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page 1Anglo-Iraqi War
Anglo-Iraqi War
British-led Allied military campaign against Iraq under Rashid Ali during World War II
Gloster Gladiator
1934 fighter aircraft family by Gloster

Farhud
The '''''' () was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum that followed the collapse of the pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani while the city was in a state of instability. The violence came immediately after the rapid defeat of Rashid Ali by British forces, whose earlier coup had generated a short period of national euphoria, and was fueled by allegations that Iraqi Jews h
1941 Iraqi coup d'état
coup d'état
10th Indian Infantry Division
military unit
Fliegerführer Irak
military unit
Special Staff F
cover name for a German military mission to Iraq during World War II
Iraq Levies
military unit
RAF Habbaniya
former Royal Air Force in Iraq
Führer Directive No. 30
1941 directive of Adolf Hitler ordering German support for Arab nationalists in Iraq