MAPS OF HISTORY · WWI · ALL CHAPTERS · The Sykes–Picot line
Turning point · The Great War, 1914–1918
The Sykes–Picot line
16 May 1916 — The same year as the promises to Hussein, Britain and France secretly rule lines across the post-Ottoman Middle East: “A” for France, “B” for Britain. The Bolsheviks publish the map in 1917. The double promise shapes a century.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The World’s War in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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