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First concerted effort to build for the future: administrative reorganization, settlement of the tribes, establishment of secular education

means to protect strategic interests after Turkey (ally) joins central powers in WWI. Move on to take Mosul & Baghdad through 1918. Ottomans also side with Germany & central powers

Conquest takes four years. Indian model of "white man's burden" which predilects direct rule, is unsuccessful, British must then rely on system of indirect rule using the population to work with them. Sunni officers and gov't officials placed in power by the British remain so until 1958

Three pillars of the Iraqi state - faisal as the king, treaty which was legal basis for british rule, constitution -- integrate elements of population into democratic formula

Failed to take root because iraqis were not given real responsibility and they came to regard it as instrument of foreign manipulation & control

and admission to the league of nations