Truk 's location in the Caroline Islands also made it Causation an excellent shipping hub for armaments and aircraft moving Motion from Japan 's home islands down through the South Pacific Mandate and into the Japanese `` Southern Resources Area '' .

During the initial phase in early 1942 , the Empire of Japan invaded Attack the Australian-administered territories of the New Guinea Mandate ( 23 January ) and Papua ( 8 March ) and overran western New Guinea ( beginning Process_start 29/30 March ) , which was a part of the Netherlands East Indies .

During the second phase , lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender Surrendering , the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian and US forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua , then the Mandate and finally from the Dutch colony .

Mahmud Barzanji revolts were a series of armed Bearing_arms uprisings by Kurdish Sheykh Mahmud Barzanji against the Iraqi authority in newly conquered Conquering British Mesopotamia and later the British Mandate in Iraq .

There had been tension and conflict between the Arabs and the Jews , and between each of them and the British forces since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1920 creation of the British Mandate of Palestine .

The 10 months of fighting took place Process_start mostly on the territory of the British Mandate and in the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon , interrupted Hindering by several truce periods .

It was conceived Creating as part of a response Response to Operation Agatha ( a series of widespread raids Attack , including one on the Jewish Agency , conducted Action by the British authorities ) and was the deadliest directed Aiming at the British during the Mandate era ( 1920–1948 ) .

Disguised Wearing as Arab workmen and as hotel waiters , members of the Irgun planted Placing a bomb in the basement of the main building of the hotel , whose southern wing housed the Mandate Secretariat and a few offices of the British military headquarters .