British-administered League of Nations mandate created from the former Ottoman vilayets of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul; installed Faisal I as king in August 1921 under continued British oversight.
Gained formal independence and League of Nations membership in October 1932 as the sovereign Kingdom of Iraq, ending the Mandate though British military/treaty influence continued.
Standard survey opening with the British Mandate's creation of the Iraqi state and King Faisal I's installation.
Covers the WWI-era Middle East settlement that produced the Iraqi, Palestinian, Transjordanian and Syrian mandates as a single connected story.