ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the creation of Iraq. Iraq was the brain child of Great Britain, and Turkey was created by a revolution of Young Turk Army officers who nearly bloodlessly replaced the despotic sultanate and Islamic caliphate government with a modern secular parliamentary democracy. Great Britain's involvement in the creation of Iraq was sanctioned by the League of Nations but it did so only after several years of diplomatic conflict between France, Turkey, and Britain was resolved. For her efforts, Britain was granted the right to oversee the political and economic development of an Iraq that would include all three provinces under what was a League of Nations mandate system. Britain would also receive mandates over another new state Transjordan and Palestine and continue its protectorate status in Aden and Kuwait. Mesopotamia became the constitutional monarchy of Iraq.
