What countries was Britain fighting to free from foreign rule in WWI?
Belgium: Britain entered the war as guarantor of Belgian neutrality on 4 August 1914, when Germany ignored an ultimatum from Britain to withdraw its troops from Belgium or face the consequences.Almost all of Belgium was occupied by German forces for most of the war. Serbia: Serbia was overrun and occupied by Central Powers forces in 1916.The Serb army was evacuated to the Salonika front by Allied warships, where it fought side by side with British and French troops for the remainder of the war. Romania: Romania joined the Allies in 1916, but was quickly overrun and occupied by the Central Powers. ‘Israel/Palestine’: Occupied by the Turks since the Middle Ages, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 stated “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” Syria,Iraq, Arabia,Jordan: Under the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence (1915 – 1916), the British broadly agreed to recognize any independent Arab state or states in all or part o
