ABSTRACT
From 1923 to 1932, Britain remained in Iraq as a League of Nations mandate a new system that was more than a protectorate and less than a colony; a sort of semi-colonization, as it were that was developed by the victors of World War I at the urging of US president Woodrow Wilson. A protectorate in international law is considered to exist when a more powerful state assumes the duty of protecting a weaker state from outside pressures or territorial incursions of other powerful nations. Great Britain was granted a League of Nations mandate to govern the three former Ottoman villages that were officially brought together to form the new nation of Iraq. Under this mandate, a constitutional monarchy was imposed upon the region in 1921, with King Faisal appointed as Iraq's first monarch. However, he was forced out of Syria when he ran into strong opposition to his liberal, pan-Arabic policies.
