THE ALLIED INVASION OF IRAQ & SYRIA

8 JUNE—14 JULY 1941 2 MAY 1941 British troops occupy Basra and the oilfields of southern Iraq. 10 MAY 1941 London experiences the heaviest air raid of the Blitz. 20 MAY 1941 German paratroops begin the invasion of the island of Crete. 3 JUNE 1941 Anti-Jewish rioters in Baghdad murder Jews and destroy Jewish shops. 11 JUNE 1941 Roosevelt agrees to station US troops in Iceland to replace a British garrison. 12 JULY 1941 Britain and the Soviet Union sign a mutual aid treaty in Moscow. With German forces in the Balkans and pressing forward in the Western Desert, British leaders became anxious that the position of British interests in the Middle East, particularly oil, which was vital for the whole war eff ort in the Mediterranean, might be threatened…

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