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The Oxford Companion to British History
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Iraq, which formed part of the Turkish empire, was the scene of heavy fighting in the First World War, the British capturing Baghdad in 1917. At the end of the war the territory became a
mandate under the
League of Nations, though there was a substantial nationalist rising in 1920. From 1921 until 1958, when Faisal II was assassinated, the country was a monarchy. The second Labour government gave notice in 1929 that it would relinquish the mandate in 1932 and in that year Iraq entered the League of Nations as an independent country. The mandate was replaced by an Anglo-Iraq treaty which gave Britain military bases, held until after the Second World War. The attack on Kuwait in 1990 by Saddam Hussein, who had come to power in 1979, led to the
Gulf War, in which Britain sent troops under United Nations auspices. A second war in 2003, undertaken by America and Britain, overthrew the Saddam regime in three weeks but the implementation of democracy in Iraq proved to be difficult and protracted.
J. A. Cannon
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Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/9/2004; ; 700+ words
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Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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War in Iraq (2003)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
IRAQ, RELATIONS WITH Following the signing of...Cooperation with the Soviet Union in 1972, Iraq became Moscow's primary ally in the Arab...came to an end, however, in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, thereby splitting the Arab...
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