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what to do the former provinces of the former Ottoman Empire which included Palestine

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one solution was to create states

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in Palestine

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to create a home for the Jews

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for a return to the Holy Law

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the Balfour Declaration

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promised to create a home for the Jewish people

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local incumbent populations of Arabs were upset

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both Christian and Moslem Arabs

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they were not being consulted in this process

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how to divide it up

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by the 1930 led to an uprising by Palestinian Arabs against the British

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a dual war against the British and the Jewish settlements

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1936-1939 The Great Arab Revolt

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Jews formed self-defense armies

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villagers would be conducted, also women

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also Jewish villagers and settlers

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a harbinger of tentions to come

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the British military had become an occupying army

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this was not the original function

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was loathed by many

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in Iraq

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also a mandate of the British

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Kurds and Shiites fought for their model of self-determination

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first use of chemical bombs issued from aircraft

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1932 the British forces pulled out of Iraq

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left the state in the hands of a Sunni royal family

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Britain had to try to contain the spread of radicalism and nationalism in distant places

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the Dutch in Indonesia

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had created their colony in Batavia in 1602

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the First World War shattered the confidence in Dutch power

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calls for self-determination began to resonate

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were forced to become increasingly oppressive

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they were finally driven out not by Indonesian insurgents but by Japanese troops

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the Japanese originally greeted as liberators

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after World War I, in many places in the world, former colonies adopted the language of self-determination

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from Vietnam to the Congo

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while in Europe a peace had been declared, much of the rest of the world was in upheaval