Answer: Mesopotamia and Palestine
The Ottoman Empire was partitioned after WWI through several agreements made by the Allied Powers, notably the Sikes-Picot Agreement. The partition led to the creation of several new states and of the modern Arab World.
The League of Nations granted French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, and British Mandate for Mesopotamia (later Iraq) and Palestine (which was later divided into Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan).Other territories that were created were the Kingdom of Hejaz, the Sultanate of Nejd and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
It showed that we were in fact NOT crushing the NVA and VC like the news liked to say we were. It showed the true extent of the United States' failure in Vietnam at the time
Restrict the ability of African Americans to obtain voting rights.
The black community experienced much poverty because of prejudice against them in the economic system of the country, so poll taxes could keep them from going to the polls to vote.
Blacks also typically had less access to education than whites even after slavery was ended; thus their literacy rates were lower. So literacy tests were also used to restrict blacks from voting.
Southern states also utilized "grandfather clauses," which were exemptions to things like poll taxes and literacy tests, granted to those whose forefathers ("grandfathers") had full voting rights prior to the Civil War. So if there were poor or illiterate whites, they could vote freely while blacks (whose ancestors had been slaves) were subjected to the laws restricting their voting ability.
These sorts of restrictions against black voters prompted much of the activism of the civil rights movement that began in the middle of the 20th century.
