One of the most prominent leaders that the British looked to for help was Sharif Hussein, the ruler of Mecca and part of the Hashemite clan, the same as Mohammad. Looking for any possible allies to put more pressure on the Ottomans, they sought the Arabs for help. The Australians, New Zealanders, and the British tried to capture Istanbul, but their armies were soon bogged down and had to withdraw. The second such failure meanwhile, was the Campaign of Gallipoli, which lasted from December 1915-April 1916. The first failure was in Iraq, which ended with the successful Ottoman siege against British troops at Kut, lasting from December 1915-April 1916. This strategy failed spectacularly in two different campaigns against the Ottomans. The Allies decided to open a new theater against the Ottoman Empire because they were considered the weakest of the Central Powers, and were also known as the “ Sick Man of Europe”. This situation convinced the British Empire to try and open up new theaters of conflict to disperse the enemy forces. At the beginning of the war, the Allies were in a stalemate as the British and French were stuck in trenches against the Germans on the Western Front, while Russia had setbacks and draws of its own on the Eastern Front against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The history of the Arab Revolt takes place in the First World War where the British were fighting the Central Powers who included not just Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria but also the Ottoman Empire. Background of WW1 and Broken Promises by the British Map of World War One by This article discusses the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and its aftermath and demonstrates how the British betrayed the Arabs. However, the impact of the First World War on the Ottoman Empire and Arab World, and its aftermath in how the maps were redrawn in favor of the British is rarely mentioned. The treaty left a vengeful Germany and an upset Italy who would later start the Second World War, an even more destructive conflict than the first. Along with these innumerable deaths, its aftermath made things even worse as the Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and the Central Powers laid the seeds for potential conflict. The First World War (WWI), also known as the Great War, was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history, killing millions. By: Christian Jimenez/Arab America Contributing Writer
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