Allied military units were taking up positions in the territory of the defeated Ottoman Empire. The Empire was certain to lose its Arab lands, but rumor had the Allies partitioning Turkey among themselves.
The Sultan and the government in Constantinople were Allied hostages in all but name. In the interior of the country, though, nationalists regrouped and prepared to resist Allied designs on their homeland.
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Thank you Mark for another insightful episode. Now I know when the Great War really ended.
At the end you mentioned the Senate turning down Wilson’s request to create an administration for an Armenian mandate. I wonder why. Was is due to US populism at the time?
It had to do with war-weariness and isolationism. We’ll be getting into this in more detail when we talk about the United States.