Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy

[@GozerB]

I am truly enjoying the history lessons from this era. As many have said on previous video comments, they don't teach American kids any more than, "There was a war. It was bad."

[@cricketsagar]

KhanAcademy, you are an absolute legend. We're doing these agreements in Modern History and these are absolutely brilliant!

[@ahsia85]

thank you for putting the pieces together and the clear and direct explanation.

[@ANDYGONZALES]

A very well-done historical presentation. The start/beginning....

[@sOnIcBo0mBoY]

Everyone should see this... To find a solution; you must first acknowledge the problem.

[@monika1234ify]

I've listened to and learned from your thoughtful videos before in the past about other topical, and I just wanted to say thank you for this one.

[@azizabdelmajeed295]

Sal... You have saved so much students with your video's explaining everything related to school, to the point where I could recognize your voice before I even took the time to know who was making all these video's

[@ilostmypickle]

I really enjoyed the casual way that you put this. It was easy to understand and summarized what I have learned on my own...so far

[@CengalLut]

After watching Khan's video on WW1 in Europe, I wouldn't describe the conflicts in the Middle East as a "bloodshed". Several millions dead in a week... *shiver*

[@mzambo666]

You did well here Khanacademy... a lot of people need to learn this.

[@FRISHR]

Everything changed when the British Empire attacked.

[@Alexa_MorningStar]

And the Avatar disappeared

[@eraser400]

Great video. I'm glad you've speaking about the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence

[@vanmemet]

In Turkey, this historical discourse has been thought throughout the 20th century and is being thought in Turkish Republic Educational System.

[@faheemkhalid4359]

is there anything different facts from this videos ?

[@br1an419]

Thanks, Sal. I'm devouring these videos as they come out!

[@markmarsh27]

So if it WAS primarily the colonial aspirations of France and Britain in the early 1900's that led to the current middle east quagmire, why are they not given a much greater share of the responsiblity to clean up the mess they made?

[@Troublesome2008]

I wonder the same thing. I just watched the big Vice News report about the Islamic State. The IS fighters kept saying "no more Sykes-Picot" after their bulldozer demolished a border control point between Iraq and Syria. That's why I'm watching this video now...

[@INTHEATRIUMofficial]

Troublesome2008 me too !

[@MissConceptions1]

MatrixOfDynamism You are right.. the superpowers who are actually themselves not Christian, have been infiltrating religion for decades in order to exploit it.. civil wars with political agendas and the old tactic of divide and rule. This was perfect for them to go after the Holy Land several times before as you stated regarding the Crusaders. What many fail to realise is that during the Crusades it was the Muslims who acted nobly and just, allowing the Christians to go free, and even escorting them to safety... which is part of the rules of war in Islam. There is a reason why there is so much disturbance going on in the Middle East, and it has nothing to do with religion (as such) but everything to do with Israel's occupation. Even going as far as founding, funding, training and arming terrorist organisations in the guise of Islam. Using the media to propagate this lie and instil fear into the masses in order to create a world full of islamophobes with hate is a nasty, cruel, manipulative and evil agenda to gain support for Israel and condone what they are doing to the Palestinians... however, Israel does not only want Palestine, it wishes to expand its borders way beyond which means stealing more Arab countries, and dismantling the Middle East with wars that they have created, also ensures that the surrounding Arab countries will not be able to attack. The superpowers know they have nothing to fear from the wahhabis in Saudi Arabia as treaties were signed and sealed back in the 1930's to ensure not only protection of Saudi Arabia, but ensure their help and support.

[@osama9659]

MissConceptions1 Oh my God. that was beautiful.

[@Kevin-is-here]

Troublesome2008 me tooooo

[@muminahzahid541]

Thanks needed this for my history essay

[@eblair12]

I agree, it was a messy situation then and now.

[@KafirsAreCool]

Thanks you Sal... This was one of the best non hyperbolic explanation that I have heard. Glen Beck did something similar... too bad we aren't taught the truth... Seems that the UK and France are to blame in this one...

[@pixelpatter01]

The UK and France are not the only ones that share the blame.

[@deepikagazta2367]

really helpful. .... thanku

[@Daves_Cave]

Thank you for this excellent video

[@AsanMasraf]

one more thing I would like to mention as one of big outcomes of Sykes-Picot Agreement is division of Kurds land (Kurdistan) into 4, 5 countries (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and small portions of Armenia) Kurdish people after that they really suffered from those countries government one by one, treating those countries with them by injustices, killing, punishment, genocide, using chemical and biological weapon and so on and so on. if we take a look Iraq kurdish people about over 200, 0000 people killed men and women, also take a look other countries as well they are suffered too much!! all this and more and more because Sykes-Picot Agreement!

[@KafirsAreCool]

this is very sad and disgusting to me as an American.

[@akotrance]

I am not that stupid to mess up my children's life by telling them the Americans are bad there is no need for this but hop there will be peace all over the world every human beings wants is a happy life so I hop things will change

[@imugiilorobert7030]

tell them the truth. im american. tell them we had 3 different presidents over 20 some years and they all had the same puppet master. The war was 100% planned out and executed. Libya was a free radical, shit happens.

[@mohamedabdio1510]

That's you can't have any power in middle East Go with your Jewish brothers

[@abdirazacksergio4636]

Because back in the days kurds were good muslims and backbone of the ottoman and previous Islamic empires. The aim was to crumble and create hate and political wars against muslims which they seem succeed in accomplishing.

[@Zumerjud]

Thanks so much for this

[@ANSARI5X5]

Thank You Salman

[@LiterallyGod]

“No one people should have all that oil” -Kanye Western Allies

[@lrpolo]

THANK YOU !

[@cw4608]

I want to understand how and why the British, French, and Russians got their fingers into this in the first place. This is fascinating information. Thank you.

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

To stop austrian expansion

[@lizab4208]

the people of the United States mostly did not want to go to Iraq and then we up and left and said what a great job we did and then we left billions of dollars of military equipment for the bad guys it's horrifying

[@sischauf]

Lisa, who are you calling "the bad guys"? Follow the MONEY!

[@jeffwirick6099]

It's a masterpiece of 🎨

[@johnnyaingel5753]

Amazing story thank you for sharing this

[@callunas]

Thank you -AP Euro student

[@taam380]

Nicely explained

[@ShnoogleMan]

Think about what would happen if there was no Sikes-Picot - Arabs would get their secular Pan-Arab state - King Faisal's agreement with Chaim Weizmann would have been honored and implemented, allowing for a Jewish state to exist with secure and reasonable borders in Palestine as well as better development across the Arab kingdom - Kurds would become independent - the Saudis and Wahabism would never rise to power, meaning far less Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism - Iran and Arabia would both be secular powers in the Middle East.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

Iran never was a secular power.

[@inbetweentics]

Very good summary. I'm not sure if you have seen this already, but there are a couple of youtube videos from Jonathan Schneer on The Balfour Declaration as well. One is a quickie summary on BookTV and the other is very in depth, you might like. He is not a good speaker at all, but his research is good, so the bad speaking on it is forgivable.

[@Staint12]

right...

[@emreus1]

.instant subscription.

[@fredericbastiat1736]

No, sometimes it was, "There was a war, it was good."

[@apx24]

All this makes me ashamed to be British

[@jeromesassani9537]

I think the WWI mentality of most European countries was the same. It was even worse for those countries lacking enlightenment.

[@mm4192]

@Micheal Hnat what's Bantu?

[@thehonesttruth415]

actually it makes me proud because it benefited us alot and the arabs got their liberation.

[@SR-mv2mf]

Be better now atleast. No point in regretting the past.

[@ahmadjaber1719]

@@thehonesttruth415 Huh?, so as long as it benefited you it doesn’t matter who you screwed over

[@VVeltanschauung187]

Austria signed a defensive pact with Germany, which Germany reconfirmed by declaring that the German Empire was bound to stand by her allies even if they started a war. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria declared war on Serbia after his nephew was assassinated by the Black Hand. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany sent a courier to Austria advising Franz Joseph I to *not* declare war, as it would involve an entanglement of alliances and bring about a bloody war. Throughout the whole 'Great War', the German Empire wanted peace and had nothing to gain from the conflict whatsoever. Even if Germany was on its way to win the war in December of 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm II offered to negotiate peace with the Triple Entente. By December of 1916, Germany had a clear advantage; France had suffered horrible losses and Russia faced internal Bolshevik/Communist uprisings and revolutionary chaos & had to withdraw troops. Britain was under the U-Boat blockade and not 1-inch of Germany had been occupied. Yet, Germany was still offering generous peace terms. Kaiser Wilhelm II was ready to call off the war and return the entire continent to how things were before. That was, until the zionists Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow approached the British with a dirty deal. They offered to use their global influence to bring the United States of America on Britain's side, while undermining and destroying Germany from within. In exchange for American entry into WWI, the British would steal Palestine from the Ottoman Empire (which was Germany's ally) and allow the zionists to settle there. This deal is called the Balfour declaration and it was delivered to the Baron Walter Rothschild. Zionists in London then sent messages to Louis Brandeis, one of the zionist members of the Supreme Court, instructing him to pressure President Wilson to join the war. Other zionist power brokers such as Bernard Baruch, Paul Warburg, and Jacob Schiff, also pressured America to join. The British government agreed that they would support a zionist homeland in Palestine in exchange for the powerful zionist lobby in America getting the USA to join the Allies. American entrance into the war was then carried out as promised. Lord Balfour was assuring the zionists that Britain would fulfill its end of the deal after the war had ended - the theft and overthrowing of Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. After the deal was made, hebrew-owned media immediately unleashed a ton of anti-German propaganda, depicting the Germans as barbaric Huns. This was done to get the public support for American intervention in the war, while the zionists and ethnically hebraic Marxists of Germany started to destabilize Germany from within, through several strikes within the arms industry factories, which weakened the German war effort. Before more European blood would be shed on European soil, both Germany and Austria-Hungary, again asked for a peaceful resolution. Wilson was forced to admit that Germany and Austria-Hungary had indeed expressed general peace proposals, but he casually dismissed them all. Lying about how beautiful the postwar peace was going to be like, Wilson managed to trick so many war weary Germans into an unconditional surrender, and disarmament, in November of that same year, 1918.

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

How do you know?

[@Staint12]

ohh right..

[@NukaColaKris]

Henry McMahon is a direct ancestor of mine, and so wanted to find out more information.

[@lizab4208]

don't be hating the people hate our government like we do

[@TRYCLOPS1]

You are not British! You're a human being! You shouldn't be ashamed of things you did not do. Governments and rulers have done these things to all of us.

[@rookincharge2780]

Sound is very low.

[@kamoflaje87]

Sorry if this seems like a silly question but why was the British empire threatened by the ottoman empire?

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

The brits had to distract constantinople so they could focus on the mighty germans

[@zvi303]

Offhand, I think we are better off than if they were united. Of course, if they had agreed with the Sharif and his agreement with Chaim Weizmann for the Jews and Arabs to support each others' movements, AND the Arab movement continued to support Israel, then things would rather good and the whole area would be quite prosperous and have no need to fight each other. Note that "Arab" and "Islam" are not synonymous. This is not the Chalifa.

[@ihsanbajwa3974]

سائیکس پیکوٹ معاہدہ 1916 میں برطانیہ اور فرانس کے درمیان خفیہ طور پر طے پایا جو کہ جنگ عظیم اول میں ممکنہ طور پر خلافت عثمانیہ کے ٹوٹنے کے بعد مشرق وسطی کی علاقائی تقسیم کے بارے تھا۔۔۔۔۔۔۔کیا یہ معلومات درست ہیں؟؟؟؟؟

[@opoop0l551]

Yes

[@ihsanbajwa3974]

@@opoop0l551 بہت شکریہ نوازش آپ کی

[@alijahwashington7476]

what was the three agreements? I’m confused

[@Staint12]

Southeast Asia is divided because its easier for the european powers to govern them.. Its almost similar like the arabs countries now..

[@GozerB]

Indeed. :-)

[@savage3125]

hi

[@ahhu.]

Not their land to give

[@Staint12]

Why is that a good thing?

[@zvi303]

India - Pakistan was to avoid them from killing each other, and it doesn't seem to have helped.

[@LiterallyGod]

“National Home” HA

[@charlessmyth]

I was limiting myself to the Arab language.

[@nebucalan]

This was a big blow for Turks during WW1 which they felt like they backstabbed by Arabs. Well done to British for succeeding what they aim.

[@purplezart]

Is it just me, or does it sound like Sal moved back into his closet to record this one?

[@philipmulligan26]

Is this DJ Vlad?

[@noahriding5780]

A national home IS a state. In the video you said this wasn't the case. But regardless, the irony is that everyone except Great Britain is getting the heat from the fallout from this. And can you really say you own a land, if you bought it with blood? That is in my mind the real issue. Everyone is and has won their land through blood and fighting. The people they've fought if they ever get strong again will want what they lost. And many major powers have gone through Palestine at one point or another, and therefore could claim they own it... but again own it by blood. So how to reconcile that this or that group really owns it. God owns it and he gave it to the J e w s. But its also true that it doesn't have to be the case that the Arabs have to go homeless. There should be a way to make it so both Arabs and others can have a place to live. You can terraform the desert, and also great canals and desalinization plants to make the desert blossom as a rose. That then lets many people live there and able to thrive. 2 sides don't have to compete, but could build instead. But people don't want to do that. They'd rather fight than work together. And a 2 state solution doesn't work because both sides just end up competing and using their strength and resources to 'compete' rather than to build or create. IN the end both states in 2 state solution, which is what you have now are spending their strength in war instead of learning to build. Create. Engineer.

[@lizab4208]

I want to go take our stuff back and what I can't take I wanted to disabled or blow up if I did that and I came back to the United States they call me a terrorist

[@dilic]

but you should go even beyond this. As Khan said, this is just what he thinks has happend. So also do your own research and share your findings with us. only then we will find the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And this is very important to have a WHOLE truth. Because imho "half truths" are worse than lies.

[@udiudi11]

Jack Straw - there wasn't a SINGLE Palestinian at the time of Balfour. They were all Arabs. The term Palestinian (or Palestinian People) started around 1975. Before Israel came into being, Palestinian was the NATIONALITY of BOTH the Jewish people & the Arab people living under the British Mandate for Palestine.

[@udiudi11]

+james gandolfini - I don't understand what you want from my life... these are the FACTS. Unlike you I lived with (=next) to them. I remember how they call themselves. . I even supported them - stupid me.

[@rubico1894]

There wasn't a single Israeli before 1948 either. Identities are complex formations. What we know as Palestinians today are people who are bonded to that land either now, or were, through their past family members. Also, it's understandable that Israel was engulfed in conflict when it was made. The whole of its design was ill conceived. The Arabs rose up against the Ottomans because they were promised the whole of the pie if they did. They didn't want to give it to anyone British or otherwise. But, then they were betrayed and occupied. That explains one reason why the Arabs were stubbornly opposed to any deal the Jews and English wanted to make with them.

[@zvi303]

An Arab is someone who speaks Arabic. You have a different definition?

[@charlessmyth]

There is no such language as Arabic per se, beyond there being a line of verbal and written communication that is Arabesque in its nature. The same applies to those who can be grouped into that category for the convenience of categorization as a racial type and may be cynically misused to promote a pan-Arab ultra-nationalism between competing tribes and variations of Islamic ideology. If one must cite Arabic as a defining factor,, it is best represented by the Egypt..

[@Ditiro100]

I GOT FIRST!

[@charlessmyth]

You are falling prey to the convenience of the cherry picking of convenient particulars, to support a general and erroneous argument. Arabs account for a small percentage of that which is lumped into the convenience of categorization as the Arab world, that is represented internationally, by an even smaller group, in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, who are under the protectorate of the US, in lieu of Britain and/or France.

[@ianbarr5110]

Typical British colonial way of doing business. What they wanted was the oil and Sykes made sure they got it. Promises here and there to the Arabs and the Jews because it suited their overall strategy to ensure the safety of the Suez canal. A secure passage to India. The Jewel in the Crown. Then Balfour didn't mention the Arabs ( non Jews ) in his declaration as it's also Ambiguous because that what they always did. The declaration has many rewrites to ensure it was ambiguous. To top it all the British gave the Jewish minority the majority of the land. The majority Arabs got what was left. This is a British disaster. They did the same with the India and created East and West Pakistan. Muslims and Hindus at war. Close to home they did exactly the same in Ireland and you wonders why they caused the Troubles. They were and are the Problem. It's their colonial Arrogance that is still relevant to this day.