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Paraphrasing Source 1
The British ended the war occupying the future territories of Iraq, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. This led to Britain being the dominant power in the Middle East region as a result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Russia's internal issues with civil war and foreign intervention, and the French not being present within that certain theatre of war. Britains control of the region has sparked instability in the territories which continues to plague the region to this day, which generates controversy for other great powers in Europe.

Paraphrase Source 2
President Roosevelt and other powerful leaders in the US were able to take the preparedness movement to its most powerful point in 1917. Privately owned military training camps, such as the one in Plattsburgh, New York were being filled with thousands of young men taking up arms against the central powers. The were given basic weapons training and taken through different tactics to be used in combat. Parades for the movement were being held throughout the nation as patriotic emotions for the country was swelling, leading to the lost momentum of the pro-neutrality supporters.

Final Copy
Crucial to US participation was the sweeping domestic propaganda campaign. In order to achieve this, President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information through Executive Order 2594 on April 13th 1917, which was the first state bureau in the United States that’s main focus was on propaganda. The man charged by President Wilson with organizing and leading the CPI was George Creel, A once relentless journalist and political campaign organizer who would search without mercy for any bit of information that would paint a bad picture on his opponents. Creel went about his task with boundless energy. He was able to create an intricate, unprecedented propaganda system that plucked and instilled an influence on almost all phases of normal American life. In the press—as well as through photographs, movies, public meetings, and rallies—the CPI was able to dowse the public with Propaganda that brought on American patriotism whilst creating an Anti-German image into the young populous, further quieting the voice of the pro-neutrality supporters. It also took control of market regarding the dissemination of war-related information on the American home front, which in turn promoted a system of voluntary censorship in the country’s newspapers and magazines while simultaneously policing these same media outlets for seditious content or Anti-American support. The campaign consisted of tens of thousands of government-selected community leaders giving brief carefully scripted pro-war speeches at thousands of public gatherings. Along with other branches of government and private vigilante groups like the American Protective League, it also included the general repression and harassment of people either opposed to American entry into the war or of German heritage. Rumors about a German-induced attempt to start uprising among Black Americans caused a wave of lynching’s to occur in the Southern United States. Other forms of propaganda included newsreels, photos, large-print posters (designed by several well-known illustrators of the day, including Louis D. Fancher and Henry Reuterdahl,) magazine and newspaper articles, and billboards. At the end of the war in 1918, after the Armistice was signed, the CPI was disbanded, yet many of the tactics used by the CPI are still practice and used by governments today.