French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon

1923 to 1943.
At the end of the war, Lebanon was occupied by Allied forces and placed under a French military administration. In 1923 the League of Nations formally gave the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France. Although independence had been proclaimed on Nov. 22, 1943, it was not until after another crisis in 1945 that an agreement was reached on a simultaneous withdrawal of British and French troops.