Name three states that the French and British created that did not reflect realistic divisions of the Middle East. Briefly explain what occurred because of these state creations

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• North Africa was completely dominated by Britain and France.
• Libya was divided into British and French sections, and it did not become independent until 1951.
• In 1969 Colonel Muammar Gadhafi seized power in a military coup, claiming Libya as an anti-Western socialist state.
• Egypt achieved its independence before World War II but did not fully break with Britain until Gamal Nasser took power in 1954.
Gadhafi sought to follow Nasser's footsteps but broke with Egypt after Nasser's death in 1970.
• Syria was under French rule from 1922 to 1946.
• After several military coups and a failed attempt to form a united republic with Egypt, a group of pan-Arabic socialists, the Baath Party, seized power in 1963.
• Aside from internal problems, Assad believed that Lebanon and Palestine were rightly part of Greater Syria.
• Lebanon has become one of the most violent regions in the area.
• Ruled by France until 1943, the government of Lebanon managed a delicate balance of people with many different national and religious loyalties.
• In 1948 when Palestinians displaced by Israel began flocking to the country, the delicate balance was destroyed.
• Lebanon has suffered internal conflict ever since, including civil wars in 1958 and 1975–1976, continued fighting to 1978, an Israeli incursion in 1978, another Israeli invasion in 1982, Iranian revolutionary intervention from the 1982 Israeli invasion, a fragile peace in 1990, and the growth of a terrorist militia from 1983 to 1996.
• Several large militias still roam the countryside, despite their agreement to disarm by the terms of the 1990 peace plan.