IRAQ

1919

• History, religion, geography pulled people apart not together
• The Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam has split centuries earlier
• They mainly split over who would
• succeed Muhammad as Islamist leader

CREATING IRAQ

• Britain split the Ottoman provinces of-
• Baghadad
• Basra
• Mosul
• 80 years- under rule of Kings and Dictators

1921

• The British installed and outsider to be king
• Who was a British ally during the war

CHANGES IN POWER

• 1958- monarchy was overthrown
• 1968- Ba'ath Party seized control
• 2003- Saddam Hussein, was topple by the Us, led coalition
• Without a strongman holding Iraq together
• violence has led to the brink of a civil war