maps which would see the territory split up into countries that are still present in the region today.