Compare And Contrast The War Of The Worlds And Iraq

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War of the Worlds:
WWII and the 1941 Iraqi Coup d’état
Sophia Gatsios

“I am deeply concerned about Iraq …. I think we should now put definitely, not only to Feisal but to the Constituent Assembly, the position that unless they beg us to stay and to stay on our own terms in regard to efficient control, we shall actually evacuate before the close of the financial year. I would put this issue in the most brutal way, and if they are not prepared to urge us to stay and to co-operate in every manner I would actually clear out…..At present we are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.”

Winston Churchill to David Lloyd George on September 1st, 1922 …show more content…

September 1940 had seen the Tripartite Pact uniting Japan, Italy and Germany formally as the Axis Powers. By December of 1940, British forces began counteroffensive strikes against Italian forces in Egypt and Italian East Africa. The German “Afrika Korps” found themselves fighting in North Africa by 1941. Iraq, however, was a unique front of the War as British troops found themselves fighting a coalition of nationalist Iraqi forces encouraged by Nazi Germany, with supplies and routes provided by the Vichy French, all in order to quell a monarchy-absolving coup d’état. Iraq proved to house a fight that had many actors playing on many different levels, indicative of the chaos strewn by the